Rosita Arenas

Acting

Rosita Arenas

Born 1933-08-19 · Caracas, Venezuela

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".

Acting credits

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

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

The Brute poster
7.0

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

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

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

Cambiando el destino poster
5.6

A musical band of teens travel by plane to a scheduled event where they will perform in scenario have an accident and get lost in the middle of the desert.

Cambiando el destino

1992

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mujeres engañadas poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mujeres engañadas

1961

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

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

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

¿Me permites matarte? poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

¿Me permites matarte?

1994

Twist: Locura de juventud poster
6.3

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

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

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

No artwork available
6.7

Mexican feature film

Tu recuerdo y yo

1953

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

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