Elvira Quintana
Acting
Biography
Spanish-born Mexican actress, singer, and poet. her family migrated to Mexico when she was 5 years old. She began her career working in theatre and later participated in films as an extra. Her first important role was as Carmen Ochoa in "Una solución inesperada", a segment of the drama film Canasta de cuentos mexicanos (1956). She then enrolled in the National Association of Actors' theatre and film institute (Instituto Teatral y Cinematográfico). She was given her first starring role in El buen ladrón (1957) before her breakthrough in Bolero inmortal (1958), in which she debuted as a singer; the film's soundtrack album, for which she recorded songs, was a commercial success throughout Hispanic America. She starred opposite Pedro Armendáriz, her favorite actor, in Dos hijos desobedientes (1960). Greatly admired by audiences for her beauty and talent, she became one of the most popular Mexican performers of the 1960s.
Known For
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
Dos hijos desobedientes
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Gutierritos
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Los tigres del ring
Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then...
The Cha Cha Cha Widows
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
El vestido de novia
An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of American football and moral rectitude. You ain't gonna sire no babies out of wedlock on Father Lambert's watch, no siree!
Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Póker de reinas
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."
Duelo indio
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
Basket of Mexican Tales
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
The Curse of the Doll People
Second film in the Tigres del ring series.
Diabolical Kidnapping
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Tres Romeos y una Julieta
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Melodías de amor
Three monks raise the boy Antonio, who was abandoned at the convent door. The monks are criticized for the way they have educated Antonio, who ends up being a joker.
De hombre a hombre
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
El pueblo sin Dios
Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
Every Child a Cross to Bear
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La mafia del crimen
Controlling papa won't let his daughters have boyfriends.
Tres palomas alborotadas
Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
El Siete de Copas
Millionaire goes slumming, meets a girl...