Maruja Grifell
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 6, 1907
Place of Birth: Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Known For
Dos tipos de cuidado
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.
¡A volar, joven!
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.
¡Acá las Tortas!
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Perdida
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Aventurera
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.
Músico, poeta y loco
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.
The Great Madcap
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.
Reportaje
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
The Other
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Las infieles
Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
Filmography
as Madre de Maria Luisa
as Madre de Alberto
as Esposa de Susanito
as (uncredited)
as Milagros
as Tía Elena
as Actriz (uncredited)
as Party guest
as Matilde (uncredited)
as Dueña salón de belleza (sin créditos)
as Espectadora desfile de modas
as Eulalia
as Laura's aunt
as "La Fragata"
as Enriqueta
as Mrs. Perfecta
as Carlota
as Marquesa del Valle
as Mamá de Arturo
as Consuelo Tejero, Elena's mother
as Madame
as La Turca
as Invited to party
as Milagros
as Madame Mimi
as Madre de Felipe
as La güera
as Madre de Roberto (uncredited)
as Profesora (uncredited)
as Teresa
as Tía Rosario (Chayo)
as Esposa de Alfonso
as Doña Encarna
as Sirvienta (uncredited)
as Portera
as Matilde
as Francesa
as Reverenda madre
as Ruiz wife
as Bruja Pirulí