María Gentil Arcos

María Gentil Arcos

Born: April 12, 1905
Died: July 18, 1965
in València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
María Gentil Arcos was an actress, known for Demonio y carne (1951), Campeón sin corona (1946) and Un divorcio (1953). She died on July 18, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Movies for María Gentil Arcos...

When mommy comes back
Title: When mommy comes back
Character: Doña Matilde (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1961
Type: Movie
A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without parental support.
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El gran espectáculo
Title: El gran espectáculo
Released: September 11, 1958
Type: Movie
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El gran premio
Title: El gran premio
Character: Anciana en asilo (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Released: July 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
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Hay ángeles con espuelas
Title: Hay ángeles con espuelas
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.
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Primavera en el corazón
Title: Primavera en el corazón
Released: September 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.
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Enemigos
Title: Enemigos
Released: August 16, 1956
Type: Movie
One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.
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Los margaritos
Title: Los margaritos
Character: Doña Queta
Released: April 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
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Padre contra hijo
Title: Padre contra hijo
Character: Eloisa Ruiz, madre de Juan de Dios
Released: August 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
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..Y mañana serán mujeres
Title: ..Y mañana serán mujeres
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.
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What a Man
Title: What a Man
Released: January 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
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Guanajuato Road
Title: Guanajuato Road
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.
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Chucho el Roto
Title: Chucho el Roto
Released: September 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Title: Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Character: Doña Gracia; madre de Raquel
Released: September 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
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Romance de fieras
Title: Romance de fieras
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
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Cuando me vaya
Title: Cuando me vaya
Released: June 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
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Las tres Elenas
Title: Las tres Elenas
Released: April 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Title: Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Character: Hermana religiosa
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
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Frontera norte
Title: Frontera norte
Character: Madre Lolita
Released: October 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
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Cuarto de hotel
Title: Cuarto de hotel
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
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Un divorcio
Title: Un divorcio
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
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Él
Title: Él
Character: Sirvienta en cena (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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El bombero atómico
Title: El bombero atómico
Character: Doña Cleofas (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
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A Place Close to Heaven
Title: A Place Close to Heaven
Character: Empleada despedida (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1952
Type: Movie
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
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La loca
Title: La loca
Character: Señora de Angostura
Released: May 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
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Far from Heaven
Title: Far from Heaven
Character: Trabajadora (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1952
Type: Movie
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
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Paco, el elegante
Title: Paco, el elegante
Character: Tia Consuelo
Released: January 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
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Doña Perfecta
Title: Doña Perfecta
Character: Librada
Released: October 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
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Women's prison
Title: Women's prison
Character: Guardia
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
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Nunca debieron amarse
Title: Nunca debieron amarse
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.
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Por querer a una mujer
Title: Por querer a una mujer
Released: September 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
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Monte de piedad
Title: Monte de piedad
Character: Doña Lupita, madre de María
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
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Fierecilla
Title: Fierecilla
Released: May 3, 1951
Type: Movie
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
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Susana
Title: Susana
Character: Felisa
Released: April 11, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
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Slum
Title: Slum
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
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Huellas del pasado
Title: Huellas del pasado
Character: Lupe, nana
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
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Las dos huerfanitas
Title: Las dos huerfanitas
Released: October 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.
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Aventurera
Title: Aventurera
Character: Petra, Rosaura's maid
Released: October 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
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They also sing of pain
Title: They also sing of pain
Character: Asistente de Facundo (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
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La vida en broma
Title: La vida en broma
Character: Invited to party
Released: May 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
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White hair
Title: White hair
Character: Lucía
Released: May 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
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El Portero
Title: El Portero
Character: Vecina chismosa (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
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Otra primavera
Title: Otra primavera
Released: April 27, 1950
Type: Movie
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?
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Guardián, el perro salvador
Title: Guardián, el perro salvador
Released: April 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
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Love Pays for Love
Title: Love Pays for Love
Released: January 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
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La dama del velo
Title: La dama del velo
Character: Asistente de Andrea
Released: June 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
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El Mago
Title: El Mago
Character: Clienta de Krishnar (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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A Family Like Many Others
Title: A Family Like Many Others
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1949
Type: Movie
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
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Comisario en turno
Title: Comisario en turno
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.
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Rosenda
Title: Rosenda
Character: Señorita Rocha
Released: October 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
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We the Poor
Title: We the Poor
Character: La Paralítica
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
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Ave de paso
Title: Ave de paso
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Mexican movie
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Los Cristeros
Title: Los Cristeros
Released: December 19, 1947
Type: Movie
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
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La reina del trópico
Title: La reina del trópico
Character: Doña Trini (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Released: October 25, 1946
Type: Movie
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Champion Without Crown
Title: Champion Without Crown
Character: Doña Gracia, Madre de Roberto (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Released: September 5, 1946
Type: Movie
A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.
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Caminos de sangre
Title: Caminos de sangre
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.
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The White Monk
Title: The White Monk
Character: Peregrina
Released: October 6, 1945
Type: Movie
In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.
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Woman Without a Soul
Title: Woman Without a Soul
Character: Mamá de Rosita
Released: October 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.