
Birthday:
09-25-1914
Deathday:
07-10-2015 (100 years)
Birthplace:
Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biography
Elena Lucena was an Argentinian actress, dancer and singer. She started her career as a singer in Argentinian radio during the 1930s and she became famous for her personification of her character Chimbela, who was later adapted to cinema, theater and television. She was part of multiple films during the 1940s, usually playing a comic relief character.
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El galleguito de la cara sucia
Act like Mamá de Laura
event1966
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Amorous misadventures of a warehouse clerk rejected for his condition.
Joven, viuda y estanciera
Act like Leocadia
event1970
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The foreman of a ranch, secretly in love with the owner, tries to protect her from the gold diggers.
Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tienda
event1942 star_border 7.5
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Rich girl with progressive ideas goes undercover as a sales clerk at her father's department store.
Brother and Sister
event2010 star_border 6.7
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They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.
Napoleón
event1941 star_border 6
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Upon learning that he has two months to live, a man distributes his fortune among his pensioners, over time he is still alive and has been left without a penny.
Good Night, My Love
event1961
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It was never released commercially. Its plot is unknown.
Un nuevo amanecer
event1942
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A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.
La murga
event1963 star_border 6
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The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.
Lua de Outubro
Act like Viviana
event2001
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Arzabal wins land on the border. When he arrives to settle in, he finds himself confronted by the local political boss, unenthusiastic about his landing. Based on the play by Mario Arregui.
Buscando a Mónica
Act like Lucy
event1962 star_border 6
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A man has a street accident with his car in his way to Buenos Aires. While he waits for his car repairing, this business man learns that everybody in the little town where he's stuck seem to know about his wife Mónica. He knows little about her past, but the reactions of the townsfolk towards him range from laughing at his back to practically don't want him around. He won't leave the town until he could learn more about the secret past of his wife. But the former life of the young beautiful mother of his daughter involves a turbulent story.
Estrellas de Buenos Aires
event1956
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The son of an entrepreneur is strongly attracted to a magazine theater showgirl.
A Madcap Widow
Act like The first gossip
event1980 star_border 1.5
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The attractive, exuberant and beautiful Flor Tetis Soutien de Gambeta (Isabel Sarli), an ostentatious woman who kills men, has just been widowed for the eighth time. All her fortune was fading little by little and she now she is about to be ruined. But suddenly he sees her good luck reappear: A little canillita (newspaper seller), Pepe Mangiabróccoli (Pepe Marrone), with a good heart, who suddenly becomes a millionaire by earning the prode and falls in love with her.
When My Heart Calls
Act like Pocha
event1942 star_border 10
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A singer married to a gambler is accused of murder.
Una noche cualquiera
event1951
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An unsuccessful actor wants to get money from his uncle to mount a play, and seeks a woman and a child to make them look like his wife and son.
Cinco besos
Act like Camelia Da Silva
event1946
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Love affairs in a theater: vedettes, sweethearts of chorus and scandals that include a millionaire.
La Casa del Amor
event1973
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A house in Buenos Aires where the oldest profession in the world is in practice.
Valentina
Act like Catalina Castro
event1950
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A young millionaire meets a mechanic who has invented a carburetor as a result of a breakdown in her car.
La casa de Madame Lulú
Act like Madame Lulú
event1968 star_border 6
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In the 1930s a young revolutionary falls in love with a young woman of innocent appearance but who really works in a brothel.
La rubia Mireya
Act like Nelly
event1948
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The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.
El calavera
Act like Enriqueta
event1958
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Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.
Chimbela
Act like Chimbela
event1939
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A young woman protects and falls in love with a fugitive accused of murder.
La que no perdonó
Act like Cecilia
event1938 star_border 5.3
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A mother takes her husband away from her daughter; the first falls into misery and this is forced to marry a man who does not love.
Pájaros sin nido
event1940
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The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of life".
Frutilla
Act like Adela
event1980
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A girl arrives in Buenos Aires from Catamarca and fulfills her dream of being an actress.
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