Sofía Álvarez

Sofía Álvarez

Born: May 23, 1913
Died: April 30, 1985
in Bogotá, Colombia
Carmen Sofía Álvarez Caicedo, better known as Sofía Álvarez (Bogotá, Colombia May 23, 1913 - Mexico City, Mexico April 30, 1985) was a Mexican film actress and singer of Colombian origin.

Born and raised in Colombia, she moved with her family to Mexico in 1928. Her film debut was a small part, in the role of a prostitute in Santa (1930), the first talkie of Mexican cinema. Popularly known as the lady of the long braids, she enjoyed popularity during the 1930s and 1940s as an actress and singer. Subsequently she performed with Mario Moreno Cantinflasin the popular film Ahí está el detalle (1940). In the 1940s, Álvarez is characterized by her interpretation of elegant ladies in films like El sombrero de tres picos and México de mis recuerdos (1943). She performed with the popular Pedro Infante in three films: Si me han de matar mañana (1946), La barca de oro (1947) and Soy charro de Rancho Grande (1947). One of her most celebrated films was La Reina de la Opereta (1945). In 1950 she left the cinema to continue as a radio singer. She returned to the cinema between 1957 and 1966, when she retired from the scenes. Her last film was El Gángster (1965), with Arturo de Córdova. She was noted for her excellent voice also that delicate features that printed her characters.

Movies for Sofía Álvarez...

El Hombre Búfalo
Title: El Hombre Búfalo
Character: Julieta
Released: August 28, 2020
Type: Movie
After a threat, a journalist stops publishing. His search for justice leads him to meet his destiny and a mythological being who takes care of the abandoned childhood.
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Ana and Bruno
Title: Ana and Bruno
Character: Betsy Rocola / Viuda Negra / Plañidera 1 / Plañidera 3
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Ana, a nine year old girl, arrives with her mother to an isolated beach with the intention to rest and to know the sea. There, she discovers that they are under a terrible threat, therefore she is obligated to look for help with her father in order to save her mother.
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Ladies' Night
Title: Ladies' Night
Character: Evelyn
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Romantic Comedy about two girls who find love in the most unexpected places in modern-day Mexico City.
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The Heart of the Night
Title: The Heart of the Night
Character: Paralítica II
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
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Un ángel de la calle
Title: Un ángel de la calle
Character: Dona Margarita Fontanares
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Doña Margarita, a lady of high society, wants for her son Pablo a wife of the same social level. He, however, loves the dressmaker’s daughter, whom he secretly marries thanks to the services of a priest friend. The couple must continue fighting against the matron’s crooked plans, until in an unfortunate accident, Pablo kills his wife’s stepfather and must flee to Europe. Years pass, and Pablo is unaware that he has a son. When he finally returns, thanks to the child, he reunites with the love of his life and definitively puts an end to the perverse plans of his mother.
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Los dos cuatreros
Title: Los dos cuatreros
Released: August 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Two wandering cowboys are falsely accused of murder.
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The Gangster
Title: The Gangster
Character: Margot / Maggie la verde
Released: July 8, 1965
Type: Movie
An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
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Tres muchachas de Jalisco
Title: Tres muchachas de Jalisco
Character: doña Lupe
Released: January 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes.
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A tiro limpio
Title: A tiro limpio
Released: January 28, 1960
Type: Movie
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La ley del más rápido
Title: La ley del más rápido
Released: December 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
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El puma
Title: El puma
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
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Un corazón en el ruedo
Title: Un corazón en el ruedo
Character: Raquel de Alba
Released: January 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.
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Ángeles de arrabal
Title: Ángeles de arrabal
Character: Lupe, La Tapatía
Released: August 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.
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La hermana impura
Title: La hermana impura
Released: March 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.
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Soy charro de Rancho Grande
Title: Soy charro de Rancho Grande
Character: Cristina
Released: November 6, 1947
Type: Movie
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La barca de oro
Title: La barca de oro
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
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Si me han de matar mañana
Title: Si me han de matar mañana
Released: May 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
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La niña de mis ojos
Title: La niña de mis ojos
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Classic movie of Mexican cinema.
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La reina de la opereta
Title: La reina de la opereta
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
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México de mis recuerdos
Title: México de mis recuerdos
Character: Rosario Medina
Released: April 6, 1944
Type: Movie
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
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Flor de fango
Title: Flor de fango
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc.
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You’re Missing the Point
Title: You’re Missing the Point
Character: Dolores del Paso de Lastre
Released: September 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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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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Shadow of Pancho Villa
Title: Shadow of Pancho Villa
Character: Valentina
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A 1933 film.
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Santa
Title: Santa
Character: Prostitute 1
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.