Maria Antonieta Pons

Acting

Maria Antonieta Pons

Born — Died

1922-06-12 — 2004-08-20

Place of birth

La Habana, Cuba

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

From Wikipedia Maria Antonieta Pons (July 11, 1922 in Havana, Cuba – August 20, 2004 in Mexico City) was a Cuban-born Mexican film actress and dancer. She was the first actress in the Rumberas films in the 1940s and 1950s, in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 8 titles

Romance in Puerto Rico poster
6.7

Rosina is frustrated by her engagement to millionaire John Johnson III, a fussy, domineering, control freak. The night before her wedding, she goes out dancing with her maid María, María's husband Tomás, and their friend Gordillo. When Rosina learns Gordillo is a sailor on the yacht owned by Mexican film star José María Beltrán, she decides to stow away and sail to Mexico to be with her grandmother.

Romance in Puerto Rico

1962

No artwork available
5.6

Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight.

Vámonos para la feria

1961

No artwork available
6.0

In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.

Una estrella y dos estrellados

1960

Viva Jalisco que es mi tierra poster
5.8

Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...

Viva Jalisco que es mi tierra

1961

El centauro del norte poster
6.0

A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?

El centauro del norte

1962

No artwork available
6.0

Felipe the charro returns and discovers that Rosa is going to marry Martín, a stranger from out of town, and feels betrayed. It is a deception, but love, jealousy, and revenge dominate.

Voy de gallo

1963

Caña brava poster
6.2

A sailor decides to marry his girlfriend, but her boss is in love with her and orders a beating for her boyfriend. Once the sailor regains consciousness, he is accused of murder and must flee. Once he gets to the port, however, he is beaten again, losing his memory as a consequence.

Caña brava

1965

Las cuatro milpas poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las cuatro milpas

1960

1950s · 20 titles

Los legionarios poster
6.8

AWOL from French Foreign Legion and hiding in a Prince's harem, clowns get mixed up in palace intrigues

Los legionarios

1958

¡Qué bravas son las costeñas! poster
6.4

Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts in town.

¡Qué bravas son las costeñas!

1955

La reina del mambo poster
4.8

Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.

La reina del mambo

1951

No artwork available
6.4

Blowhard's mouth runs away with him and he's trapped into having to prove that he knows Maria Antonieta Pons, the big movie star and stuff.

Nunca me hagan eso

1957

Ferias de México poster
5.4

Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.

Ferias de México

1959

Necesito un marido poster
5.8

After being stood up at the altar, a young heiress hires a burglar to pose as her husband to help her save face.

Necesito un marido

1955

La odalisca No. 13 poster
6.7

The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her costar and manager tag along to rescue her.

La odalisca No. 13

1958

Carnaval Atlântida poster
7.1

Movie producer Cecílio B. de Milho is intent on filming an epic about Helen of Troy, while some of the crew would rather turn it into a musical comedy.

Carnaval Atlântida

1952

Teatro del crimen poster
6.2

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.

Teatro del crimen

1957

No artwork available
6.3

Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.

Acapulcan

1959

Las mil y una noches poster
6.8

Professional story-teller falls afoul of a sultan, but saves himself from execution using the tricks of his trade.

Las mil y una noches

1958

La culpa de los hombres poster
5.5

A factory worker gets pregnant by the son of her boss, who forces his son to marry a rich girl he doesn't love.

La culpa de los hombres

1955

No artwork available
5.8

Woman has plastic surgery and reevaluates her relationships with husband and lover while pretending to be a different person.

Sucedió en México

1958

La gaviota poster
6.0

Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes for vacations.

La gaviota

1955

Piña madura poster
5.8

A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.

Piña madura

1950

La engañadora poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La engañadora

1955

Nuestras vidas poster
6.0

Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.

Nuestras vidas

1950

Flor de canela poster
5.6

Nightclub entertainer discovers the truth about her birth mother while making the right choice in her love life, choosing the good guy over the slimy, exploitative hoodlum.

Flor de canela

1959

María Cristina poster
5.5

Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.

María Cristina

1951

La niña popoff poster
5.8

Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend.

La niña popoff

1952

1940s · 22 titles

La hija del penal poster
6.4

A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.

La hija del penal

1949

The Well-paid poster
5.6

Melodrama about marital infidelity.

The Well-paid

1948

La reina del trópico poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

La reina del trópico

1946

Viva Mi Desgracia poster
6.2

After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.

Viva Mi Desgracia

1944

Toros, amor y gloria poster
5.4

Farmhand moves to the city to be with his mother. He falls in love with the daughter of the rich family for whom she works as housekeeper, and decides to take advantage of his skill as a bullfighter to earn money and status enough to be able to court her.

Toros, amor y gloria

1944

Los misterios del hampa poster
6.3

A dangerous gangster, called Álvaro Rambal, is captured by the police. Hoping to be forgiven before his execution, he tells the story of his life to his wife, going from his tragic childhood to the rise and fall of his criminal empire.

Los misterios del hampa

1945

Balajú poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Balajú

1944

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra

1947

La insaciable poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

La insaciable

1947

La mujer del puerto poster
6.2

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

La mujer del puerto

1949

Ángel o demonio poster
6.0

Wealthy young gentleman falls in love with a cabaret girl of no breeding; he overcomes his prejudices and accepts her in spite of her past... will she live up to his expectations of her?

Ángel o demonio

1947

Pasiones tormentosas poster
6.5

In a small tropical town, two sisters fight over the love of a young man named José. Fabiola is a noble woman but Sandra will do anything to get him, including witchcraft.

Pasiones tormentosas

1946

Mi reino por un torero poster
6.0

Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...

Mi reino por un torero

1944

Flor de caña poster
6.8

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

Flor de caña

1948

Cruel destino poster
6.0

Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her.

Cruel destino

1944

Konga Roja poster
5.4

A new supervisor arrives at a banana plantation to find out the truth behind a series of strange events.

Konga Roja

1943

La sin ventura poster
6.3

Mexican movie

La sin ventura

1948

Rosalinda poster
5.8

Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.

Rosalinda

1945

Toda una vida poster
5.6

A beautiful young woman, adopted as a child by a man, falls in love with her stepfather and wants to conceive a child with him.

Toda una vida

1945

Siboney poster
5.5

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her to become a successful dancer. Over time, she discovers that she is the daughter of a prominent aristocrat.

Siboney

1940

No artwork available
6.6

Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the ladder of success, she starts feeling insecure about all the beautiful non-deformed women he's surrounded with.

Noches de ronda

1943

Embrujo antillano poster
6.3

Power struggles among the owners of a cigar factory;meanwhile, a society babe and a factory girl compete over the youngest of the executives.

Embrujo antillano

1946