
Birthday:
05-31-1903
Deathday:
03-18-1996 (92 years)
Birthplace:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biography
Niní Marshall, born Marina Esther Traveso, was an Argentine actress, screenwriter and comedian. She is well known for creating two emblematic satirical characters, Cándida and Catita, two archetypes of 20th century European immigration, with whom she participated in a large part of her films.
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Their works
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Luna de miel en Río
Act like Catita
event1940 star_border 7.5
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Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them to achieve their ends.
The novel of a poor young man
Act like Carolina
event1968
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A young man is forced for economic reasons to work as a ranch in the south of Argentina and there he tries to conquer a rich heiress.
Santa Cándida
Act like Cándida Lourelio Ramayaga
event1945 star_border 10
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A woman of high society dies, leaving a large part of her assets to her domestic worker, who must deal with the envy and jealousy of her relatives.
La película de Niní
event2005
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A portrait of the life of Niní Marshall, one of the greatest Argentine actresses and comedians. The film includes an enormous amount of excerpts from her films, interviews, documents, radio appearances and live shows.
Una gallega en México
event1949 star_border 5
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The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Catita is a lady
Act like Catita
event1956
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Catita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.
Escándalo en la familia
Act like Loli
event1967
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A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.
Mi campeón
Act like Doña Lupe; Cándida (as Nini Marshal)
event1952 star_border 5
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Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Los enredos de una gallega
Act like Cándida
event1951 star_border 5.5
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Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Una gallega baila mambo
event1951 star_border 5.5
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Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
Hay que educar a Niní
Act like Niní
event1940 star_border 6.8
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A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.
La alegre casada
event1952 star_border 5
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Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.
Crazy Love
Act like Juana / Juana La Loca / Catalina
event1953 star_border 5
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Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.
Una gallega en La Habana
Act like Cándida
event1955 star_border 5.2
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Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
Navidad de los pobres
event1947
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A woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.
Dios los cría
Act like Nínive Canovas Canesi
event1953 star_border 5.9
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Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Marriage in Buenos Aires
Act like Catita
event1940 star_border 6.8
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When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up such love affairs.
Vamos a soñar por el amor
Act like Ana
event1971
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Two women are River Plate Club fans, while their husbands are Boca Juniors fans. The males go out on their own, causing some trouble, until they are discovered.
Mujeres que trabajan
Act like Catita
event1938 star_border 8.2
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A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.
Cándida
Act like Cándida
event1939 star_border 6.8
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Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she mets a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
Mujeres que bailan
Act like Catita
event1949
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A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.
Yo quiero ser bataclana
Act like Catita
event1941 star_border 6.2
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Catita intercedes when a producer courts a chorus girl who is director's girlfriend.
Carmen
Act like Carmen
event1943
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A woman faints during an opera performance and dreams that she is the protagonist and when she is about to die, she wakes up.
The Headless Woman
event1947
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A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.
Cándida millonaria
Act like Cándida
event1941 star_border 6.7
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Servant in a wealthy household and her employer unexpectedly get all romantical together. His daughter isn't so keen on the marriage when it happens.
Cándida, la mujer del año
Act like Cándida Loueiro Ramallada
event1943
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After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.
Porteña de corazón
event1948 star_border 6
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Young doctor falls in love with a nurse, but his parents insist he marry someone from his own economic class.
La mentirosa
Act like Niní
event1942
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Dizzy secretary with a knack for embroidering the truth is identified as the heiress of a big mystery estate.
Los celos de Cándida
event1940
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Cándida and Jesús decide to purchase a Bed and Breakfast in Buenos Aires. But in the hostel already lived an Italian opera singer that provokes the jealousy of Cándida.
Madame Sans-Gêne
Act like Catalina, duquesa de Dancing, "Madame Sans Gene"
event1945
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In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
¡Qué linda es mi familia!
Act like Rosita
event1980 star_border 5
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A rebel son decides not to follow his father steps to follow his dreams of fame and popularity.
Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Act like Niní / agenteX25 / Carmiña / Surabaya
event1950
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After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
Orquesta de señoritas
Act like Nina / Giovannina
event1941
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A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.
Mosquita muerta
Act like Dionisia / Madmoiselle Mosquita
event1946
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In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.
Divorce in Montevideo
Act like Catita
event1939 star_border 7.5
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In order to get rid of his exgirlfriend, a rich boy marries a manicurist, agreeing to divorce months later. The deal is carried out, but the young man sincerely falls in love with her and desperately seeks her out to remarry.
Cleopatra era Cándida
Act like Cleopatra García Pérez / Cándida
event1964
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Cándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..
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