María Calvo
Acting
Biography
No biography available for María Calvo.
Born: August 14, 1892
Place of Birth: Zaragoza, Spain
Known For
Cantinflas Ruletero
Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking them to their destination.
The Three Musketeers
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Playing at Politics
Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.
Hombre o demonio
A 1940 film.
Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier
Madrid, Spain, 1880. Angelina, daughter of the pompous Brigadier Marcial, is tempted by the womanizer Germán, who asks her to run away together, just after her boyfriend, Rodolfo, asks her to do exactly the same thing with him.
Common Clay
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
Estrellados
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
Sevilla de mis Amores
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent. Spanish version of MGM's Call of the Flesh.
Filmography
as Josefina Miralles
as Estefania, doncella
as Mother Superior
as Lulu Laponco
as La Mamà Rosas