Maruja Grifell

Maruja Grifell

Born: February 7, 1907
Died: May 26, 1968
in Mexico City, Mexico

Movies for Maruja Grifell...

La vida de Pedro Infante
Title: La vida de Pedro Infante
Character: Madre de Maria Luisa
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
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El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Title: El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Released: January 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
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Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Title: Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Released: July 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
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Rogaciano el huapanguero
Title: Rogaciano el huapanguero
Released: August 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
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Good Love
Title: Good Love
Released: February 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
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Pancho López
Title: Pancho López
Released: February 8, 1957
Type: Movie
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
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The Innocent
Title: The Innocent
Character: Madre de Alberto
Released: September 20, 1956
Type: Movie
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
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The Stone Crucifix
Title: The Stone Crucifix
Released: June 15, 1956
Type: Movie
A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
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Ladies Club
Title: Ladies Club
Character: Esposa de Susanito
Released: April 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
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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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Cuidado con el amor
Title: Cuidado con el amor
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
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La visita que no tocó el timbre
Title: La visita que no tocó el timbre
Character: Milagros
Released: September 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.
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¿Por qué ya no me quieres?
Title: ¿Por qué ya no me quieres?
Character: Tía Elena
Released: June 3, 1954
Type: Movie
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El casto Susano
Title: El casto Susano
Released: May 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
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Camelia
Title: Camelia
Character: Actriz (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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Reportaje
Title: Reportaje
Character: Party guest
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Title: Dos tipos de cuidado
Character: Matilde (uncredited)
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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No te ofendas, Beatriz
Title: No te ofendas, Beatriz
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them.
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El mensaje de la muerte
Title: El mensaje de la muerte
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
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Mujeres que trabajan
Title: Mujeres que trabajan
Character: Espectadora desfile de modas
Released: April 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
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Me traes de un ala
Title: Me traes de un ala
Character: Eulalia
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
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Siete mujeres
Title: Siete mujeres
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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El mar y tu
Title: El mar y tu
Character: "La Fragata"
Released: March 7, 1952
Type: Movie
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Acapulco
Title: Acapulco
Character: Enriqueta
Released: January 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
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From Can-Can to Mambo
Title: From Can-Can to Mambo
Character: Mrs. Perfecta
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
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Sandwiches Here!
Title: Sandwiches Here!
Character: Carlota
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
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Manos de seda
Title: Manos de seda
Character: Marquesa del Valle
Released: July 4, 1951
Type: Movie
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In the Flesh
Title: In the Flesh
Character: Mamá de Arturo
Released: February 24, 1951
Type: Movie
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
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Si usted no puede, yo sí
Title: Si usted no puede, yo sí
Released: February 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
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Historia de un corazón
Title: Historia de un corazón
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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El grito de la carne
Title: El grito de la carne
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Aventurera
Title: Aventurera
Character: Consuelo Tejero, Elena's mother
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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Una mujer decente
Title: Una mujer decente
Released: October 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Attracted by Armando, Rosa, comes to him in love. Armando travels to Paris and his return contract an advantageous marriage to Margaret. Rosa gets pregnant and is fired from her job. He goes to work as a dancer in a theater, where he acquired fame under the name Alma Rosa. Meanwhile, Armando's marriage is not going well. One night cabaret where acts Alma Rosa and then become lovers.
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Inmaculada
Title: Inmaculada
Character: Madame
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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Esposa o amante
Title: Esposa o amante
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
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Perdida
Title: Perdida
Character: La Turca
Released: June 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
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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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The Great Madcap
Title: The Great Madcap
Character: Milagros
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
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Confidencias de un ruletero
Title: Confidencias de un ruletero
Character: Madame Mimi
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
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Felipe de Jesús
Title: Felipe de Jesús
Character: Madre de Felipe
Released: August 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
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El pecado de Laura
Title: El pecado de Laura
Character: La güera
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
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A Family Like Many Others
Title: A Family Like Many Others
Character: Madre de Roberto (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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Salon Mexico
Title: Salon Mexico
Character: Profesora (uncredited)
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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Flor de caña
Title: Flor de caña
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
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El gallo giro
Title: El gallo giro
Released: August 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Mom and Pop want him to settle down , but the youngun's convinced he could be a big star singing rancheras; he convinces his folks to give him six months in the big city to launch a career and prove himself.
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Una aventura en la noche
Title: Una aventura en la noche
Character: Esposa de Alfonso
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
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Músico, poeta y loco
Title: Músico, poeta y loco
Released: May 8, 1948
Type: Movie
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
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¡A volar, joven!
Title: ¡A volar, joven!
Character: Doña Encarna
Released: December 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
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Quite a Gentleman
Title: Quite a Gentleman
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.
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The Other One
Title: The Other One
Character: Sirvienta (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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Cantaclaro
Title: Cantaclaro
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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La mujer de todos
Title: La mujer de todos
Character: Portera
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
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Bugambilia
Title: Bugambilia
Character: Matilde
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
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The Abandoned
Title: The Abandoned
Character: Francesa
Released: May 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
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Adulterio
Title: Adulterio
Released: March 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
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La monja alférez
Title: La monja alférez
Character: Reverenda madre
Released: July 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
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Another Dawn
Title: Another Dawn
Character: Ruiz wife
Released: November 18, 1943
Type: Movie
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
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Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho
Title: Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho
Character: Bruja Pirulí
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.