Elena Lucena

Acting

Elena Lucena

Born 1914-09-25 · Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Elena Lucena (1914-2015) was an Argentinian actress, dancer and singer. She started her career as a singer on Argentine radio in the 1930s and became famous for the personification of her character Chimbela, who was later adapted for cinema, theater, and television. She appeared in multiple films in the 1940s, usually playing the comic-relief character.

Acting credits

Chimbela poster
9.0

A young woman protects and falls in love with a fugitive accused of murder.

Chimbela

1939

No artwork available
8.5

Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.

El calavera

1958

La murga poster
7.5

The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.

La murga

1963

La calle Corrientes poster
10.0

Going against his family's will, a lawyer becomes a tango singer.

La calle Corrientes

1943

El ángel de trapo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El ángel de trapo

1940

El galleguito de la cara sucia poster
10.0

Amorous misadventures of a warehouse clerk rejected for his condition.

El galleguito de la cara sucia

1966

La que no perdonó poster
6.2

A mother takes her husband away from her daughter; the first falls into misery and this is forced to marry a man who does not love.

La que no perdonó

1938

Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tienda poster
7.5

Rich girl with progressive ideas goes undercover as a sales clerk at her father's department store.

Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tienda

1942

When My Heart Calls poster
9.0

A singer married to a gambler is accused of murder.

When My Heart Calls

1942

No artwork available
10.0

The son of an entrepreneur is strongly attracted to a magazine theater showgirl.

Estrellas de Buenos Aires

1956

La casa de Madame Lulú poster
7.7

In the 1930s a young revolutionary falls in love with a young woman of innocent appearance but who really works in a brothel.

La casa de Madame Lulú

1968

A Madcap Widow poster
3.5

The attractive, exuberant and beautiful Flor Tetis Soutien de Gambeta (Isabel Sarli), an ostentatious woman who kills men, has just been widowed for the eighth time. All her fortune was fading little by little and she now she is about to be ruined. But suddenly he sees her good luck reappear: A little canillita (newspaper seller), Pepe Mangiabróccoli (Pepe Marrone), with a good heart, who suddenly becomes a millionaire by earning the prode and falls in love with her.

A Madcap Widow

1980

Joven, viuda y estanciera poster
9.5

The foreman of a ranch, secretly in love with the owner, tries to protect her from the gold diggers.

Joven, viuda y estanciera

1970

La Casa del Amor poster
10.0

A house in Buenos Aires where the oldest profession in the world is in practice.

La Casa del Amor

1973

Valentina poster
7.5

A young millionaire meets a mechanic who has invented a carburetor as a result of a breakdown in her car.

Valentina

1950

La rubia Mireya poster
9.5

The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.

La rubia Mireya

1948

Una noche cualquiera poster
8.0

An unsuccessful actor wants to get money from his uncle to mount a play, and seeks a woman and a child to make them look like his wife and son.

Una noche cualquiera

1951

Cinco besos poster
8.0

Love affairs in a theater: vedettes, sweethearts of chorus and scandals that include a millionaire.

Cinco besos

1946

Brother and Sister poster
6.7

They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.

Brother and Sister

2010

No artwork available
NR

It was never released commercially. Its plot is unknown.

Good Night, My Love

1961

Napoleón poster
7.0

Upon learning that he has two months to live, a man distributes his fortune among his pensioners, over time he is still alive and has been left without a penny.

Napoleón

1941

Buscando a Mónica poster
7.0

A man has a street accident with his car in his way to Buenos Aires. While he waits for his car repairing, this business man learns that everybody in the little town where he's stuck seem to know about his wife Mónica. He knows little about her past, but the reactions of the townsfolk towards him range from laughing at his back to practically don't want him around. He won't leave the town until he could learn more about the secret past of his wife. But the former life of the young beautiful mother of his daughter involves a turbulent story.

Buscando a Mónica

1962

Lua de Outubro poster
7.0

Arzabal wins land on the border. When he arrives to settle in, he finds himself confronted by the local political boss, unenthusiastic about his landing. Based on the play by Mario Arregui.

Lua de Outubro

2001

Un nuevo amanecer poster
10.0

A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.

Un nuevo amanecer

1942