María Elena Marqués
Also Known As: Мария Елена Маркес, Мария-Елена Маркес, María Elena Marqués Rangel
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, México
Adult: No
Birthday: December 14, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 11, 2008
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Across the Wide Missouri
Overview: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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Tom Thumb
Overview: A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
Overview: Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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Doña Bárbara
Overview: A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-16
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El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
Overview: A landowner indirect kills another because of false rumors. Time passes. The son of the dead want the offender to pay their share. It becomes generous bandit, but then he meets the daughter of his enemy and falls in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-09
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The Crying Woman
Overview: A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-11-17
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The Young Animals
Overview: A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-16
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Capullito de alhelí
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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A Media Luz Los Tres
Overview: "Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-26
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La razón de la culpa
Overview: Romantic comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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Gema
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Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-20
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Dos corazones y un tango
Overview: An Argentine arrives in Mexico and finds his vocation in music, succeeding as a tango singer. At the same time, he tries to conquer a capricious Mexican, who at first seems distant, slapping him, but she ends up kissing him.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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La trepadora
Overview: Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-09-21
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Me he de comer esa tuna
Overview: In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-01
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Cinco fueron escogidos
Overview: Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different cast (at least in major roles). Sadly, this film, usually referred to as "Five Were Chosen" but sometimes called "Hostages" (not to be confused with the somewhat similar 1943 Hollywood movie with that title), appears to be lost. García Riera indicates the English-language version was screened in Mexico, at least for the press, but does not seem to have been released commercially in the Mexico or the USA. Since Herbert Kline was well-known for his leftist views, it's not surprising to note that many of the imported Hollywood actors were also left-leaning (and in fact more than one was blacklisted during the Red Scare era).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-07-08
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Cuando levanta la niebla
Overview: One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-23
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Así se quiere en Jalisco
Overview: Romantic triangle, land-owner and two employees.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Little Town
Overview: Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-02
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El jardín de los cerezos
Overview: Aristocratic family in decline, ascendency of a new moneyed class.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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El joven Juárez
Overview: "Early-years" biography of important 19th century politician.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-17
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Tal para cual
Overview: Mistaken identity farce; two guys each pretend to be somebody else to cover for each other in delicate situations.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-15
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This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
Overview: The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
Genres: Comedy War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Historia de un abrigo de mink
Overview: Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-04-28
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Storm in the souls
Overview: Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Las colegialas
Overview: Girl goes to boarding school while her widowed father pursues a romance. His thing turns out badly, but she meets her future husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Overview: Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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Maternidad imposible
Overview: Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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La negra Angustias
Overview: When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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El casado casa quiere
Overview: Interfering relatives complicate a couple's attempt to build their dream house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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The Pearl
Overview: Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Las cinco advertencias de Satanás
Overview: Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-02
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El marido de mi novia
Overview: Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love with her.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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La novia del mar
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-20
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Vuelva el sábado
Overview: Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-23
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Romeo y Julieta
Overview: Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-02
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¿Qué haremos con papá?
Overview: The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-07-14
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El testamento
Overview: After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-10
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Lullaby
Overview: A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Las manzanas de Dorotea
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-04-18
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Me ha besado un hombre
Overview: Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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Carita de cielo
Overview: A young woman is brought before a prosecutor after stealing food. She is defended by Julio, a university professor who decides to exhibit her as an example in his class on the theory of theft. Then he hires her as a housemaid. Her face and charms won’t only save her family from serious quandaries; they will also inspire the professor’s love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-17
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Melodías inolvidables
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Yo Quiero Ser Mala
Overview: In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-05
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La malcasada
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-05
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Hidden Paradise
Overview: Luis lives in the jungle with his parents and his many pets. His favorite pet is his monkey named Pancho. He finds a hide out where he and his friend Marta are able to discover new creatures and enjoy nature. His father Lorenzo orders him to get rid of his pets starting with his pet monkey.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-28
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¿Mujer... o fiera?
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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