Manolita Saval

Acting

Biography

Manolita Saval (5 February 1914 Paris, France – 23 August 2001 Mexico City, Mexico) was a Spanish actress and singer. She studied music and drama in Spain, and began her career performing the opera Marina in Valencia. As a lyric interpreter, she toured Latin America, eventually settling in Mexico in 1938. Over the course of her career, she appeared in over 30 films and television programs, as well as in plays, operettas, and operas. She was born in Paris of Spanish parents and named 'Juana María Saval'. She was the mother of the actor Manuel Saval, and the niece of the Spanish opera singer Vicente Ballester Aparício. Saval died in Mexico City on August 23, 2001 of cardiac arrest due to thrombosis.

Born: February 5, 1914

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Known For

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Madres egoístas

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The Minister and Me

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

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Dos Criados Malcriados

Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.

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El baisano Jalil

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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El capitán Malacara

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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Fantasía ranchera

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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María Eugenia

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 Capitan Aventurero

Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.

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Pobre diablo

An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.