Mona Maris

Mona Maris

Born: November 7, 1903
Died: March 23, 1991
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rosa Emma Mona María Marta Capdevielle, artistically known as Mona Maris (November 7, 1903, Buenos Aires - ibid., March 23, 1991), was an Argentine film actress who acted in Europe and the USA during the first period of cinema. She became known in Argentina as The Pride of the Pampas.

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Camila
Title: Camila
Character: La Perichona
Released: May 17, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.
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The Lady of the Camelias
Title: The Lady of the Camelias
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Margarita, a French courtesan, experiences genuine love for first time in the arms of much-younger Armand.
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The Avengers
Title: The Avengers
Character: Yvonne
Released: June 10, 1950
Type: Movie
The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels and had thereby to kill a shark. Don tries to prevent the forced marriage of Mary with the ruthless revolutionary Colonel Luis Corral. An armed clash between Don and Luis seems inevitable.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Title: Monsieur Beaucaire
Character: Marquisa Velasquez (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Character: Ambassador's Wife
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
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The Falcon in Mexico
Title: The Falcon in Mexico
Character: Raquel
Released: August 4, 1944
Type: Movie
The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.
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The Desert Hawk
Title: The Desert Hawk
Character: Princess Azala
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlists the aid of the chief Chamberlain, Faud and they send several henchmen into the royal palace, who then knock Kasim unconscious. Faud and Hassan dispatch a couple of different hirelings to take Kasim into another part of the town and murder him.Kasin comes to and gets away, but has been wounded. Omar, a beggar, takes Kasim to his home and nurses him back to health. But, it takes a few weeks for Kasin to get healthy and, by that time, Hassan has a firm grip on the duties of a Caliph. In a storeroom, Kasim finds a coat of mail with a great hawk emblazoned across the chest and promptly decides this is the costume he will wear while fighting to get his old job back. Meanwhile, the Emir of Telif shows up with his daughter, Princess Azala, with the intent of marrying her off to the local Caliph.
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Tampico
Title: Tampico
Character: Dolores Garcia
Released: April 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
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Berlin Correspondent
Title: Berlin Correspondent
Character: Carla
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore) to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father (Erwin Kaiser) is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
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I Married an Angel
Title: I Married an Angel
Character: Marika
Released: July 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.
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Pacific Rendezvous
Title: Pacific Rendezvous
Character: Olivia Kerlov
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
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My Gal Sal
Title: My Gal Sal
Character: Countess Mariana Rossini
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day
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A Date with the Falcon
Title: A Date with the Falcon
Character: Rita Mara
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
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Law of the Tropics
Title: Law of the Tropics
Character: Rita Marshall
Released: October 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Ms. Gessner
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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Flight from Destiny
Title: Flight from Destiny
Character: Ketti Moret
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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The Eternal Jew
Title: The Eternal Jew
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
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The Singer of Naples
Title: The Singer of Naples
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A blacksmith's son from Naples rises to become a celebrated opera singer, performing at La Scala in Milan.
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White Heat
Title: White Heat
Character: Leilani
Released: December 30, 1934
Type: Movie
In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing to her, he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco. The spoiled girl does not easily adapt to the rigors of plantation life and she gets terribly bored. She is just about to give in to the romantic overtures of a persistent native when her former lover shows up. The husband gets jealous and is about to attack him when the wife sets fire to the cane field. The husband's native lover saves him from death. Afterward, his wife leaves to be with her old flame, and the manager is free to be with the woman he's loved all along.
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Cuesta abajo
Title: Cuesta abajo
Character: Raquel
Released: September 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Carlos Acosta (Carlos Gardel), tied to a flirty wife and in love with another girl, watches fate work out a solution that allows him to return to his real love after trips to Paris and New York City.
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Kiss and Make-Up
Title: Kiss and Make-Up
Character: Countess Rita
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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Una viuda romántica
Title: Una viuda romántica
Character: Estrella Polar
Released: October 14, 1933
Type: Movie
1933 Spanish language film.
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Secrets
Title: Secrets
Character: Señora Lolita Martinez
Released: March 16, 1933
Type: Movie
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
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Caliente Love
Title: Caliente Love
Character: Mexican Señorita
Released: March 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Can he get for himself some CALIENTE LOVE at the Casino, or will someone give him the sound thrashing he needs?
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Mrs. Agnes Avery
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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Once in a Lifetime
Title: Once in a Lifetime
Character: Phyllis Fontaine (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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The Man Called Back
Title: The Man Called Back
Character: Lilaya
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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South of the Rio Grande
Title: South of the Rio Grande
Character: Consuela Delgado
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.
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The Passionate Plumber
Title: The Passionate Plumber
Character: Nina Estrados
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
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Seas Beneath
Title: Seas Beneath
Character: Fraulein Lolita
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.
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When Love Laughs
Title: When Love Laughs
Released: December 26, 1930
Type: Movie
José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
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A Devil with Women
Title: A Devil with Women
Character: Rosita Fernandez
Released: October 17, 1930
Type: Movie
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
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Common Clay
Title: Common Clay
Released: September 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
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One Mad Kiss
Title: One Mad Kiss
Character: Rosario
Released: July 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Estrada, the chief government official of the region, has put a price on the head of José Savedra for causing the local people to rebel against his tax collectors. Dancer Rosario Montes also thinks that the tax levied against her "Fandango Café" is excessive and is not inclined to pay.
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Under a Texas Moon
Title: Under a Texas Moon
Character: Lolita Roberto
Released: April 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Lorita
Released: March 23, 1930
Type: Movie
The Arizona Kid (Warner Baxter) carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt (Carole Lombard), accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt (Theodore von Eltz), actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...
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Romance of the Rio Grande
Title: Romance of the Rio Grande
Character: Manuelita
Released: November 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy Don Fernando. Intending to bequeath his vast fortune and estate to his long-estranged grandson Pancho, Don Fernando must contend with his ne'er-do-well nephew Juan.
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Die drei Frauen von Urban Hell
Title: Die drei Frauen von Urban Hell
Character: May Lyssenhop
Released: December 4, 1928
Type: Movie
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Whirl of Youth
Title: Whirl of Youth
Released: November 5, 1928
Type: Movie
Heli's misfortune begins when her mother, the landlady, marries for the second time. The man is bossy and brutal. In an argument between stepfather and brother, Heli intervenes: She throws a hatchet, the stepfather falls and is killed.
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Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Title: Marquis d’Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
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La bonne hôtesse
Title: La bonne hôtesse
Character: Mona Bermond
Released: June 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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Die Leibeigenen
Title: Die Leibeigenen
Character: Tatjana
Released: January 11, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Masked Mannequin
Title: The Masked Mannequin
Character: Princess Antoinette
Released: September 7, 1927
Type: Movie
Because she has fallen in love with an unknown man, young princess Antoinette has fled to Berlin before her planned marriage with a prince. Incognito, she works for the fashion house Pappenheim, where salesman Egon Fürst falls for the young girl. Antoinette′s rigid uncle is sent to bring the royal runaway home, but he mistakes another mannequin for his niece, therefore taking the wrong girl to his castle in Baden-Baden. The whole Pappenheim company, including the princess, also goes to Baden-Baden for a fashion show, which means even more excitement and confusion.
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The Little People
Title: The Little People
Character: Lucia Morelli
Released: May 14, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Apache
Title: The Apache
Character: Lisette Blanchard
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.