Rosita Arenas

Acting

Rosita Arenas

Born

1933-08-19 (93)

Place of birth

Caracas, Venezuela

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Rosa "Rosita" Arenas (born 19 August 1933) is a Mexican actress whose film career was most prominent during the 1950s and 1960s. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela, the daughter of Spanish actor Miguel Arenas. At age 16, she was named Reina de la Primavera (Queen of the Spring), and subsequently made her film debut in Anacleto se divorcia (1950). She received more important roles in ¡¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?! (1951), with Pedro Infante and Luis Aguilar, and El señor fotógrafo (1953), with Cantinflas. She also tried her hand at singing; in Los chiflados del rock and roll (1957), she sang the songs "Se me hizo fácil", "Serenata huasteca", and "Qué manera de perder".

Known for

Valeria y Maximiliano poster
7.4

Valeria y Maximiliano is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from December 23, 1991, to May 1, 1992. Created by Nora Alemán, the telenovela stars Leticia Calderón and Juan Ferrara. The story follows Valeria Landero, a beautiful, wealthy, and strong-willed young woman whose pride and impulsive nature bring conflict to her family. After rejecting the obsessive Román de la Fuente, she becomes the target of his revenge, which threatens to destroy everything she loves. Throughout her struggles, Maximiliano Riva remains by her side, and together they must overcome betrayal, ambition, and family intrigue before finding true love.

Valeria y Maximiliano

1991

Senda de gloria poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Senda de gloria

1987

The Brute poster
6.9

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

The Brute

1953

Mr. Photographer poster
8.3

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Mr. Photographer

1953

El niño de las monjas poster
6.0

When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows, manifest a decided vocation for bullfighting and, although his adoptive father did not endorse, struggle to achieve his dream.

El niño de las monjas

1959

Attack of the Mayan Mummy poster
3.4

A scientist seeking loot of the Nile regresses a woman to her past incarnation, a princess in ancient Egypt. (Edited from the Mexican horror film LA MOMIA AZTECA, and follows its general plot but with 36 minutes of new, American-made footage and English narration in lieu of dubbed dialogue for the original footage.)

Attack of the Mayan Mummy

1964

Film credits

1960s · 14 titles

Attack of the Mayan Mummy poster
3.4

A scientist seeking loot of the Nile regresses a woman to her past incarnation, a princess in ancient Egypt. (Edited from the Mexican horror film LA MOMIA AZTECA, and follows its general plot but with 36 minutes of new, American-made footage and English narration in lieu of dubbed dialogue for the original footage.)

Attack of the Mayan Mummy

1964

Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots poster
5.7

The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.

Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots

1962

Face of the Screaming Werewolf poster
4.2

A scientist experimenting with past lives finds a reincarnated Aztec who can lead him to lost treasure—and to a creature that should remain lost. (Composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror films, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new American-made footage.)

Face of the Screaming Werewolf

1965

The Curse of the Crying Woman poster
6.9

A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.

The Curse of the Crying Woman

1963

El hombre que perdió el tren poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

El hombre que perdió el tren

1960

Neutron and the Black Mask poster
5.3

Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.

Neutron and the Black Mask

1962

The Witch's Mirror poster
6.9

A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.

The Witch's Mirror

1962

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte poster
5.1

Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte

1963

Twist: Locura de juventud poster
6.2

The Legion Of Decent Decency is determined to shut down a nightclub where live rock and roll bands play and young people dance The Twist.

Twist: Locura de juventud

1962

El amor que yo te dí poster
6.4

Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences.

El amor que yo te dí

1960

Muchachas que trabajan poster
6.4

Working in a department store exposes young ladies to corrupting influences.

Muchachas que trabajan

1961

Casi Casados poster
6.0

A poor mechanic is conned into taking the place of a wealthy business magnate so the rich man can take off to work on some major wheeling and dealing. Sure enough, the impostor is trapped in a series of circumstances beyond his control that lead him right to the altar. Once he is wed -- or rather, once the rich businessman is unknowingly wed by proxy, the tycoon returns from his trip with the subsequent surprises in store for all concerned.

Casi Casados

1961

Dios sabrá juzgarnos poster
5.6

Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.

Dios sabrá juzgarnos

1961

Mujeres engañadas poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mujeres engañadas

1961

1950s · 32 titles

The Brute poster
6.9

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

The Brute

1953

Mr. Photographer poster
8.3

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Mr. Photographer

1953

El niño de las monjas poster
6.0

When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows, manifest a decided vocation for bullfighting and, although his adoptive father did not endorse, struggle to achieve his dream.

El niño de las monjas

1959

¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? poster
8.2

This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.

¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?

1951

The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy poster
3.0

A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.

The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy

1958

La ladrona poster
6.3

Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.

La ladrona

1954

Historia de un marido infiel poster
6.7

Marital problems and Ofelia’s physical and mental illness (Rosa Carmina) drive Emilio (Francisco Petrone) to seek pleasure. He meets Carmina, a prostitute who, together with her pimp, plans to ruin him by mocking his situation.

Historia de un marido infiel

1956

No artwork available
6.2

Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.

Hay ángeles con espuelas

1957

Diez fusiles esperan poster
7.0

During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only wanted to see his newborn baby.

Diez fusiles esperan

1959

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy poster
4.1

The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy

1957

Vístete Cristina poster
5.8

Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.

Vístete Cristina

1959

Mi campeón poster
5.5

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

Mi campeón

1952

Fierecilla poster
4.3

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...

Fierecilla

1951

Los tres mosqueteros y medio poster
7.3

Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.

Los tres mosqueteros y medio

1957

Un indiano en Moratilla poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Un indiano en Moratilla

1958

El genial Detective Peter Pérez poster
5.8

A clumsy investigator must unravel a deadly mystery when a passenger is killed during a long-distance rail journey.

El genial Detective Peter Pérez

1952

3 Lessons of Love poster
6.0

The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.

3 Lessons of Love

1959

School for Buglars poster
7.7

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

School for Buglars

1958

The Aztec Mummy poster
4.6

A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.

The Aztec Mummy

1957

La hija del ministro poster
6.5

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.

La hija del ministro

1952

La sombra de Cruz Diablo poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

La sombra de Cruz Diablo

1955

The Black Whip vs. The Hanging Ghost poster
5.5

A sinister legend comes to life when a ghostly figure haunts the countryside, spreading fear and chaos. The Black Whip confronts the supernatural threat head-on, battling both earthly enemies and a terrifying phantom.

The Black Whip vs. The Hanging Ghost

1959

Los solterones poster
6.2

Pop, Bro and Sis all take a vow never to (re)marry after Mom walks out on them.

Los solterones

1953

No artwork available
6.5

Unanimously flunking his professional medical exam, Apolonio dabbles with more enthusiasm than idea in ballet, theater, painting and sculpture before establishing himself as the "doctor of the madwomen". Supported by his unconditional girlfriend Maruca, the young man prescribes music to the deranged ladies who visit him to be treated in his magical therapeutic chair.

The Doctor of the Crazy Women

1955

Anacleto Gets Divorced poster
6.8

Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.

Anacleto Gets Divorced

1950

La noche y el alba poster
5.6

Pedro, a street photographer who fought during the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, becomes obsessed with a young model.

La noche y el alba

1958

No artwork available
6.0

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

Rogaciano el huapanguero

1957

No artwork available
6.0

A string of crimes threatens to expose the true identity of the mysterious vigilante. As suspicion grows, The Black Whip must outwit both villains and pursuers to keep his secret safe while continuing his fight for justice.

The Mystery of The Black Whip

1958

No artwork available
6.7

Mexican feature film

Tu recuerdo y yo

1953

The Black Whip poster
6.2

When a ruthless gang terrorizes innocent townsfolk, a masked avenger known only as The Black Whip rises to deliver justice. Armed with his bullwhip and cunning disguise, he becomes the people's secret defender.

The Black Whip

1958

No artwork available
6.0

A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.

El gallo colorado

1957

La gitana blanca poster
6.7

Nina, a gypsy girl, promised to the future leader of her tribe, falls in love with Roberto, a depressed violinist.

La gitana blanca

1954

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