
Acting
Carolina Barret
Born — Died
1916-10-21 — 2009-10-13
Place of birth
Veracruz, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
The beautiful actress Carolina Barret (October 20, 1916 - October 13, 2009) was an actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema as a supporting character with an extensive career and designated as an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In addition to dedicating her life to Mexican cinema, she participated in several U.S. productions. In his last years he made some telenovelas. ARIEL AWARDS. - 1947 Actress Canaima (Winner). - 1956 Supporting actress Espaldas mojadas (Winner). - 1974 Female co-actress Calzonzín inspector (Nominated).
Known for
8.0A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
The Unknown Policeman
1941
8.1Cantinflas 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 hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Fly Away, Young Man!
1947
7.4Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Gran Hotel
1944
7.6With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
Así es mi tierra
1937
5.3Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970
6.4When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
How Beautiful is Michoacan!
1943
Film credits
1980s · 2 titles
1970s · 5 titles
5.3Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970
5.8Famed wrestler/secret agent El Santo must venture deep into the Amazon jungle to rescue a girl who is set to be sacrificed under the full moon by the Jibaro Indians.
Santo vs. the Head Hunters
1971
7.0While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Tivoli
1975
7.5A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.
Inspector Calzonzin
1974
4.8Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
El metiche
1972
1960s · 5 titles
5.4The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
El día de la boda
1968
5.8Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Suerte Te De Dios
1961
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
Cinco en la cárcel
1968
6.9A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
Time to Die
1966
5.6Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.
The Revenge of Hurricane Ramírez
1969
1950s · 13 titles
5.5Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
Adventure in Rio
1953
8.2A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Damned City!
1954
6.8Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.
Espaldas mojadas
1955
6.4Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Black Pit of Dr. M
1959
5.8Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Vuelva el sábado
1951
5.6A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
The Living Coffin
1959
5.7María dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.
La vida tiene tres días
1955
6.5For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
La infame
1954
6.4Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Ladrones de niños
1958
6.3Mexican feature film
Los amantes
1956
6.0Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
Cuarto de hotel
1953
6.0The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.
Médico de guardia
1950
6.6Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
As negro
1954
1940s · 31 titles
8.0A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
The Unknown Policeman
1941
8.1Cantinflas 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 hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Fly Away, Young Man!
1947
7.4Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Gran Hotel
1944
6.4When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
How Beautiful is Michoacan!
1943
5.8Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
Las cinco noches de Adán
1942
7.0Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Hooray for Women!
1943
5.6Romantic comedy/drama.
Como yo te quería
1945
6.2Roberto on a journey to Mexico knows to Maria de La Paz, a woman older than he, who falls in love, she also has feelings for him, but doesn't give him hopes cause she is married. Fate reunites them without imagine it, they will have to face a moral dilemma.
La razón de la culpa
1943
6.7A love triangle of which the beach and the sea will witness.
Murallas de pasión
1944
6.2After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
Viva Mi Desgracia
1944
6.3Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Cinco minutos de amor
1941
5.8Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
1946
6.7"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Cinco rostros de mujer
1947
6.3Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
Eterna agonía
1949
6.2Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.
Santa
1943
6.7Mexican movie
Lazos de fuego
1948
6.4A broken high society man tries to keep his family expensive lifestyle by tricking a rich man from out of the town to marry his well intended daughter.
Al son de la marimba
1940
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Unidos por el eje
1942
5.0The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
Escándalo de estrellas
1944
6.2Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Qué hombre tan simpático
1943
4.4A 1942 film.
¡Cuando la tierra tembló!
1942
6.1Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him.
Canaima
1945
5.4Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
La santa del barrio
1948
6.7A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is forced to flee to an undeveloped region of India. There, he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a disease the natives term "Amok," while his past mistakes still plague him.
Amok
1944
6.3A 1940 film directed by Enrique Herrera.
Los apuros de Narciso
1940
6.0Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her.
Cruel destino
1944
6.8Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Flor de caña
1948
6.7An 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.
Quite a Gentleman
1947
6.0A doctor becomes entangled in the world of opium, leading to a series of tragic events that affect his personal and professional life.
Opium
1949
6.3All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
The Last Adventure
1946
5.7Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
Tragic Weddings
1946
1930s · 4 titles
7.6With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
Así es mi tierra
1937
6.3Adapted from "Le mortel baiser", a stage play by French writer Loïc Le Gouriadec (also known as Paul Gury). The story follows Cecilia, the daughter of a wealthy and conservative family, who is about to marry the son of the town's mayor. When a physician specializing in venereal diseases arrives in town, he examines Cecilia's fiancé and informs him that he is still suffering from syphilis, which has advanced significantly since he contracted it years earlier.
El beso mortal
1938
5.7Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Canto a mi tierra
1938
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Hombres del aire
1939


