Maruja Grifell

AKA: María Martínez Grifell
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1907-02-06

Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {60}

Francesa

1945-05-18 5.7

The Abandoned

A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mex ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1956-06-15 5

The Stone Crucifix

A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugt ...
Genre :Drama

1950-10-18 5.5

Una mujer decente

Attracted by Armando, Rosa, comes to him in love. Armando travels to Paris and his return contract an advantageous marriage to Margaret. Rosa gets pregnant and is fired from her job. He goes to work a ...
Genre :

Madre de Alberto

1956-09-20 6.5

The Innocent

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Madre de Maria Luisa

1966-04-20 4.7

La vida de Pedro Infante

Genre :Drama, Music

1947-07-17 5

Todo un caballero

An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

1951-01-01 5

El grito de la carne

Mexican feature film ...
Genre :

1951-01-01 5

Historia de un corazón

Genre :Drama, Romance

1965-07-29 5

Aquella Rosita Alvírez

Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance. ...
Genre :

Bruja Pirulí

1943-01-01 5

Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho

Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico. ...
Genre :Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Mrs. Perfecta

1951-11-15 5.7

From Can-Can to Mambo

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

1954-05-20 5.6

El casto Susano

Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city. ...
Genre :

1948-11-10 5

Flor de caña

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner. ...
Genre :

Carlota

1951-10-12 7.9

¡Acá las Tortas!

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds. ...
Genre :Drama

Milagros

1954-09-11 6.4

La visita que no tocó el timbre

Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby. ...
Genre :

Esposa de Susanito

1956-04-12 5.4

Ladies Club

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

1957-02-08 5.5

Pancho López

A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to fin ...
Genre :

1948-08-19 5

El gallo giro

Mom and Pop want him to settle down , but the youngun's convinced he could be a big star singing rancheras; he convinces his folks to give him six months in the big city to launch a career and prove h ...
Genre :

1957-08-08 5.5

Rogaciano el huapanguero

Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly. ...
Genre :

La Turca

1950-06-03 7.8

Perdida

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and... ...
Genre :Drama

1951-02-15 5.6

Si usted no puede, yo sí

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want re ...
Genre :

Esposa de Alfonso

1948-07-09 5.6

An Adventure in the Night

After a party, two friends pick up two beautiful girls with whom they spend a wonderful night. The next day, the two friends return to look for them and a neighbor surprises them when she tells them t ...
Genre :Crime, Romance, Thriller

Madre de Roberto (uncredited)

1949-03-11 6.9

A Family Like Many Others

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman. ...
Genre :Drama

Reverenda madre

1944-07-27 5.7

La monja alférez

A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, o ...
Genre :Adventure, History

Madame Mimi

1949-11-16 6.3

Confidencias de un ruletero

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

1948-05-08 7.1

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 ...
Genre :Comedy

Doña Encarna

1947-12-23 8.022

¡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 h ...
Genre :Comedy

Milagros

1949-11-25 7.23

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 ...
Genre :Comedy

Actriz (uncredited)

1954-02-16 5

Camelia

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Ruiz wife

1943-11-18 6.7

Another Dawn

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends i ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Thriller

Matilde

1945-11-02 5.6

Bugambilia

In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going t ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Sirvienta (uncredited)

1946-11-20 6.944

The Other

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Profesora (uncredited)

1949-02-25 6.4

Salon Mexico

Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Matilde (uncredited)

1953-11-05 8.311

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, a ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

(uncredited)

1954-12-08 6.6

Cuidado con el amor

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Western

Eulalia

1953-02-05 5.9

Me traes de un ala

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman lo ...
Genre :Comedy

Consuelo Tejero, Elena's mother

1950-10-18 7.7

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 "Pre ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Crime

1946-01-24 6

Cantaclaro

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself. ...
Genre :

1966-01-06 5.6

El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte

Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action. ...
Genre :

Invited to party

1950-05-24 5

La vida en broma

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1945-03-01 4.6

Adulterio

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate. ...
Genre :

Tía Elena

1954-06-03 5

¿Por qué ya no me quieres?

Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1957-02-28 5

Good Love

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1953-05-21 5.5

No te ofendas, Beatriz

Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them. ...
Genre :

Madre de Felipe

1949-08-05 6

Felipe de Jesús

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Espectadora desfile de modas

1953-04-22 6

Mujeres que trabajan

Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support. ...
Genre :Drama

1955-02-15 5

..Y mañana serán mujeres

Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa. ...
Genre :

"La Fragata"

1952-03-07 5.5

El mar y tu

Genre :

Party guest

1953-11-13 6.9

Reportaje

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Marquesa del Valle

1951-07-04 5.5

Manos de seda

Genre :Drama, Crime

Madame

1950-09-15 5

Inmaculada

A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Enriqueta

1952-01-18 5.8

Acapulco

Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

La güera

1949-05-26 5.5

Laura's Sin

Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Portera

1946-01-11 5.7

Everybody’s Woman

A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back. ...
Genre :Drama

1953-05-02 5.3

El mensaje de la muerte

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Mamá de Arturo

1951-02-24 5

In the Flesh

A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Music

1950-06-21 5

Esposa o amante

Genre :Drama

1953-01-01 5

Siete mujeres

Mexican feature film ...
Genre :

1954-12-09 5

¿Mujer... o fiera?

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Tía Rosario (Chayo)

1948-07-30 5

Enrédate y verás

A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance