Mona Maris
Acting
Biography
Rosa Emma Mona María Marta Capdevielle, artistically known as Mona Maris (November 7, 1903, Buenos Aires - ibid., March 23, 1991), was an Argentine film actress who acted in Europe and the USA during the first period of cinema. She became known in Argentina as The Pride of the Pampas.
Born: November 7, 1903
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known For
South of the Rio Grande
Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.
Downhill
Carlos Acosta (Carlos Gardel) watches fate work out a solution that allows him to return to his real love after trips to Paris and New York City.
The Lady of the Camelias
Margarita, a French courtesan, experiences genuine love for first time in the arms of much-younger Armand.
Camila
In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.
Once in a Lifetime
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
A Date with the Falcon
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Underground
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Pacific Rendezvous
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
Law of the Tropics
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
The Passionate Plumber
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
Filmography
as La Perichona
as Marquisa Velasquez (uncredited)
as Ambassador's Wife
as Raquel
as Princess Azala
as Dolores Garcia
as Carla
as Marika
as Olivia Kerlov
as Countess Mariana Rossini
as Rita Mara
as Rita Marshall
as Ms. Gessner
as Ketti Moret
as Self (archive footage)
as Leilani
as Raquel
as Countess Rita
as Señora Lolita Martinez
as Mrs. Agnes Avery
as Phyllis Fontaine (uncredited)
as Lilaya
as Consuela Delgado
as Nina Estrados
as Fraulein Lolita
as Rosita Fernandez
as Lolita Roberto
as Lorita
as Manuelita
as Mona Bermond
as Tatjana
as Princess Antoinette
as Lisette Blanchard