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Ariel Award For Best Picture
The Ariel Award for Best Picture (Ariel de Mejor Película in Spanish) is the highest award given in Mexico to a single film and is part of the Mexican Academy of Film's Ariel Award program. Award results Event Summary of Ariel Awards, Mexico 1940s 1950s : — Not awarded : to |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Otra (film)
''La Otra'' ("The Other" (feminine)), sometimes screened with the title ''The Other One'', is a 1945 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Dolores del Río. The film was remade in 1964 as '' Dead Ringer'', with Bette Davis. Plot At a Christmas party, María Méndez ( Dolores del Río) learns that Magdalena, her twin sister, has a comfortable lifestyle. Maria kills her sister and assumes her identity and lifestyle. However, her life becomes complicated by her late sister's sleazy boyfriend Fernando (Víctor Junco), and by Roberto (Agustín Irusta), who loved the "dead" María. Production It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. The 96-page script was originally titled "The Other Woman" by José Revueltas, Jack Wagner and Roberto Gavaldón from a story by Ryan James. The Paul Kohler Agency represented the screenwriters. Cast * Dolores del Río as María and Magdalena Méndez * Víctor Junco Fernando * Agustín Irusta as Roberto Gonzalez * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Familia De Tantas
''A Family Like Many Others'' (Spanish: ''Una familia de tantas'') is a 1949 Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Fernando Soler, David Silva and Martha Roth.Hernandez-Rodriguez p.82 The film's sets were designed by the art director Gunther Gerszo. Synopsis A domineering father's control over his family weakens when a charming salesman comes to the house. Cast * Fernando Soler as Rodrigo Cataño * David Silva as Roberto del Hierro * Martha Roth as Maru Cataño * Carlos Riquelme as Ricardo * Eugenia Galindo as doña Gracia Cataño * Enriqueta Reza as Guadalupe - sirvienta * Felipe de Alba as Héctor Cataño * Nora Veryán as Pilar - novia de Héctor * Isabel del Puerto as Estela Cataño * Manuel de la Vega as Leopoldo * Alma Delia Fuentes as Lupita Cataño * Conchita Gentil Arcos as Invitada a fiesta * María Gentil Arcos as Invitada a fiesta * Maruja Grifell as Madre de Roberto * Jorge Martínez de Hoyos Jorge Martínez de Hoyos (September 25, 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito Davison
Tito Davison (14 November 1912 – 21 March 1985) was a Chilean-born Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 60 films between 1937 and 1982. Selected filmography * '' Thus Is Life'' (1930) * ''Shadows of Glory'' (1930) * '' Murió el sargento Laprida'' (1937) * '' Educating Niní'' (1940) * '' He Who Died of Love'' (1945) * '' ¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!'' (1946) * ''Ramona'' (1946) * '' The Golden Boat'' (1947) * '' The Private Life of Mark Antony and Cleopatra'' (1947) * ''Midnight'' (1949) * '' The Devil Is a Woman'' (1950) * ''Women Without Tomorrow'' (1951) * ''When I Leave'' (1954) * ''The Price of Living'' (1954) * '' La Dulce Enemiga'' (1957) * ''The White Sister ''The White Sister'' is a play in four acts by Francis Marion Crawford and Walter C. Hackett. The play was originally written by Crawford in 1907 and he later adapted the play into a serialized novel which was first published over a six month p ...'' (1960) * '' Love in the Shadow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Que Dios Me Perdone
''Que Dios me perdone'' (English title: ''May God Forgive Me''), is a 1948 Mexican film produced by Cinematográfica Filmex S.A and directed by Tito Davison, starring María Félix, Fernando Soler and Julián Soler. Plot Lena is a sinister spy, she also manages to seduce several wealthy men only to obtain information. Meanwhile, unexplained deaths happen that only a psychologist will discover. Cast *María Félix as Sofía / Lena Kovach *Fernando Soler as Don Esteban Velasco *Julián Soler as Dr. Mario Colina Vázquez * Tito Junco as Ernesto Serrano * Ernesto Vilches as Medina *Carmelita González as Alicia *Fanny Schiller as Olga *José Baviera as Luigi Martino * Pepe Martínez as Jeweler *Armando Velasco as Sebastián, the butler * Nicolás Rodríguez as Martínez *Hernán Vera as Inn owner *Victorio Blanco as Bellboy *Paco Martínez as Notary public *Daniel Arroyo as Man asking Esteban (uncredited) * Fernando Casanova as Fernando (uncredited) *Gloria Lozano Gloria Lozano w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Río Escondido (film)
''Río Escondido'' is a 1948 Mexican melodrama directed by Emilio Fernández and starring María Félix, Fernando Fernández, Carlos López Moctezuma, and Domingo Soler. Plot The President of México sends Rosaura Salazar (María Félix), a young teacher, to educate a remote rural village known as Río Escondido. Rosaura accepts the mission even though she suffers from a potentially life-threatening heart condition. While walking there in the heat, Rosaura collapses and is saved by Felipe ( Fernando Fernández), a student doctor on his way to a nearby town for his social service. At Río Escondido, the tyrannical local boss don Regino Sandoval (Carlos López Moctezuma) initially blocks her plans to reopen the school. Rosaura adopts two children whose mother died from smallpox. After becoming ill himself, don Regino calls for Felipe, who agrees to cure him in exchange for vaccinating the townspeople and letting Rosaura open the school. However, don Regino then insults Rosaura by off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Momplet
Antonio Momplet (1899 – 10 August 1974) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He worked in Spain, France, Argentina and Mexico. Life and career Antonio Momplet was born in Cádiz, Andalusia. He worked as a journalist and translator of foreign films in Barcelona until 1927, when he moved to Paris and began to work for Gaumont. In the mid 1930s he moved back to Spain where he directed four feature films and founded the film journal ''Cine Art'', which quickly became influential. To avoid the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Argentina in 1937, and made eight feature films the following years. In 1943 he moved to Mexico to join the film industry there, and made a number of Mexican films both as director and writer for others, before he moved back to Buenos Aires in 1946. In 1952 he returned to Spain. During his final Spanish period he made films such as the Spaghetti Western parody ''Due contro tutti'', before he retired in 1964. He settled in Cadaqués where he died in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Buen Mozo
EL, El or el may refer to: Religion * El (deity), a Semitic word for "God" People * EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist * El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American politician * Ephrat Livni (born 1972), American street artist Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * El, short for Eleven, a fictional character in the TV series '' Stranger Things'' * El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in '' Superman'' *E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film '' Road Trip'' Literature * ''Él'', 1926 autobiographical novel by Mercedes Pinto * ''Él'' (visual novel), a 2000 Japanese adult visual novel Music * Él Records, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway * ''Él'' (Lucero album), a 1982 album by Lucero * "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from ''Caminando'' (album) * "Él" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilberto Martínez Solares
Mario Gilberto Agustin Martinez Solares (January 19, 1906 – January 18, 1997) was a Mexican director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and actor who is considered one of the most prolific filmmakers in Mexican cinema having directed more than 160 films, most of them written by him during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He is also recognized as the most important comedy director in Mexico. Life and career Gilberto Martínez Solares was born on January 19, 1906, in Mexico City. His father, Gilberto Martínez Medina, was an accountant that worked for the Madero government. In 1910, the Mexican Revolution broke out, and, as a result of the expanding violent environment in Mexico City, the Martínez-Solares family moved near Pénjamo, Guanajuato to the Hacienda de la Calle in 1913. Upon the family's return to Mexico City, Gilberto Martínez attended the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas primary school, where he shared the classroom and the hours of play with two future colleagues; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
