Carolina Barret

Carolina Barret

Born: October 21, 1916
Died: October 13, 2009
The beautiful actress Carolina Barret (October 20, 1916 - October 13, 2009) was an actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema as a supporting character with an extensive career and designated as an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In addition to dedicating her life to Mexican cinema, she participated in several U.S. productions. In his last years he made some telenovelas.

ARIEL AWARDS. - 1947 Actress Canaima (Winner). - 1956 Supporting actress Espaldas mojadas (Winner).

- 1974 Female co-actress Calzonzín inspector (Nominated).

Movies for Carolina Barret...

El mexicano feo
Title: El mexicano feo
Released: June 28, 1984
Type: Movie
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
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41: El hombre perfecto
Title: 41: El hombre perfecto
Character: Mamá de Mamerto
Released: November 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Widowed,middle-aged sadsack has never known love in any of his marriages.
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Tivoli
Title: Tivoli
Character: Mrs. Quijanito
Released: June 26, 1975
Type: Movie
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
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Inspector Calzonzin
Title: Inspector Calzonzin
Character: Doña Pomposa
Released: May 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
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El metiche
Title: El metiche
Released: September 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
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El cuerpazo del delito
Title: El cuerpazo del delito
Character: (segment "La insaciable")
Released: July 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
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The Revenge of Hurricane Ramírez
Title: The Revenge of Hurricane Ramírez
Released: February 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of ​​promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.
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Cinco en la cárcel
Title: Cinco en la cárcel
Released: December 5, 1968
Type: Movie
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
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El día de la boda
Title: El día de la boda
Character: Enfermera en oficina
Released: October 31, 1968
Type: Movie
The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
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Time to Die
Title: Time to Die
Character: Sonia's Mother
Released: August 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
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Suerte te dé Dios
Title: Suerte te dé Dios
Released: May 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
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The Living Coffin
Title: The Living Coffin
Character: Clotilde
Released: December 3, 1959
Type: Movie
A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
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Black Pit of Dr. M
Title: Black Pit of Dr. M
Character: La Gitana
Released: May 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
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Ladrones de niños
Title: Ladrones de niños
Character: Consuelito, comadre
Released: July 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
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Pancho López
Title: Pancho López
Released: February 8, 1957
Type: Movie
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
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Los amantes
Title: Los amantes
Released: November 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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La vida tiene tres días
Title: La vida tiene tres días
Character: Leonor
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
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Espaldas mojadas
Title: Espaldas mojadas
Character: Margarita Frías
Released: June 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.
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As negro
Title: As negro
Released: November 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
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Damned City!
Title: Damned City!
Character: Josefina
Released: February 28, 1954
Type: Movie
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
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La infame
Title: La infame
Released: January 21, 1954
Type: Movie
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
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Cuarto de hotel
Title: Cuarto de hotel
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
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Adventure in Rio
Title: Adventure in Rio
Character: Luisa
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
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María Cristina
Title: María Cristina
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
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Vuelva el sábado
Title: Vuelva el sábado
Released: September 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
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Eterna agonía
Title: Eterna agonía
Character: Mercedes
Released: June 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
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Opio
Title: Opio
Released: June 4, 1949
Type: Movie
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La santa del barrio
Title: La santa del barrio
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
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Flor de caña
Title: Flor de caña
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
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Lazos de fuego
Title: Lazos de fuego
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Mexican movie
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¡A volar, joven!
Title: ¡A volar, joven!
Character: Margarita
Released: December 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
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Quite a Gentleman
Title: Quite a Gentleman
Character: Ana
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.
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Cinco rostros de mujer
Title: Cinco rostros de mujer
Character: Rosita
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
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The Last Adventure
Title: The Last Adventure
Character: Flora
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
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.
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Tragic Weddings
Title: Tragic Weddings
Released: May 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.
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¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Title: ¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Character: Rosita
Released: January 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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Canaima
Title: Canaima
Character: Juanifacia
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
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Como yo te quería
Title: Como yo te quería
Released: September 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy/drama.
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Escándalo de estrellas
Title: Escándalo de estrellas
Character: Lola Gutiérrez
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
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Gran Hotel
Title: Gran Hotel
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
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Viva Mi Desgracia
Title: Viva Mi Desgracia
Character: Gracia
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
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Beautiful Michoacán
Title: Beautiful Michoacán
Character: Julia
Released: October 10, 1943
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
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¡Arriba las mujeres!
Title: ¡Arriba las mujeres!
Character: Tacha
Released: July 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
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Santa
Title: Santa
Character: Flora
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
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
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La razón de la culpa
Title: La razón de la culpa
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy.
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María Eugenia
Title: María Eugenia
Character: Mulata
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
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Qué hombre tan simpático
Title: Qué hombre tan simpático
Character: Conchita
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
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¡Cuando la tierra tembló!
Title: ¡Cuando la tierra tembló!
Character: La amiga de la novia
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A 1942 film.
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Cinco minutos de amor
Title: Cinco minutos de amor
Character: Sirvienta de Lulú (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
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The Unknown Policeman
Title: The Unknown Policeman
Character: Cabaretera
Released: October 22, 1941
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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Los apuros de Narciso
Title: Los apuros de Narciso
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Enrique Herrera.
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Hombres del aire
Title: Hombres del aire
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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Canto a mi tierra
Title: Canto a mi tierra
Character: Pueblerina (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
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Así es mi tierra
Title: Así es mi tierra
Character: Carolina (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1937
Type: Movie
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.