Mapy Cortés

Acting

Mapy Cortés

Born 1910-03-01 · Santurce, Puerto Rico

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 Belle Époque. The 1945 Mapy Cortés vehicle La pícara Susana / Mischievous Susana[5] marked the directorial debut of her husband Fernando. After Fernando died, Mapy returned to Puerto Rico and led a relatively quiet life. In 1998 she died at her home of a heart attack. She was buried at the Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery in Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Acting credits

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NR

A Puerto Rican goes to New York to seek his fortune.

Mr. Dólar

1964

Los expatriados poster
6.5

The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.

Los expatriados

1963

Dormitorio para señoritas poster
5.6

Young lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.

Dormitorio para señoritas

1960

The Unknown Policeman poster
7.9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guard! Alert! poster
4.8

The young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money.

Guard! Alert!

1937

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

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

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

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

El globo de Cantolla poster
5.8

Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.

El globo de Cantolla

1944

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

Internado para señoritas poster
6.2

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

Internado para señoritas

1943

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

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

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

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico poster
6.0

Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico

1966

Cinco minutos de amor poster
6.3

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

Cinco minutos de amor

1941