Mimí Derba

Mimí Derba

Born: January 1, 1893
Died: July 14, 1953
in Mexico City, Mexico
Mimí Derba (1893–1953) was a Mexican actress and the first female director in Mexico. Derba founded one of the very first Mexican production companies, Azteca Films. She had a successful career in Vaudeville before entering films.

Movies for Mimí Derba...

Dos tipos de cuidado
Title: Dos tipos de cuidado
Character: Doña Josefa
Released: November 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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Cuatro horas antes de morir
Title: Cuatro horas antes de morir
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
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The Absentee
Title: The Absentee
Character: Doña Elena, madre de Isabel
Released: May 7, 1952
Type: Movie
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
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Sangre en el barrio
Title: Sangre en el barrio
Released: April 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
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Acapulco
Title: Acapulco
Character: Abuela de Ricardo
Released: January 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
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Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Title: Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Character: Doña Beatriz
Released: November 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
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Mi mujer no es mía
Title: Mi mujer no es mía
Released: October 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
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Historia de un corazón
Title: Historia de un corazón
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Title: Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Character: Mamá de Bertha
Released: December 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
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Rosauro Castro
Title: Rosauro Castro
Character: Doña Margarita
Released: December 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
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La loca de la casa
Title: La loca de la casa
Character: Madre superiora
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
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Inmaculada
Title: Inmaculada
Character: Madre de Luis Angel
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
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La vida en broma
Title: La vida en broma
Character: Doña Eugenia
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: Doña Emilia
Released: May 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
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La hija del penal
Title: La hija del penal
Released: November 9, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
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The Seminarian
Title: The Seminarian
Character: Nun
Released: November 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
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Prisión de sueños
Title: Prisión de sueños
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
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Rondalla
Title: Rondalla
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
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La malquerida
Title: La malquerida
Character: Dona Mercedes
Released: September 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
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El abandonado
Title: El abandonado
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
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Salon Mexico
Title: Salon Mexico
Character: Señora directora
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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You the Rich
Title: You the Rich
Character: La Millonaria
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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Fantasía ranchera
Title: Fantasía ranchera
Released: February 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
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Cuando lloran los valientes
Title: Cuando lloran los valientes
Character: Mamá de Cristina
Released: January 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
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Rocambole
Title: Rocambole
Character: Madre de Antonieta
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.
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La casa de la zorra
Title: La casa de la zorra
Released: December 6, 1945
Type: Movie
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
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El capitán Malacara
Title: El capitán Malacara
Released: June 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
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Me he de comer esa tuna
Title: Me he de comer esa tuna
Released: March 1, 1945
Type: Movie
In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
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Una gitana en México
Title: Una gitana en México
Character: Doña Engracia
Released: January 11, 1945
Type: Movie
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Woman Without a Soul
Title: Woman Without a Soul
Character: Mamá de Teresa
Released: October 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
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La trepadora
Title: La trepadora
Released: September 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
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Balajú
Title: Balajú
Character: Doña Lupe
Released: August 24, 1944
Type: Movie
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Felipe Derblay, el herrero
Title: Felipe Derblay, el herrero
Released: February 26, 1944
Type: Movie
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Porfirio Díaz
Title: Porfirio Díaz
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Mexican movie
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A Letter of Love
Title: A Letter of Love
Character: Doña Rosa
Released: November 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama.
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El espectro de la novia
Title: El espectro de la novia
Released: September 2, 1943
Type: Movie
British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one of them.
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Wild Flower
Title: Wild Flower
Character: Doña Clara
Released: April 24, 1943
Type: Movie
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
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La razón de la culpa
Title: La razón de la culpa
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy.
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María Eugenia
Title: María Eugenia
Character: Virginia
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
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El baisano Jalil
Title: El baisano Jalil
Released: December 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
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Adios mi chaparrita
Title: Adios mi chaparrita
Character: Doña Panchita
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
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Café Concordia
Title: Café Concordia
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to a party at his home but she is snubbed by his mother and offended by a slighted pretender. Ernesto faces this man in a duel in which he is about to be killed by his rival, but Raquel protects his body and receives the bullet. She dies in Ernesto's arms.
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Refugiados en Madrid
Title: Refugiados en Madrid
Character: La marquesa
Released: May 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A 1938 film.
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María
Title: María
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
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Martín Garatuza
Title: Martín Garatuza
Released: September 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.
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Santa
Title: Santa
Character: Doña Elvira
Released: March 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
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La soñadora
Title: La soñadora
Released: September 20, 1917
Type: Movie
La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
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Soul Sacrifice
Title: Soul Sacrifice
Released: July 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
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In Self Defense
Title: In Self Defense
Released: June 14, 1917
Type: Movie
The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio Mancera, for whom she works as governess for her little daughter. After a while, the two fall in love and get married. But then, Julio's cousin Eva returns from Europe and tries to separate the couple. She is almost successful, but her plans are thwarted at a party she throws for Julio and his friends, where she is surprised by Julio, Enriqueta, and the other guests in a compromising situation with Julio's best friend, Mauricio.
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In the Shadow
Title: In the Shadow
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie