Birthday:
08-23-1917
Deathday:
10-21-1999 (82 years)
Birthplace:
Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico
Biography
From Wikipedia
María Esther Fernández González, better known as Esther Fernández (August 23, 1917 in Mascota, Jalisco Mexico – October 21, 1999 in Mexico City, Mexico), was a Mexican film and television actress. She was one of the first female major stars of the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema" in the 1930s and 1940s.
Fernández began her career as an extra in the film La Mujer del Puerto (1934). Her beauty and charisma drew the attention of film director Fernando de Fuentes, who gave her the female lead role of Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), opposite Tito Guizar. The film is regarded as marking the start of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
During the rest of the 1930s, Fernández acted in hit movies including Amapola del Camino (1937), with Andrea Palma and Tito Guizar; Mi Candidato (1938), with Joaquín Pardavé and Pedro Armendàriz; and Los de Abajo, with Isabela Corona and Emilio Fernández. Her popularity caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which promoted her films in Latin America and invited her to work in Hollywood.
In 1943 she starred in the second sound version of the classic Mexican film Santa, directed by Norman Foster, opposite Ricardo Montalban. In 1946 she acted in the Hollywood film Two Years Before the Mast, with Brian Donlevy and Alan Ladd.
Her last appearance was in the film Reclusorio II (1997).
María Esther Fernández González, better known as Esther Fernández (August 23, 1917 in Mascota, Jalisco Mexico – October 21, 1999 in Mexico City, Mexico), was a Mexican film and television actress. She was one of the first female major stars of the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema" in the 1930s and 1940s.
Fernández began her career as an extra in the film La Mujer del Puerto (1934). Her beauty and charisma drew the attention of film director Fernando de Fuentes, who gave her the female lead role of Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), opposite Tito Guizar. The film is regarded as marking the start of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
During the rest of the 1930s, Fernández acted in hit movies including Amapola del Camino (1937), with Andrea Palma and Tito Guizar; Mi Candidato (1938), with Joaquín Pardavé and Pedro Armendàriz; and Los de Abajo, with Isabela Corona and Emilio Fernández. Her popularity caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which promoted her films in Latin America and invited her to work in Hollywood.
In 1943 she starred in the second sound version of the classic Mexican film Santa, directed by Norman Foster, opposite Ricardo Montalban. In 1946 she acted in the Hollywood film Two Years Before the Mast, with Brian Donlevy and Alan Ladd.
Her last appearance was in the film Reclusorio II (1997).
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Doña Perfecta
Act like Rosario
event1951 star_border 6.5
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Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
De pecado en pecado
event1948 star_border 5
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This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance, the film's Director Chano Urueta ( who became an acclaimed actor in his own right), actually co-wrote the script along with one of its principal actresses, namely Esther Fernandez, as well as adding in the literary abilities of a well-known movie-producer of the era named Luis Marique.
El lunar de la familia
event1953 star_border 6
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Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Luisa, and his sister Esther. Unfortunately for the visitors, Luisa's goddaughter Rosita, is sitting near them in the same train car. She soon catches wind of the boys' wild tendencies, and makes a point of telling Luisa. Furious, the crotchety old woman decides to teach the bad boys a lesson by beating them senseless with her cane and forcing Luis to seek out a proper mate for Esther. Unfortunately, Esther has already fallen in love with Antonio - who could care less.
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Act like Cruz
event1936 star_border 5.3
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Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
Santa
Act like Santa
event1943 star_border 5.6
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Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito
Two Years Before the Mast
Act like Maria Dominguez
event1946 star_border 6.2
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In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
The Underdogs
Act like Camila
event1940 star_border 5.7
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During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
Los años de Greta
event1992 star_border 6.2
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Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
Each child, a cross
Act like Lupita
event1957 star_border 5
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Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
La santa del barrio
event1948 star_border 5
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Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
Mujer
event1947 star_border 5
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Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
Ojos tapatios
Act like Lucha
event1938 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
La Fuga
Act like Maria Ines Flores
event1944 star_border 5.3
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A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
The Macabre Trunk
Act like Alicia Monroy
event1936 star_border 5.4
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A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Flor de durazno
Act like Rina
event1945 star_border 5
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City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
Mi candidato
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Act like Cruz
event1956 star_border 5
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Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
Fashion Horizons
event1940 star_border 3
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Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.
Pancho Villa Returns
Act like Teresa Mota
event1950 star_border 5
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It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.
Cuatro vidas
event1949 star_border 5
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Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.
Pancho Villa vuelve
event1950 star_border 5.3
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Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.
Víctimas del divorcio
event1952 star_border 5
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The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
El billetero
event1953 star_border 5.3
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Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.
Las mañanitas
event1948 star_border 5
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Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Act like Claudia
event1948 star_border 5
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Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Encrucijada
event1956 star_border 5
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Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
The Woman of the Port
Act like Mujer de cabaret
event1934 star_border 5.9
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Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...
Esperanza
event1946 star_border 5
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Mexican movie
Genio y figura
event1953 star_border 5.3
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When the pregnant Esther gets some bad news from her doctor, he advises her to visit a clinic in Mexico City, so she enlists husband Antonio to drive her there at once, along with her brother Luis. As soon as the men drop her off at the hospital, they hit a local nightclub and live it up, and as they are leaving the club in the company of a sexy dancer, they get thoroughly robbed: the criminals even steal the poor victims' clothes! Taken in to the police station and documented along the way, their photograph turns up in the paper the next day, which Esther of course sees. The men will have a lot to explain when they arrive at the clinic to pick up Esther.
Extraña cita
event1947 star_border 5
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Mexican movie
Tierra brava
event1938 star_border 5
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Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.
Surcos de sangre
Act like Isabel
event1950
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Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.
The Last Adventure
Act like Graciela Hernández
event1946 star_border 6
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All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
La Adelita
event1937 star_border 5
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Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
Cantaclaro
event1946 star_border 6
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A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
La carne manda
event1948 star_border 5
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Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.
La calle de los amores
event1954 star_border 5
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Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
Sangre en el barrio
event1952 star_border 5
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Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Reportaje
Act like Nurse
event1953 star_border 6.9
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Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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