
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
8.5A 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
5.5Catita 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
7.2A 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
6.2Cándida 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
6.4Ladylike 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
6.0Mrs. 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
9.0A 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
7.0A young man is forced for economic reasons to work as a ranch in the south of Argentina and there he tries to conquer a rich heiress.
The novel of a poor young man
1968
9.5Cándida 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ya tiene comisario el pueblo
1967
1950s · 9 titles
5.5Catita 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
6.2Cándida 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
6.4Ladylike 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
6.0Mrs. 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
8.0After 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
5.7Cándida'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
10.0Catita 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
5.5Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.
Crazy Love
1953
5.4Housewife 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
8.5A 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
7.2A 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
8.0A 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
7.0Catita intercedes when a producer courts a chorus girl who is the director's girlfriend.
Yo quiero ser bataclana
1941
5.8The 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
9.7A 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
9.0Cándida 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
7.0Catita 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
7.0After 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
7.0In 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
7.5Young doctor falls in love with a nurse, but his parents insist he marry someone from his own economic class.
Porteña de corazón
1948
8.0A 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
6.8When 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
8.5A 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
9.0Dizzy secretary with a knack for embroidering the truth is identified as the heiress of a big mystery estate.
The Little Liar
1942
7.2Servant 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
Musical with some of Argentina's most famous singers.
Buenos Aires canta
1947
9.0In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
Madame Sans-Gêne
1945
10.0A 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
1930s · 3 titles
8.2A 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
7.0In 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
6.7Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she mets a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
Cándida
1939
Behind the camera
9.0Cándida 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
5.7Cándida'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
6.7Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she mets a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
Cándida
1939



