Libertad Lamarque

Libertad Lamarque

Born: November 24, 1908
Died: December 12, 2000
in Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina
Libertad Lamarque (November 24, 1908 – December 12, 2000) was an Argentine actress and singer, one of the icons of the Golden Age of Argentine and Mexican cinema. She achieved fame throughout Latin America, and became known as “La Novia de América” (“The Sweetheart of the Americas”). By the time she died in 2000, she had appeared in 65 films (21 filmed in Argentina, 45 in Mexico and one in Spain) and six soap operas, had recorded over 800 songs and had made innumerable theatrical appearances.

Movies for Libertad Lamarque...

Title: Little Angel Face
Character: Madre Superiora Piedad de la Luz
Released: June 19, 2000
Type: TV
Carita de Angel is a remake of the telenovela Papa Corazon, which also was adapted for Mundo de juguete. Tells the story of Dulce Maria, a sweet, 5-year-old girl full of joy, compassion, and good feelings. After the death of her mother, her father Luciano Larios sinks into depression and lives abroad for a few years, leaving his daughter and loved ones behind. Dulce Maria enrolls in a Catholic boarding school for girls called "Reina de America" (Queen of America) to be taken care of by the nuns, as well as being taken care of by her uncle Gabriel, who is a priest.
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Title: Beyond Deceptions
Character: Abuela Piedad vda. de Bracho
Released: July 25, 1998
Type: TV
A few years pass after Paulina Martinez gets married to Carlos Daniel. She is now Paulina Bracho and she is now going to school. She has two loving step-children who love her and a new child of her own with Carlos Daniel. Everything seems like a happy end to the original story. But, when Paulina goes to the Doctor to check up on an exam, only the worst happens, she thinks she has anemia, but the doctor has discovered that she has cancer and has only 6 months to live, now she must hide her secret from her husband, his children and her new baby. She then must find courage in herself to tell everyone who loves her the truth...she also must set up Carlos Daniel with a new woman, she chooses the new maid and tells her the truth, but strangely enough Paulina does not seem to deteriorate form her illness, the maid becomes anxious and wants Carlos Daniel to fall in love with her, she would do anything to get his hands on him even if it meant ending Paulina's life...
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Title: Deceptions
Character: Abuela Piedad vda de Bracho
Released: February 9, 1998
Type: TV
The show's premise revolves around a pair of twin sisters who were separated when they were young, and as adults the younger sister is forced to act as a "replacement" for her wealthy twin who wants to temporarily leave her husband and his family to enjoy a life of luxury with multiple lovers.
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Title: Siempre lunes
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 8, 1988
Type: TV
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La mamá de la novia
Title: La mamá de la novia
Released: May 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Mother and daughter are both pop singers, but mom wants her little girl to get married. Wacky complications.
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La loca de los milagros
Title: La loca de los milagros
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Retired singer with a history of mental illness acts as housemother for a gaggle of young adult 'friends' who exploit and disrespect her.
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Black Is Beautiful
Title: Black Is Beautiful
Character: Eugenia
Released: October 3, 1974
Type: Movie
An affluent Mexican performer is troubled when her son announces his intentions to marry a Black American woman, and her daughter exhibits erratic behavior.
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Hoy he soñado con Dios
Title: Hoy he soñado con Dios
Released: June 28, 1972
Type: Movie
Aging widow interferes in the lives of her adult children.
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La sonrisa de mamá
Title: La sonrisa de mamá
Character: Angéloca Zamora
Released: March 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother.
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Rosas blancas para mi hermana negra
Title: Rosas blancas para mi hermana negra
Character: Laura
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
The story revolves around Laura, a white singer, and Angustias, her longtime black friend, with both mothers dedicated to the education of their daughters: Alicia and Roberta. Trouble ensues when Laura’s daughter, Alicia, falls in love with Ricardo, a young black medical student.
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The Prodigal Son
Title: The Prodigal Son
Character: Alegría Román
Released: July 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
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Arrullo de Dios
Title: Arrullo de Dios
Released: September 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.
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La vida de Pedro Infante
Title: La vida de Pedro Infante
Character: (archive footage)
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
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Los hijos que yo soñé
Title: Los hijos que yo soñé
Released: May 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Grieving widow finds new purpose in life as director of an orphanage.
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Canta mi corazón
Title: Canta mi corazón
Released: March 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Teen-pop singer launches his career. Family conflicts and girlfriend troubles.
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Canción del alma
Title: Canción del alma
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Life in a theatre-people hotel, mostly focusing on a singer and her young-adult daughter who just graduated from an expensive private school.
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Heaven and Earth
Title: Heaven and Earth
Character: Sor Lucero / Hermana María de la Luz
Released: November 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
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Bello recuerdo
Title: Bello recuerdo
Character: Lucy
Released: October 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist.
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Amor en la sombra
Title: Amor en la sombra
Character: Claudia Montes
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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Creo en ti
Title: Creo en ti
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A rich young woman marries a man who will disappoint her emotionally and financially.
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La cigüeña dijo sí
Title: La cigüeña dijo sí
Released: July 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.
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The Sin of a Mother
Title: The Sin of a Mother
Character: Ana María
Released: March 20, 1960
Type: Movie
A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...
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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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My Parents Are Divorced
Title: My Parents Are Divorced
Character: Diana Valdés
Released: May 28, 1959
Type: Movie
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Sabrás que te quiero
Title: Sabrás que te quiero
Released: December 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
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Music of Always
Title: Music of Always
Released: July 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
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Cuatro copas
Title: Cuatro copas
Released: April 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
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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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Backstage
Title: Backstage
Released: May 2, 1957
Type: Movie
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
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Golden Wedding
Title: Golden Wedding
Released: October 24, 1956
Type: Movie
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
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Historia de un amor
Title: Historia de un amor
Released: February 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.
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Music School
Title: Music School
Character: Laura Galván
Released: October 12, 1955
Type: Movie
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La mujer X
Title: La mujer X
Character: Adriana
Released: April 6, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
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Si volvieras a mi
Title: Si volvieras a mi
Character: Alejandra
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
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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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La infame
Title: La infame
Character: Cristina Ferrán
Released: January 21, 1954
Type: Movie
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
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Reportaje
Title: Reportaje
Character: Unemployed Singer
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Anxiety
Title: Anxiety
Released: October 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to their very different social backgrounds.
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Nunca es tarde para amar
Title: Nunca es tarde para amar
Released: July 31, 1953
Type: Movie
A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
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Remember to Live
Title: Remember to Live
Character: Yolanda
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
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Forgotten Faces
Title: Forgotten Faces
Character: Rosario Velazquez
Released: October 18, 1952
Type: Movie
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
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Mi campeón
Title: Mi campeón
Character: Cantante
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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Te Sigo Esperando
Title: Te Sigo Esperando
Released: June 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Romantic melodrama
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La loca
Title: La loca
Character: Elena Prim viuda de Villaseñor
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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La marquesa del barrio
Title: La marquesa del barrio
Released: March 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.
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Huellas del pasado
Title: Huellas del pasado
Character: Isabel / Issa Valetti
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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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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La dama del velo
Title: La dama del velo
Character: Andrea del Monte
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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Soledad
Title: Soledad
Character: Soledad / Cristina Palermo
Released: November 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
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Gran Casino
Title: Gran Casino
Character: Mercedes Irigoyen
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
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Romance musical
Title: Romance musical
Character: Mecha Garay
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
A man thinks he's being cheated and hires a detective to watch over his wife on a cruise, but she hires a singer to impersonate her.
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La cabalgata del circo
Title: La cabalgata del circo
Character: Nita
Released: May 30, 1945
Type: Movie
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
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El fin de la noche
Title: El fin de la noche
Character: Lola Morel
Released: November 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
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Eclipse de sol
Title: Eclipse de sol
Character: Sol Bernal
Released: July 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.
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En el viejo Buenos Aires
Title: En el viejo Buenos Aires
Released: June 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
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I Knew That Woman
Title: I Knew That Woman
Released: January 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The misadventures of a singer accused of murder are remembered by different people.
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Una vez en la vida
Title: Una vez en la vida
Character: María Cristina Campos
Released: July 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman helps a man escape from the police and ends up falling in love with him.
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Appointment at the Border
Title: Appointment at the Border
Released: September 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing them to turn against each other.
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La casa del recuerdo
Title: La casa del recuerdo
Released: March 20, 1940
Type: Movie
An old woman remembers when her daughter fell in love with a young neighbor, and she and her husband did everything to break that relationship.
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Caminito de Gloria
Title: Caminito de Gloria
Released: September 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace. Later, she goes blind.
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Puerta cerrada
Title: Puerta cerrada
Character: Nina Miranda
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.
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La ley que olvidaron
Title: La ley que olvidaron
Character: María
Released: March 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The employee of a boarding house raises the daughter of a single mother and loves her so much that she kidnaps the girl and goes to jail.
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Madreselva
Title: Madreselva
Character: Bianca
Released: January 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
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Bewitching Kisses
Title: Bewitching Kisses
Character: Marga
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A singer is kidnapped by a rancher and her boyfriend comes to rescue her.
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Ayúdame a vivir
Title: Ayúdame a vivir
Character: Luisita
Released: August 26, 1936
Type: Movie
While studying at a Catholic boarding school, the young Luisa meets a boy, Julio, who talks to her from the street and through the gate. However, the girl's arrogant older brother removes her from the establishment and takes her to live in her family house. The beginning of love between Luisa and Julio is made even more difficult by what seems to be the beginning of a disease in her.
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El alma del bandoneón
Title: El alma del bandoneón
Character: Elda
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.
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¡Tango!
Title: ¡Tango!
Character: Elena
Released: April 26, 1933
Type: Movie
¡Tango! follows a formula established by Carlos Gardel with films such as Luces de Buenos Aires (The Lights of Buenos Aires, 1931) in which a melodramatic story is interspersed with tango songs. However, the film had less dialog and more music, making it more like a musical revue. This format would be copied by many subsequent films. The plot is derived from tango songs. Many of these songs tell of the seduction of an innocent slum girl by a rich man who promises her a glamorous life, but who abandons her when her looks fade. The stylized and sentimental plot of ¡Tango! revolves around a young man who is abandoned by his girlfriend for an older rich man and is heartbroken. The film follows his misfortunes.
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Adiós, Argentina
Title: Adiós, Argentina
Character: Bride of Homeless
Released: January 2, 1930
Type: Movie