Mapy Cortés

Acting

Mapy Cortés

Born — Died

1910-03-01 — 1998-08-02

Place of birth

Santurce, Puerto Rico

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Maria del Pilar Cordero (March 1, 1910 – August 2, 1998), better known as Mapy Cortés, was a Puerto Rican actress who acted in many films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Cortés appeared in the U.S. State Department propaganda short film "Mexican Moods". In 1942, Cortés made her only foray into Hollywood cinema, playing a singer in the RKO wartime musical comedy Seven Days' Leave. Her eponymous character is engaged to Victor Mature's soldier character before he falls in love with a socialite played by Lucille Ball. After filming Seven Days Leave, Mapy Cortés returned to Mexico City and played roles in contemporary romantic comedies and nostalgia musicals set during the Mexican Bell…

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 5 titles

1940s · 22 titles

The Unknown Policeman poster
8.0

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.

The Unknown Policeman

1941

Las cinco noches de Adán poster
5.8

Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.

Las cinco noches de Adán

1942

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! poster
6.8

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!

1941

Yo bailé con Don Porfirio poster
6.0

Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.

Yo bailé con Don Porfirio

1942

Al marido hay que seguirlo poster
9.0

A doctor must pretend to be single and his wife follows him to the field causing a series of incidents.

Al marido hay que seguirlo

1948

El conde de Montecristo poster
5.6

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

El conde de Montecristo

1942

Seven Days' Leave poster
7.3

Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen. Not wanting to disrupt his planned marriage to Mapy, Johnny must figure out how to concoct a temporary marriage-of-convenience with the descendant -- who turns out to be the beautiful Terry Havelock-Allen.

Seven Days' Leave

1942

Cinco minutos de amor poster
6.3

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

Cinco minutos de amor

1941

Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9 poster
5.7

Focuses on the emotional life of two women, whose husbands, with labor excuses, make "outings" from 7 to 9 at night.

Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9

1946

Las tandas del principal poster
6.8

Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.

Las tandas del principal

1949

El amor las vuelve locas poster
5.4

Uni professor is voted "Hunkiest teacher of the year." Madcap complications.

El amor las vuelve locas

1946

El globo de Cantolla poster
5.8

Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.

El globo de Cantolla

1944

Papá se desenreda poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Papá se desenreda

1942

Un beso en la noche poster
6.3

The strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.

Un beso en la noche

1945

La hija del regimiento poster
6.4

In Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate and resorts to the reigning prince.

La hija del regimiento

1944

The Pharaoh's Court poster
6.2

The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.

The Pharaoh's Court

1944

La liga de las canciones poster
6.3

International committee mounts a revue to promote Pan-American unity. Showbiz hotel rom-com hilarity ensues.

La liga de las canciones

1941

El sexo fuerte poster
6.2

Two men are shipwrecked and arrive in the Kingdom of Eden, where the women control all the power.

El sexo fuerte

1946

La pícara Susana poster
5.7

Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.

La pícara Susana

1945

Mexican Moods poster
NR

This 1942 travelogue film, directed by Aldo Ermini and sponsored by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, showcases Mexican culture during World War II, focusing on various cultural activities and popular entertainers of the time. The film features notable figures like Puerto Rican actress and singer Mapy Cortés, Mexican comedian Cantinflas, and a re-enactment of Aztec traditions.

Mexican Moods

1942

Internado para señoritas poster
6.2

1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.

Internado para señoritas

1943

La Guerra de los Pasteles poster
5.8

Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s

La Guerra de los Pasteles

1944