Niní Marshall

Acting

Niní Marshall

Born — Died

1903-05-31 — 1996-03-18

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Niní Marshall, born Marina Esther Traveso, was an Argentine actress, screenwriter and comedian. She is well known for creating two emblematic satirical characters, Cándida and Catita, two archetypes of 20th century European immigration, with whom she participated in a large part of her films.

Known for

Navidad de los pobres poster
8.5

A woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.

Navidad de los pobres

1947

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

Hay que educar a Niní poster
7.2

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.

Hay que educar a Niní

1940

Los enredos de una gallega poster
6.2

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.

Los enredos de una gallega

1951

Una gallega baila mambo poster
6.4

Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.

Una gallega baila mambo

1951

Dios los cría poster
6.0

Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...

Dios los cría

1953

Film credits

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 9 titles

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

Los enredos de una gallega poster
6.2

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.

Los enredos de una gallega

1951

Una gallega baila mambo poster
6.4

Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.

Una gallega baila mambo

1951

Dios los cría poster
6.0

Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...

Dios los cría

1953

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari poster
8.0

After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari

1950

Una gallega en La Habana poster
5.7

Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.

Una gallega en La Habana

1955

Catita is a lady poster
10.0

Catita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.

Catita is a lady

1956

Crazy Love poster
5.5

Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.

Crazy Love

1953

La alegre casada poster
5.4

Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.

La alegre casada

1952

1940s · 19 titles

Navidad de los pobres poster
8.5

A woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.

Navidad de los pobres

1947

Hay que educar a Niní poster
7.2

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.

Hay que educar a Niní

1940

The Headless Woman poster
8.0

A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.

The Headless Woman

1947

Yo quiero ser bataclana poster
7.0

Catita intercedes when a producer courts a chorus girl who is the director's girlfriend.

Yo quiero ser bataclana

1941

Una gallega en México poster
5.8

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.

Una gallega en México

1949

Santa Cándida poster
9.7

A woman of high society dies, leaving a large part of her assets to her domestic worker, who must deal with the envy and jealousy of her relatives.

Santa Cándida

1945

Los celos de Cándida poster
9.0

Cándida and Jesús decide to purchase a Bed and Breakfast in Buenos Aires. But in the hostel already lived an Italian opera singer that provokes the jealousy of Cándida.

Los celos de Cándida

1940

Luna de miel en Río poster
7.0

Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them to achieve their ends.

Luna de miel en Río

1940

Cándida, la mujer del año poster
7.0

After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.

Cándida, la mujer del año

1943

Mosquita muerta poster
7.0

In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.

Mosquita muerta

1946

Porteña de corazón poster
7.5

Young doctor falls in love with a nurse, but his parents insist he marry someone from his own economic class.

Porteña de corazón

1948

Orquesta de señoritas poster
8.0

A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.

Orquesta de señoritas

1941

Marriage in Buenos Aires poster
6.8

When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up such love affairs.

Marriage in Buenos Aires

1940

Carmen poster
8.5

A woman faints during an opera performance and dreams that she is the protagonist and when she is about to die, she wakes up.

Carmen

1943

The Little Liar poster
9.0

Dizzy secretary with a knack for embroidering the truth is identified as the heiress of a big mystery estate.

The Little Liar

1942

Cándida millonaria poster
7.2

Servant in a wealthy household and her employer unexpectedly get all romantical together. His daughter isn't so keen on the marriage when it happens.

Cándida millonaria

1941

No artwork available
9.0

Musical with some of Argentina's most famous singers.

Buenos Aires canta

1947

Madame Sans-Gêne poster
9.0

In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.

Madame Sans-Gêne

1945

Mujeres que bailan poster
10.0

A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.

Mujeres que bailan

1949

Behind the camera