
Prudencia Grifell
Acting
Biography
Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico. Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940. Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles.
Known For

The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
Little Red Riding Hood

It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
El señor doctor

An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
Una mujer en la calle

Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where she discovers Virgin Guadalupe and the legend about her apparitions in that place. Marita doesn't behave properly in school, and her teacher always has a punishment for the girl. She doesn't like school, and she doesn't want to return to school anymore. Besides, Marita's worried about her animals, like a cow who doesn't produce milk. The girl asks many miracles of Virgin Guadalupe, one of them is to not have to go to school. During a visit to the Basilica, Marita hears the Virgin's voice, and this could be the beginning of a responsible life for the girl, like to study and to be a good child.
The Smile of the Virgin

Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Soledad

Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
The Vivanco Ladies

Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
The Force of Desire

The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
The Third Word

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Two Faces Have the Destiny

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Pensión de artistas

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Melodías de amor

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
The Devil's Money

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.
Adultery

A puritanical man travels to the capital to visit nightclubs and introduces himself as a bachelor, but to his surprise, he finds himself there with his wife.
Los nietos de Don Venancio

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Apartment house

Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
Prisionera del pasado

Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.
Pepito and the Monster

Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
México nunca duerme

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.