Anita Blanch

Anita Blanch

Born: July 26, 1910
Died: April 23, 1983
in Valencia, Spain
Anita Blanch (July 26, 1910 – April 23, 1983) was a Spanish-born, Mexican actress, who worked in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was nominated for an Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film three times and won the Best Supporting Actress Award from Diosa de Plata (Silver Goddess Award) in 1963.

Movies for Anita Blanch...

El testamento
Title: El testamento
Character: Señorita Pilar Suárez Aragones
Released: June 10, 1981
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
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Pubertinaje
Title: Pubertinaje
Released: February 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
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Balún Canán
Title: Balún Canán
Character: La maestra
Released: May 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
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El hombre del puente
Title: El hombre del puente
Released: September 8, 1976
Type: Movie
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
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Omen
Title: Omen
Character: Mamá Santos
Released: February 13, 1975
Type: Movie
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
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Los perros de Dios
Title: Los perros de Dios
Released: September 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.
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Faith, Hope and Charity
Title: Faith, Hope and Charity
Character: Doña Lolita (segment "Esperanza")
Released: February 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
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Mujercitas
Title: Mujercitas
Released: December 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Extremely loose adaptation of Little Women, set in 1970s; three teenaged girls and a younger sister live alone after the death of their parents.
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Renzo el gitano
Title: Renzo el gitano
Released: August 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Rodolfo wants to marry the aristocrat Adriana who rejects him. Humberto, her brother, kills a man for her. Rodolfo attributes the crime to the gypsy Renzo so that Adriana will gratefully marry him. Renzo is sent to the island of the condemned, where he is left for dead.
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Mi mesera
Title: Mi mesera
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Days of Love
Title: The Days of Love
Released: March 20, 1972
Type: Movie
In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen. This film tells the story of one boy's sexual coming-of-age during that time, punctuated by a peasant rebellion sparked by religious concerns (Catholicism had been officially suppressed). The lad has a crush on the wife of the Army man sent to put down the rebellion. He also has an affair with a local woman and briefly runs away with a pretty young prostitute.
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Un tipo a todo dar
Title: Un tipo a todo dar
Character: Abuela
Released: October 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.
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Tlayucan
Title: Tlayucan
Character: Señorita Prisca
Released: December 27, 1962
Type: Movie
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
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Ellas también son rebeldes
Title: Ellas también son rebeldes
Character: Cristina Elizondo
Released: April 20, 1961
Type: Movie
The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
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The Man and the Monster
Title: The Man and the Monster
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
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Yo pecador
Title: Yo pecador
Released: September 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
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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 salvajes
Title: Los salvajes
Character: doña Ana
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
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La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Title: La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Released: July 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
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La faraona
Title: La faraona
Character: Jesusita
Released: December 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
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El mil amores
Title: El mil amores
Character: Señorita Directora
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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Magdalena
Title: Magdalena
Released: April 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.
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Damned City!
Title: Damned City!
Character: Mrs. María
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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El gran mentiroso
Title: El gran mentiroso
Released: August 22, 1953
Type: Movie
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling.
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Adventure in Rio
Title: Adventure in Rio
Character: Julia Galván
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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Lullaby
Title: Lullaby
Released: April 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent.
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Misericordia
Title: Misericordia
Released: March 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?
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Sor Alegría
Title: Sor Alegría
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
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Night Falls
Title: Night Falls
Character: Sara
Released: April 24, 1952
Type: Movie
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
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Mujeres sacrificadas
Title: Mujeres sacrificadas
Character: Ana, madre de Graciela
Released: May 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.
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The Barracks
Title: The Barracks
Character: Teresa
Released: May 27, 1945
Type: Movie
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
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Entre hermanos
Title: Entre hermanos
Character: Doña Encarnación
Released: May 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Mexican movie
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El abanico de Lady Windermere
Title: El abanico de Lady Windermere
Released: August 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.
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La pequeña madrecita
Title: La pequeña madrecita
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
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Miguel Strogoff
Title: Miguel Strogoff
Character: Sangarra Petrova
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.
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Tres hermanos
Title: Tres hermanos
Released: November 2, 1943
Type: Movie
The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
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Alejandra
Title: Alejandra
Character: Irene
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
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El conde de Montecristo
Title: El conde de Montecristo
Character: Condesa Eloisa de Villefort
Released: April 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
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¿Quién te quiere a tí?
Title: ¿Quién te quiere a tí?
Character: Milagros
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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Simón Bolívar
Title: Simón Bolívar
Character: Fanny du Villars
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
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La casa del rencor
Title: La casa del rencor
Character: Martina
Released: November 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
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Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Title: Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Character: Beatriz de Alpuche
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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Luponini (El terror de Chicago)
Title: Luponini (El terror de Chicago)
Character: Luisa Benítez
Released: January 2, 1935
Type: Movie