Prudencia Grifell

Acting

Prudencia Grifell

Born — Died

1879-12-27 — 1970-06-07

Place of birth

Lugo, Galicia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico. Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940. Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tue…

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 8 titles

1950s · 42 titles

The Third Word poster
7.0

A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.

The Third Word

1956

La ladrona poster
6.3

Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.

La ladrona

1954

Entre tu amor y el cielo poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Entre tu amor y el cielo

1950

Pensión de artistas poster
7.2

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.

Pensión de artistas

1956

Recién casados... no molestar poster
5.6

Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.

Recién casados... no molestar

1951

El plagiario poster
5.7

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

El plagiario

1955

The Devil's Money poster
6.0

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.

The Devil's Money

1953

Después de la tormenta poster
6.8

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.

Después de la tormenta

1955

Two Faces Have the Destiny poster
6.2

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

Two Faces Have the Destiny

1952

Little Red Riding Hood poster
7.5

The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.

Little Red Riding Hood

1959

Tale of a Heart poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tale of a Heart

1951

Al diablo las mujeres poster
6.0

Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.

Al diablo las mujeres

1955

Mi desconocida esposa poster
5.4

After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.

Mi desconocida esposa

1958

El genial Detective Peter Pérez poster
5.8

A clumsy investigator must unravel a deadly mystery when a passenger is killed during a long-distance rail journey.

El genial Detective Peter Pérez

1952

The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman poster
6.8

Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.

The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman

1955

El ruiseñor del barrio poster
5.8

Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?

El ruiseñor del barrio

1952

Angel Face poster
6.2

Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.

Angel Face

1956

Esposa o amante poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Esposa o amante

1950

The Man That Pleases Me poster
5.8

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.

The Man That Pleases Me

1958

Sublime melodía poster
6.0

Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.

Sublime melodía

1956

La dama del alba poster
6.3

Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries. And meanwhile, there's a mysterious woman in black who shows up at the hacienda just before somebody dies.

La dama del alba

1950

La sexta carrera poster
6.5

Mexican feature film

La sexta carrera

1953

The Smile of the Virgin poster
5.7

Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where she discovers Virgin Guadalupe and the legend about her apparitions in that place. Marita doesn't behave properly in school, and her teacher always has a punishment for the girl. She doesn't like school, and she doesn't want to return to school anymore. Besides, Marita's worried about her animals, like a cow who doesn't produce milk. The girl asks many miracles of Virgin Guadalupe, one of them is to not have to go to school. During a visit to the Basilica, Marita hears the Virgin's voice, and this could be the beginning of a responsible life for the girl, like to study and to be a good child.

The Smile of the Virgin

1958

Un minuto de bondad poster
6.4

A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors.

Un minuto de bondad

1954

Inmaculada poster
6.3

A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.

Inmaculada

1950

Mujeres que trabajan poster
6.1

Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.

Mujeres que trabajan

1953

Una mujer en la calle poster
4.8

An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.

Una mujer en la calle

1955

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

Prisionera del pasado poster
5.5

Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.

Prisionera del pasado

1954

Cuando me vaya poster
6.8

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.

Cuando me vaya

1954

No artwork available
5.8

The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.

Pepito and the Monster

1957

El monstruo en la sombra poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El monstruo en la sombra

1955

Melodías de amor poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Melodías de amor

1955

The Force of Desire poster
4.1

Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.

The Force of Desire

1955

Póker de ases poster
6.5

Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.

Póker de ases

1952

Over the Waves poster
6.1

The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.

Over the Waves

1950

The Vivanco Ladies poster
7.0

Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.

The Vivanco Ladies

1959

Mi adorado salvaje poster
5.4

The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.

Mi adorado salvaje

1952

Las infieles poster
7.0

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.

Las infieles

1953

Lodo y Armiño poster
5.6

Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.

Lodo y Armiño

1951

Préstame tu cuerpo poster
6.3

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.

Préstame tu cuerpo

1958

X Murderer poster
5.4

A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.

X Murderer

1955

1940s · 9 titles