Yolanda Varela

Yolanda Varela

Born: March 30, 1930
Died: August 29, 2009
in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Yolanda Varela (March 30, 1930 - August 29, 2009) was one of the greatest Mexican actresses of the golden age of the Mexican Cinema. She was born on March 30, 1930. She started in the business at a very young age. She studied ballet in the National Institute of the Performing Arts. Yolanda Varela was the leading actress in many Mexican films and some Spanish/Mexican co-productions. Among her most important films are, Dos tipos de cuidado (1953) alongside Golden Age-idols Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete, Llamas Contra el Viento and El Niño y el Muro (1965), the film was about the segregation and violence situation in Western Europe, it was directed by Ismael Rodriguez and filmed in East Berlin, Germany. She also co-starred with Daniel Gélin, Arturo de Córdova, Jorge Mistral, Manolo Fabregas, Ernesto Alonso, Pedro Vargas, Mauricio Garces, Pedro Vargas, Fernando Soler, Resortes, Clavillazo, German Valdez "Tintan", Enrique Rambal, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Joaquín Cordero, and many more Mexican celebrities. She met her husband, the film producer Fernando de Fuentes Reyes, while working for him on the movie Lo que le Paso a Sanson. She died on August 29, 2009 of natural causes.

Movies for Yolanda Varela...

Departamento De Soltero
Title: Departamento De Soltero
Character: Laura
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.
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The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Title: The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
Character: Sra. Smith
Released: March 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Not realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guar
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Title: Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Character: Woman In Apartment (as Landa Varle)
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night. This film is composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror movies, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new footage shot in the U.S. by Jerry Warren.
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Amor en la sombra
Title: Amor en la sombra
Character: Mariela Morán
Released: November 24, 1960
Type: Movie
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
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La hermana blanca
Title: La hermana blanca
Released: July 19, 1960
Type: Movie
A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
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Three Black Angels
Title: Three Black Angels
Character: Catalina
Released: June 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
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House of Terror
Title: House of Terror
Character: Paquita
Released: June 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.
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Isla para dos
Title: Isla para dos
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: Movie
Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.
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El derecho a la vida
Title: El derecho a la vida
Character: Georgina
Released: January 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Four interlocking stories about pregnancy all intersecting in an obstetrician's office.
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Yo quiero ser artista
Title: Yo quiero ser artista
Released: May 15, 1958
Type: Movie
The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.
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School for Buglars
Title: School for Buglars
Character: Amante de Víctor
Released: May 9, 1958
Type: Movie
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
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La torre de marfil
Title: La torre de marfil
Released: April 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
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Los hijos del divorcio
Title: Los hijos del divorcio
Character: Raquel Díaz
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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Locos Peligrosos
Title: Locos Peligrosos
Character: Minerva
Released: July 31, 1957
Type: Movie
A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.
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Assassins of the Night
Title: Assassins of the Night
Released: May 2, 1957
Type: Movie
After serving a prison sentence, a guy goes after the gang-leader who framed him.
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Los amantes
Title: Los amantes
Released: November 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Llamas contra el viento
Title: Llamas contra el viento
Released: October 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Three young women all find the deepest and abidingest and truest of true forever loves during a one-week vacation.
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La herida luminosa
Title: La herida luminosa
Character: Adela
Released: June 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Dr. Henry Mills a very renowned cardiac specialist, disagrees with his wife, because of their religious beliefs, and more particularly because it encourages his son Ernesto to follow the priesthood. Mills is unfaithful to his wife, Isabel. She knows her husband's betrayal, and he secretly decides to separate, without sharing the marital bed, but keeping a secret from society.
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¡Viva la juventud!
Title: ¡Viva la juventud!
Released: May 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donkeys that were popular at that time. A mechanic is mistaken for the best player in the Polytechnic, while in the Unam a student discovers a formula for superpowers to play football. Both compete for the love of a rookie and to win the students classic.
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El sultán descalzo
Title: El sultán descalzo
Character: Cristina Mena
Released: March 31, 1956
Type: Movie
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
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Who are our daughters with?
Title: Who are our daughters with?
Character: Lucía
Released: March 29, 1956
Type: Movie
The story of a group of young people and the problems they face in modern society slowly begins to decline, due to family disintegration and loss of values.
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El 7 leguas
Title: El 7 leguas
Character: Adelita
Released: December 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
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Lo que le pasó a Sansón
Title: Lo que le pasó a Sansón
Character: Semadar
Released: October 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson.
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La fuerza de los humildes
Title: La fuerza de los humildes
Released: September 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian.
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To Hell with Women
Title: To Hell with Women
Released: February 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Title: Dos tipos de cuidado
Character: María
Released: November 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.