Joaquín Pardavé

Joaquín Pardavé

Born: September 30, 1900
Died: July 20, 1955
in Pénjamo, Guanajuato, México
Joaquín Pardavé Arce (September 30, 1900 – July 20, 1955) was a Mexican film actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was best known for starring and directing various comedy films during the 1940s. In some of them, Pardavé paired with one of Mexico's most famous actresses, Sara García, the films which they starred are El baisano Jalil, El barchante Neguib, El ropavejero, and La familia Pérez. Both actors had on-screen chemistry together, and are noted for playing a wide variety of comic characters from Lebanese foreigners to middle-class Mexicans.

Movies for Joaquín Pardavé...

La virtud desnuda
Title: La virtud desnuda
Released: May 5, 1957
Type: Movie
A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agree to the price she sets on it. Twist ending.
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Las medias de seda
Title: Las medias de seda
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...
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Pueblo, canto y esperanza
Title: Pueblo, canto y esperanza
Released: May 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
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Ladies Club
Title: Ladies Club
Character: Don Susanito Peñafiel
Released: April 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
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A los cuatro vientos
Title: A los cuatro vientos
Released: June 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.
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El hombre inquieto
Title: El hombre inquieto
Character: Don Raful Caim
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
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El mil amores
Title: El mil amores
Character: Chabelo
Released: November 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
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La gitana blanca
Title: La gitana blanca
Character: Don Angelo
Released: August 18, 1954
Type: Movie
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El casto Susano
Title: El casto Susano
Released: May 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
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Reportaje
Title: Reportaje
Character: Thief with arabic accent
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Mi adorada Clementina
Title: Mi adorada Clementina
Released: June 23, 1953
Type: Movie
A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.
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Doña Mariquita de mi corazón
Title: Doña Mariquita de mi corazón
Character: Ubaldo
Released: June 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz.
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Pompeyo el conquistador
Title: Pompeyo el conquistador
Released: January 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.
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The Guys from Penjamo
Title: The Guys from Penjamo
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies.
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Mi campeón
Title: Mi campeón
Character: Don Choforito Moreno
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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From Can-Can to Mambo
Title: From Can-Can to Mambo
Character: Don Susanito Llueve o Truene
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
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Gendarme de punto
Title: Gendarme de punto
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Don Timoteo Rodriguez is an old friendly but scared and outdated, whose office is the pedestal: According to his modest way of life, things are more important to the traditional and the past. Yet., Timothy has a son who's not at all like his name is Luis, a young reckless and vicious, whose bad companions take him away from the law. There will come a moment in which Don Timoteo have to forget about the old days and his son face the reality, but what will be the cost of having evaded?
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Una gallega baila mambo
Title: Una gallega baila mambo
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
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Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
Title: Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
Character: Don Bodroz
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
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Primero soy Mexicano
Title: Primero soy Mexicano
Released: June 24, 1950
Type: Movie
USA-educated doctor goes home for the first time in years. Culture shock.
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Una gallega en México
Title: Una gallega en México
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Dos pesos dejada
Title: Dos pesos dejada
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight.
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Arriba el norte
Title: Arriba el norte
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella.
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Perez Family
Title: Perez Family
Character: Gumaro Pérez
Released: May 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
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Ojos de juventud
Title: Ojos de juventud
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets!
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Los viejos somos así
Title: Los viejos somos así
Released: January 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Two card-sharps fall for the same woman.
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La niña de mis ojos
Title: La niña de mis ojos
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Classic movie of Mexican cinema.
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El ropavejero
Title: El ropavejero
Released: January 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Cirilo, a used clothes dealer, falls in love with Maria, who works as a cook in a house. One day they find by chance in the basement something that will change their lives.
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El barchante Neguib
Title: El barchante Neguib
Character: Neguib
Released: September 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).
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Los nietos de Don Venancio
Title: Los nietos de Don Venancio
Released: June 13, 1946
Type: Movie
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La reina de la opereta
Title: La reina de la opereta
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
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Like All Mothers
Title: Like All Mothers
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
The story of a single mother and her children, and the lives that cross their paths.
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El Gran Makakikus
Title: El Gran Makakikus
Released: December 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
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Los Hijos De Don Venancio
Title: Los Hijos De Don Venancio
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions.
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México de mis recuerdos
Title: México de mis recuerdos
Character: Don Susanito Peñafiel
Released: April 6, 1944
Type: Movie
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
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El sombrero de tres picos
Title: El sombrero de tres picos
Character: El Corregidor
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The corregidor, or magistrate, of a small Spanish village tries to seduce the miller's wife, with rather humorous results.
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Adios Juventud
Title: Adios Juventud
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.
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Cinco fueron escogidos
Title: Cinco fueron escogidos
Released: July 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different cast (at least in major roles). Sadly, this film, usually referred to as "Five Were Chosen" but sometimes called "Hostages" (not to be confused with the somewhat similar 1943 Hollywood movie with that title), appears to be lost. García Riera indicates the English-language version was screened in Mexico, at least for the press, but does not seem to have been released commercially in the Mexico or the USA. Since Herbert Kline was well-known for his leftist views, it's not surprising to note that many of the imported Hollywood actors were also left-leaning (and in fact more than one was blacklisted during the Red Scare era).
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El baisano Jalil
Title: El baisano Jalil
Released: December 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
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Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Title: Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Character: don Severo de los Rios / don Placido
Released: October 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
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Esa mujer es la mía
Title: Esa mujer es la mía
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Two pen-pals decide to get married, but the groom cooks up a scheme to test his fiancee's moral fibr before they tie the knt.
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Dark Angel
Title: Dark Angel
Character: Don Luciano
Released: August 12, 1942
Type: Movie
Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha
Title: Mil estudiantes y una muchacha
Released: March 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Every single student at Uni flips over the young woman that lives in the building across the street from the Commons. She's a professor's daughter... Hijinks ensue.
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¿Quién te quiere a tí?
Title: ¿Quién te quiere a tí?
Character: Rogaciano Gutiérrez
Released: January 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them.
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Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Title: Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Character: Don Simón
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
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When the Children are Gone
Title: When the Children are Gone
Character: Don Casimiro
Released: July 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
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El jefe máximo
Title: El jefe máximo
Released: October 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
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You’re Missing the Point
Title: You’re Missing the Point
Character: Cayetano Lastre
Released: September 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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¡Que viene mi marido!
Title: ¡Que viene mi marido!
Character: Don Valeriano
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
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Viviré otra vez
Title: Viviré otra vez
Character: Chufas
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
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To the Sound of the Marimba
Title: To the Sound of the Marimba
Released: April 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
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In the Times of Don Porfirio
Title: In the Times of Don Porfirio
Character: don Rodrigo
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
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En un burro tres baturros
Title: En un burro tres baturros
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.
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Caballo A Caballo
Title: Caballo A Caballo
Released: June 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
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Every Madman to His Specialty
Title: Every Madman to His Specialty
Character: Justiniano conquián
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.
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Hombres del aire
Title: Hombres del aire
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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The Girls Aunt
Title: The Girls Aunt
Character: Goyo Becerra
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.
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Los millones de Chaflán
Title: Los millones de Chaflán
Character: Rómulo Valdés
Released: August 29, 1938
Type: Movie
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Tierra brava
Title: Tierra brava
Released: August 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.
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La zandunga
Title: La zandunga
Character: Don Catarino, el alcalde
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor
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Canción del alma
Title: Canción del alma
Released: February 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later...
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Mi candidato
Title: Mi candidato
Released: July 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
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Jalisco nunca pierde
Title: Jalisco nunca pierde
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
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Bajo el cielo de México
Title: Bajo el cielo de México
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
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The Eagle and the Serpent
Title: The Eagle and the Serpent
Released: December 31, 1930
Type: Movie