Niní Marshall

Acting

Niní Marshall

Born 1903-05-31 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

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.

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

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

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

Crazy Love poster
6.0

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

Crazy Love

1953

Escándalo en la familia poster
9.0

A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.

Escándalo en la familia

1967

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 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

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 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

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

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

Women Who Work poster
8.2

A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.

Women Who Work

1938

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

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

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

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

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

Hay que educar a Niní poster
6.9

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

¡Qué linda es mi familia! poster
6.0

A rebel son decides not to follow in his father's footsteps in order to follow his own dreams of fame and popularity.

¡Qué linda es mi familia!

1980

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

Cleopatra era Cándida poster
9.5

Cándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..

Cleopatra era Cándida

1964

Ya tiene comisario el pueblo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ya tiene comisario el pueblo

1967

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

Divorce in Montevideo poster
7.0

In order to get rid of his exgirlfriend, a rich boy marries a manicurist, agreeing to divorce months later. The deal is carried out, but the young man sincerely falls in love with her and desperately seeks her out to remarry.

Divorce in Montevideo

1939

Behind the camera