|
Mimí Derba
María Herminia Pérez de León, better known as Mimí Derba (9 October 1893 – 14 July 1953) was a Mexican actress, screenwriter, and film director, considered the first female film director in Mexico. Early life At the age of seventeen in Derba sang for the Mexican theater; she successfully transitioned from singing to acting in silent cinema. Career Activism When Derba wasn’t acting or directing films, she had a very active political life. She founded the first actors' union to foster the art of live theatre by negotiating wages, improving working conditions, and adding benefits like health and pension plans. Due starting this union, Derba lost film jobs. Azteca Films During the silent film era, Derba founded Azteca films with Enrique Rosas and produced five films in 1917. ''En defensa Propia'' was the first film made by Azteca films. Azteca films, however, faced the crisis of the Spanish pandemic in 1918, and as a result, her sixth film, ''Chapultepec'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Flower (1943 Film)
''Wild Flower'' (Spanish: ''Flor silvestre'') is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in Silent and Golden Age's Hollywood films. It's the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernández-Del Rio-Armendáriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Guiú in a small role as an extra. The film is considered one of the defining films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Plot In a small village in central Mexico in the early twentieth century, José Luis, son of the landowner Don Francisco, secretly marries Esperanza, a beautiful, but humble peasant. Disgusted by the wedding and because his son has become in a revolutionary, Don Francisco disinherits his son and kicks him out of his house. After the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, the couple lives happily until Jose L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Film Actresses
Mexican may refer to: Mexico and its culture *Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America ** People *** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants *** Mexica, ancient indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico ** Being related to the State of Mexico, one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico ** Culture of Mexico *** Mexican cuisine *** historical synonym of Nahuatl, language of the Nahua people (including the Mexica) Arts and entertainment * "The Mexican" (short story), by Jack London * "The Mexican" (song), by the band Babe Ruth * Regional Mexican, a Latin music radio format Films * ''The Mexican'' (1918 film), a German silent film * ''The Mexican'' (1955 film), a Soviet film by Vladimir Kaplunovsky based on the Jack London story, starring Georgy Vitsin * ''The Mexican'', a 2001 American comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts Other uses * USS ''Mexican'' (ID-1655), United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Deaths
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. ** The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Upr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 ** The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa. ** The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Plebeian
''The Plebeian'' (Spanish: ''El plebeyo'') is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Rosita Arenas, Raúl Martínez and Chula Prieto Chula Prieto (1929–1960) was a Mexican film actress.Agrasánchez p.72 Selected filmography * ''My General's Women'' (1951) * '' You Had To Be a Gypsy'' (1953) * ''Your Memory and Me'' (1953) * ''The Plebeian ''The Plebeian'' (Spanish: ''El ple ....Amador p.116 Cast References Bibliography * María Luisa Amador. ''Cartelera cinematográfica, 1950-1959''. UNAM, 1985. External links * 1953 films 1953 drama films Mexican drama films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Miguel M. Delgado Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh Darling! Look What You've Done!
''Oh Darling! Look What You've Done To Me!'' (Spanish:''¡Ay, amor, cómo me has puesto!'') is a 1951 Mexican romantic comedy film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Germán Valdés, Rebeca Iturbide and Marcelo Chávez.Monsiváis & Kraniauskas p.116 A bakery delivery man falls in love with a middle-class woman after helping her following an accident, but her family object to him. Cast * Germán Valdés as Tin Tan * Rebeca Iturbide as Margarita * Marcelo Chávez as Patrón de la Panaderia * Famie Kaufman as Vitola * Jorge Reyes as Doctor Esteban * Mimí Derba as Doña Beatriz, mamá de Margarita * Arturo Soto Rangel as don Manuel, padre de Margarita * Pascual García Peña as Ranilla * Lucrecia Muñoz as Lupita * José René Ruiz as Pepito * Club de Foot-Ball Marte * Armando Arriola as Enfermero * Stephen Berne as man in the cantina * Enrique Carrillo as Policía * Fernando Curiel as Doctor * Magdalena Estrada as Esposa del patrón * Leonor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immaculate (1950 Film)
''Immaculate'' (Spanish:''Inmaculada'') is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring Rosario Granados, Carlos López Moctezuma and Eduardo Noriega.Agrasánchez p.95 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jesús Bracho. Cast * Rosario Granados as Consuelo * Carlos López Moctezuma as Jorge Villagran * Eduardo Noriega as Luis Angel * Eva Martino as Lucia * Prudencia Grifell as Dona Rosa * Delia Magaña as Severina * Mimí Derba as madre de Luis Angel * Tana Lynn as La seductora * Maruja Grifell as Madame * Lupita Llaca as Rosalia * Elda Peralta as Guillermina Perea * Diana Ochoa as Merceditas, tendera * Armando Arriola as Nacho * Armando Velasco as Doctor * Luis Mussot as Don Carlos * Enrique Díaz 'Indiano' as Doctor * Diana Bracho Diana Bracho (born Diana Guadalupe Bracho y Bordes Mangel; 12 December 1944, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Early life Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salón México
''Salón México'' is a 1949 Mexican film noir directed by Emilio Fernández and co-written by Fernandez and Mauricio Magdaleno. It stars Marga López as a dance hall prostitute struggling to support her younger sister at an exclusive upscale school. It earned Lopez the 1950 Ariel Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor for Rodolfo Acosta. The film is cited as a classic example of the Mexican genre of ''Cabaretera'' (Dance Hall film) about "a sympathetic character, a good woman forced into a bad life by circumstances beyond her control." It was remade as a 1996 film of the same title starring María Rojo. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jesús Bracho. Synopsis Mercedes works at the "Salón México" dance hall as a singer, dancer and prostitute. She is secretly supporting Beatriz, her younger sister, at an exclusive all-girls' college. Beatriz does not suspect what Mercedes is doing and dreams of marrying Roberto, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hour Of Truth
''The Hour of Truth'' (Spanish: ''La hora de la verdad'') is a 1945 Mexican drama film directed by Norman Foster and starring Ricardo Montalbán, Virginia Serret, Lilia Michel.Mora p.70 It is set in the world of bullfighting. Cast * Ricardo Montalbán as Rafael Meija * Virginia Serret as Carmela * Lilia Michel as Elena * Roberto Cañedo * Mimí Derba * Miguel Ángel Ferriz * Antonio R. Frausto * Miguel Inclán * Carlos Martínez Baena * Carlos Orellana * Daniel Pastor * Fernando A. Rivero * Emma Roldán Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award. ... * Virginia Zurí References Bibliography * Mora, Carl J. ''Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society''. University of California Press, 1989. External links * 1945 films 1945 drama films Mexican drama films 1940s Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Memories Of Mexico
''My Memories of Mexico'' (Spanish:''México de mis recuerdos'') is a 1944 Mexican historical musical film directed by Juan Bustillo Oro and starring Fernando Soler, Sofía Álvarez, Joaquín Pardavé, Dolores Camarillo and Salvador Quiroz.Segre p.89 The film nostalgically recreates the years of the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship in Mexico. The film's sets were designed by the art director Luis Moya. Cast * Fernando Soler as Don Jesús Flores * Sofía Álvarez as Rosario Medina * Joaquín Pardavé as Don Susanito Peñafiel y Somellera * Luis Aldás as Pablo Flores * Antonio R. Frausto as Don Porfirio Díaz * Tana as Adelina Roca * Virginia Zurí as Doña Carmelita * Mimí Derba as Tía Gertrudis * Dolores Camarillo as Conchita, portera * María Luisa Serrano as Tía Cuquita * Conchita Gentil Arcos as Tía Blandina * Salvador Quiroz as Coronel Zamudio * Ricardo Mutio as Luis G. Urbina * José Pidal as Amado Nervo * Ernesto Monato as Ernesto Elorduy * Manuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porfirio Díaz (film)
''Porfirio Díaz'' is a 1944 Mexican historical film directed by Rafael M. Saavedra and Raphael J. Sevilla. It portrays the life of the nineteenth century Mexican soldier and President Porfirio Díaz.Turner p.301 Cast * Emilio Brillas * Asunción Casal * Fernando Curiel * Mimí Derba * Tony Díaz * Gloria Estrada * Conchita Gentil Arcos * José Goula * Rafael Icardo * Miguel Inclán * José Luis Jiménez * Max Langler * Chel López * José Elías Moreno * Manuel Noriega * Alicia de Phillips * Salvador Quiroz * Humberto Rodríguez * Virginia Serret * David Silva * Arturo Soto Rangel Arturo Soto Rangel (March 12, 1882 – May 25, 1965) was a Mexican film, television, and stage actor. Soto was best known for appearing in over 250 Mexican films. He appeared in one American movie, '' The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'', which won ... * Dolores Tinoco * David Valle González * Aurora Zermeño References Bibliography * Turner, Frederick. ''The Dynamic of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.svg "Click for more on -> Mexico City"){kind=logo}
