
Birthday:
07-28-1928
Deathday:
12-09-2012 (84 years)
Birthplace:
Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Biography
Gloria Mestre Rodríguez (July 28, 1928 – December 9, 2012) was a Mexican dancer, choreographer, and actress in film, stage, and television. She was considered one of the greatest Mexican ballet dancers in the early 1940s.
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What a Man
event1955 star_border 5
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Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
The Brute
Act like María
event1953 star_border 6.9
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A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Island of Lost Souls
event1974 star_border 5.8
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Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Préstame tu cuerpo
Act like Gloria
event1958 star_border 5
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Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Interval
Act like Rosalia
event1973 star_border 5
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An emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
Música, mujeres y amor
Act like Gloria
event1952 star_border 5.2
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Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
Foxhole in Cairo
Act like Amina
event1960 star_border 5.5
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A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Solamente una vez
event1954 star_border 5
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A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.
Life Changes
Act like Doña Lupe
event1976 star_border 5.6
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An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...
Los de abajo
event1977 star_border 6.3
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In this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.
The Devil's Horse
Act like Renata
event1975 star_border 4.6
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Highly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even more violent then before, this time extending his violence to women and animals.
The Abduction
Act like Bailarina (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 4.6
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In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
Victims of Sin
Act like Cabaretera (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.5
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A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Far from Heaven
Act like Salomé
event1952 star_border 7.6
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Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Act like Martita (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.1
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A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Mi campeón
Act like Bailarina
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.
Dios los cría
Act like (uncredited)
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...
Frontera norte
Act like Gloria
event1953 star_border 5
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Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Reclusorio III
event1999 star_border 5
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3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
Maratón de baile
event1958 star_border 5
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Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.
The Sword of Granada
Act like Princess Esme's Messenger
event1954 star_border 5.6
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In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph. Don Pedro’s accomplice is Juan Ponce de León, who intends to steal the "Rose of Granada," a rare gem owned by the Caliph, which supposedly contains a rare essence that ensures eternal youth.
The Coming of the King Olmos
event1975 star_border 6
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After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
Sorceress
Act like Nursemaid
event1982 star_border 4.3
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To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs away after giving birth with her twin daughters. Before dying, she hands the girls over to the warrior Krona who promises to raise them as great soldiers. Twenty years later, Traigon returns and begins hunting down his daughters once again. Will the twins, with the help of the Barbarian Erlik and the Viking Baldar, be able to defeat their father?
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