
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
9.0A young woman protects and falls in love with a fugitive accused of murder.
Chimbela
1939
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
7.5The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.
La murga
1963
10.0Going against his family's will, a lawyer becomes a tango singer.
La calle Corrientes
1943
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El ángel de trapo
1940
10.0Amorous misadventures of a warehouse clerk rejected for his condition.
El galleguito de la cara sucia
1966
6.2A 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
7.5Rich girl with progressive ideas goes undercover as a sales clerk at her father's department store.
Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tienda
1942
9.0A singer married to a gambler is accused of murder.
When My Heart Calls
1942
The son of an entrepreneur is strongly attracted to a magazine theater showgirl.
Estrellas de Buenos Aires
1956
7.7In 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
3.5The 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
9.5The foreman of a ranch, secretly in love with the owner, tries to protect her from the gold diggers.
Joven, viuda y estanciera
1970
10.0A house in Buenos Aires where the oldest profession in the world is in practice.
La Casa del Amor
1973
7.5A young millionaire meets a mechanic who has invented a carburetor as a result of a breakdown in her car.
Valentina
1950
9.5The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.
La rubia Mireya
1948
8.0An 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
8.0Love affairs in a theater: vedettes, sweethearts of chorus and scandals that include a millionaire.
Cinco besos
1946
6.7They 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
It was never released commercially. Its plot is unknown.
Good Night, My Love
1961
7.0Upon 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
7.0A 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
7.0Arzabal 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
10.0A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.
Un nuevo amanecer
1942