Niní Marshall

Niní Marshall

Born: May 31, 1903
Died: March 18, 1996
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Niní Marshall, born Marina Esther Traveso, was an Argentine actress, screenwriter and comedian. She is well known for creating two emblematic satirical characters, Cándida and Catita, two archetypes of 20th century European immigration, with whom she participated in a large part of her films.

Movies for Niní Marshall...

La película de Niní
Title: La película de Niní
Released: November 3, 2005
Type: Movie
A portrait of the life of Niní Marshall, one of the greatest Argentine actresses and comedians. The film includes an enormous amount of excerpts from her films, interviews, documents, radio appearances and live shows.
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¡Qué linda es mi familia!
Title: ¡Qué linda es mi familia!
Character: Rosita
Released: July 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A rebel son decides not to follow his father steps to follow his dreams of fame and popularity.
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Vamos a soñar por el amor
Title: Vamos a soñar por el amor
Character: Ana
Released: April 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A 1971 film.
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The novel of a poor young man
Title: The novel of a poor young man
Character: Carolina
Released: April 11, 1968
Type: Movie
A young man is forced for economic reasons to work as a ranch in the south of Argentina and there he tries to conquer a rich heiress.
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Ya tiene comisario el pueblo
Title: Ya tiene comisario el pueblo
Character: Doña Sofocación
Released: July 13, 1967
Type: Movie
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Escándalo en la familia
Title: Escándalo en la familia
Character: Loli
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.
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Cleopatra era Cándida
Title: Cleopatra era Cándida
Character: Cleopatra García Pérez / Cándida
Released: April 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Cándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..
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Catita is a lady
Title: Catita is a lady
Character: Catita
Released: June 7, 1956
Type: Movie
Catita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.
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Una gallega en La Habana
Title: Una gallega en La Habana
Character: Cándida
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
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Dios los cría
Title: Dios los cría
Character: Nínive Canovas Canesi
Released: September 15, 1953
Type: Movie
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...
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Crazy Love
Title: Crazy Love
Character: Juana / Juana La Loca / Catalina
Released: February 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.
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La alegre casada
Title: La alegre casada
Released: October 16, 1952
Type: Movie
Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.
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Mi campeón
Title: Mi campeón
Character: Doña Lupe; Cándida (as Nini Marshal)
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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Los enredos de una gallega
Title: Los enredos de una gallega
Character: Cándida
Released: October 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.
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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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Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Title: Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Character: Niní / agenteX25 / Carmiña / Surabaya
Released: August 21, 1950
Type: Movie
After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
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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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Mujeres que bailan
Title: Mujeres que bailan
Character: Catita
Released: May 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.
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Porteña de corazón
Title: Porteña de corazón
Released: April 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Young doctor falls in love with a nurse, but his parents insist he marry someone from his own economic class.
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Navidad de los pobres
Title: Navidad de los pobres
Released: August 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.
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Buenos Aires canta
Title: Buenos Aires canta
Released: June 3, 1947
Type: Movie
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The Headless Woman
Title: The Headless Woman
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.
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Mosquita muerta
Title: Mosquita muerta
Character: Dionisia / Madmoiselle Mosquita
Released: April 23, 1946
Type: Movie
In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.
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Santa Cándida
Title: Santa Cándida
Character: Cándida Lourelio Ramayaga
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman of high society dies, leaving a large part of her assets to her domestic worker, who must deal with the envy and jealousy of her relatives.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Title: Madame Sans-Gêne
Character: Catalina, duquesa de Dancing, "Madame Sans Gene"
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Carmen
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman faints during an opera performance and dreams that she is the protagonist and when she is about to die, she wakes up.
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Cándida, la mujer del año
Title: Cándida, la mujer del año
Character: Cándida Loueiro Ramallada
Released: February 23, 1943
Type: Movie
After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.
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La mentirosa
Title: La mentirosa
Character: Niní
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
Dizzy secretary with a knack for embroidering the truth is identified as the heiress of a big mystery estate.
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Cándida millonaria
Title: Cándida millonaria
Character: Cándida
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Servant in a wealthy household and her employer unexpectedly get all romantical together. His daughter isn't so keen on the marriage when it happens.
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Orquesta de señoritas
Title: Orquesta de señoritas
Character: Nina / Giovannina
Released: May 21, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.
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Yo quiero ser bataclana
Title: Yo quiero ser bataclana
Character: Catita
Released: April 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Catita intercedes when a producer courts a chorus girl who is director's girlfriend.
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Luna de miel en Río
Title: Luna de miel en Río
Character: Catita
Released: October 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them to achieve their ends.
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Hay que educar a Niní
Title: Hay que educar a Niní
Character: Niní
Released: July 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.
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Los celos de Cándida
Title: Los celos de Cándida
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Cándida and Jesús decide to purchase a Bed and Breakfast in Buenos Aires. But in the hostel already lived an Italian opera singer that provokes the jealousy of Cándida.
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Marriage in Buenos Aires
Title: Marriage in Buenos Aires
Character: Catita
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up such love affairs.
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Cándida
Title: Cándida
Character: Cándida
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she mets a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
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Divorce in Montevideo
Title: Divorce in Montevideo
Character: Catita
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
In order to get rid of his exgirlfriend, a rich boy marries a manicurist, agreeing to divorce months later. The deal is carried out, but the young man sincerely falls in love with her and desperately seeks her out to remarry.
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Mujeres que trabajan
Title: Mujeres que trabajan
Character: Catita
Released: July 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.