Elvira Quintana
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Spanish-born Mexican actress, singer, and poet. her family migrated to Mexico when she was 5 years old. She began her career working in theatre and later participated in films as an extra. Her first important role was as Carmen Ochoa in "Una solución inesperada", a segment of the drama film Canasta de cuentos mexicanos (1956). She then enrolled in the National Association of Actors' theatre and film institute (Instituto Teatral y Cinematográfico). She was given her first starring role in El buen ladrón (1957) before her breakthrough in Bolero inmortal (1958), in which she debuted as a singer; the film's soundtrack album, for which she recorded songs, was a commercial success throughout Hispanic America. She starred opposite Pedro Armendáriz, her favorite actor, in Dos hijos desobedientes (1960). Greatly admired by audiences for her beauty and talent, she became one of the most popular Mexican performers of the 1960s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montijo, Spain
Birthday: November 07, 1935
Deathday: August 08, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Diabolical Kidnapping
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Tres Romeos y una Julieta
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Los años verdes
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Póker de reinas
Overview: A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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Los derechos de los hijos
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-17
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La divina garza
Overview: Film of 1963 directed by Humberto Gómez Landero, starring Elvira Quintana, Manuel Capetillo and Joaquín García Vargas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-28
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Basket of Mexican Tales
Overview: Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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800 Leagues Over the Amazon
Overview: Family builds a houseboat and sets sail down the Amazon. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-03
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Se alquila marido
Overview: Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-30
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Gutierritos
Overview: Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Dos hijos desobedientes
Overview: Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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La ley de las pistolas
Overview: Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-26
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Tres muchachas de Jalisco
Overview: Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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El Siete de Copas
Overview: Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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Bolero Inmortal
Overview: Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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Me llaman el cantaclaro
Overview: The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.
Genres: Comedy Western Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Lástima de ropa
Overview: Millionaire goes slumming, meets a girl...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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Duelo indio
Overview: A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-12
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Una pasión me domina
Overview: Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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El caudillo
Overview: Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-10
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El vendedor de muñecas
Overview: A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-03
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The Curse of the Doll People
Overview: Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-13
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Las tapatías nunca pierden
Overview: An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-22
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Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
Overview: An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of American football and moral rectitude. You ain't gonna sire no babies out of wedlock on Father Lambert's watch, no siree!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Los tigres del ring
Overview: Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-03-30
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El misterio del carro express
Overview: Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-07-22
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The Cha Cha Cha Widows
Overview: Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then...
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
Overview: Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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Bonitas las Tapatias
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-14
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Las canciones unidas
Overview: Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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Tintansón Cruzoe
Overview: Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-30
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Tres palomas alborotadas
Overview: Controlling papa won't let his daughters have boyfriends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-05
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Amor a balazo limpio
Overview: Hired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.
Genres: Music Comedy Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-10
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¡Viva Benito Canales!
Overview: Campesino with leadership qualities is indecisive about whether he should join the Revolution or concentrate on improving conditions at his farm, also about whether he cares about the nice girl he grew up with or the fancy woman who runs the local brothel. Most of his plot points don't come to a head until after the revolution's over, and then after General Huerta's coup.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-08
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El vestido de novia
Overview: A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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Peligros de juventud
Overview: Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-07-26
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Each child, a cross
Overview: Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-09
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Dios no lo quiera
Overview: A beautiful young woman from the neighborhood falls in love with two rude men, one good and the other bad.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-30
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El tiro de gracia
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-02-15
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La mafia del crimen
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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El pueblo sin Dios
Overview: Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-17
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Lo que le pasó a Sansón
Overview: Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-10-06
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Melodías de amor
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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