
Acting
Marga López
Born — Died
1924-06-21 — 2005-07-03
Place of birth
Tucumán, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
72 titles
Marga López (21 June 1924 – 4 July 2005), born Catalina Margarita López Ramos, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Born in Argentina, she later acquired Mexican nationality.
Known for
7.8Dulce María is like her name, a sweet 5-year-old girl, full of joy and good feelings. With the death of his mother, his father, Luciano Larios, sinks into depression and pain, and decides to distance himself from everything and everyone. He admits Dulce María to the "Queen of America" nuns' school and goes abroad, leaving her in the care of her brother Gabriel, who is a priest. The only visit the girl receives is from her beloved Aunt Estefanía, whom she affectionately calls "Aunt Wigs" because instead of showing her hair, she wears colored wigs that match her clothes.
Little Angel Face
2000
5.7Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan. This telenovela contains 78 episodes.
Alondra
1995
8.3La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.
The Marked Hour
1988
7.5Violeta lives with her uncle because her mother died soon after she was born and she never knew her father, she stays with her grandmother from time to time as well. Violeta has a boyfriend named Ángel who gives her a pet dog. While at her grandmother's house, Violeta discovers a time machine that her grandfather built, so she and her friends travel to different time periods. They visit several important events in Mexican history, learning these stories firsthand.
Adventures in Time
2001
7.1Juan de la Cruz, a young seminarian, visits the home of his mother, Ana Joaquina—a religious zealot who has always imposed her will on her son and instilled in him a calling to serve God. Working in Ana Joaquina’s household is Luciana, an innocent, dreamy young woman who falls in love with Juan de la Cruz. One night, swept up in the passion of youth, they give in to their feelings with tenderness and innocence. Upon discovering this, Ana Joaquina throws Luciana out; by then, Luciana is already pregnant with Juan de la Cruz’s child. When the time comes to give birth, she leaves her daughter at a stranger's doorstep, hoping the child will be raised there, but the baby is instead taken to an orphanage. To survive, Luciana becomes involved with a series of unsavory men—including Pedro Trujillo, a brutal man who beats and abuses her.
El Privilegio de Amar
1998
8.3Bajo la misma piel is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Moreno Laguillo for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from September 15, 2003, to January 16, 2004. Created by Martha Carrillo and Cristina García, the story follows four women from the same family as they face love, betrayal, family conflicts, and personal struggles. Sara, Regina, Miranda and Esther must overcome challenges such as an unhappy marriage, a complicated love triangle, illness, and forbidden relationships while searching for true love and happiness.
Bajo la misma piel
2003
Film credits
1970s · 4 titles
8.0Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
El profe
1971
6.0Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
México de mis amores
1979
5.8She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...
La agonía de ser madre
1970
5.7Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
Rosario
1971
1960s · 19 titles
7.9A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968
5.7Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Los Perversos
1967
8.1Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket
1963
7.8Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
The Book of Stone
1969
5.8Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early days of their marriage are a constant disappointment, especially when it finds that her husband has no resemblance to the author of the letters. He lives embittered by an old story and is hated by all.
El hombre de la isla
1960
6.5Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
Crown of Tears
1968
5.7All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
Atrás de las nubes
1962
6.0Buddy movie about aviators.
Diablos en el cielo
1965
6.7The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
¿Qué haremos con papá?
1966
6.0"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
Mi madre es Culpable
1960
5.8After her child dies in an accident, a woman's marriage collapses and she goes into a convent.
El amor no es pecado (El cielo de los pobres)
1965
5.6Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.
La sombra de los hijos
1964
6.0In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
Cuando acaba la noche
1964
6.7Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.
El día de las madres
1969
6.5Comedy by Tulio Demicheli about Christmas in June.
Navidades en junio
1960
6.9A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
Time to Die
1966
6.9A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
La edad de la inocencia
1962
7.5After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead.
¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
1960
6.9A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Perverse Doll
1969
1950s · 26 titles
7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959
7.0A 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
6.5Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...
Arrabalera
1950
7.0Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
Happy Year, My Love
1957
5.4Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Arrabalera
1951
6.8This 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
5.1A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair.
My Wife and the Other
1952
6.4Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
La ciudad de los niños
1957
8.3An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.
A Place Close to Heaven
1952
5.6Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result.
El diario de mi madre
1957
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Love Pays for Love
1950
6.0During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
1950
Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.
Cuentan de una mujer
1959
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Tu hijo debe nacer
1958
6.3Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
De carne somos
1955
6.0Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
Black Is My Color
1951
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Orquídeas para mi esposa
1954
4.8An 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
Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
Beneath the Sky of Mexico
1958
5.4Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.
Una Movida Chueca
1956
6.3Family 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
5.2"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia.
Una mujer sin destino
1950
7.7Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Far from Heaven
1952
4.6Unhappy young married couple argue and almost break up their marriage.
Arm in Arm Down the Street
1956
6.8Melodrama about a girl brought up by a stepmother.
La mujer sin lagrimas
1951
6.4When Demetrio arrives at the mine to meet his brother Ricardo, he finds out that Ricardo has committed suicide for the love of a woman. He promises to avenge the death of his brother..
La mentira
1952
1940s · 10 titles
6.7Girl goes to boarding school while her widowed father pursues a romance. His thing turns out badly, but she meets her future husband.
Las colegialas
1946
8.2Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcías
1947
6.6Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Vuelven los García
1947
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Mamá Inés
1946
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Mi esposa busca novio
1948
6.2Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich family.
Con la música por dentro
1947
6.5A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.
Midnight
1949
6.6Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Salon Mexico
1949
5.3Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
Un milagro de amor
1949
6.4After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
Dueña y señora
1948
Series credits
7.8Dulce María is like her name, a sweet 5-year-old girl, full of joy and good feelings. With the death of his mother, his father, Luciano Larios, sinks into depression and pain, and decides to distance himself from everything and everyone. He admits Dulce María to the "Queen of America" nuns' school and goes abroad, leaving her in the care of her brother Gabriel, who is a priest. The only visit the girl receives is from her beloved Aunt Estefanía, whom she affectionately calls "Aunt Wigs" because instead of showing her hair, she wears colored wigs that match her clothes.
Little Angel Face
2000
5.7Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan. This telenovela contains 78 episodes.
Alondra
1995
8.3La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.
The Marked Hour
1988
7.5Violeta lives with her uncle because her mother died soon after she was born and she never knew her father, she stays with her grandmother from time to time as well. Violeta has a boyfriend named Ángel who gives her a pet dog. While at her grandmother's house, Violeta discovers a time machine that her grandfather built, so she and her friends travel to different time periods. They visit several important events in Mexican history, learning these stories firsthand.
Adventures in Time
2001
7.1Juan de la Cruz, a young seminarian, visits the home of his mother, Ana Joaquina—a religious zealot who has always imposed her will on her son and instilled in him a calling to serve God. Working in Ana Joaquina’s household is Luciana, an innocent, dreamy young woman who falls in love with Juan de la Cruz. One night, swept up in the passion of youth, they give in to their feelings with tenderness and innocence. Upon discovering this, Ana Joaquina throws Luciana out; by then, Luciana is already pregnant with Juan de la Cruz’s child. When the time comes to give birth, she leaves her daughter at a stranger's doorstep, hoping the child will be raised there, but the baby is instead taken to an orphanage. To survive, Luciana becomes involved with a series of unsavory men—including Pedro Trujillo, a brutal man who beats and abuses her.
El Privilegio de Amar
1998
8.3Bajo la misma piel is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Moreno Laguillo for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from September 15, 2003, to January 16, 2004. Created by Martha Carrillo and Cristina García, the story follows four women from the same family as they face love, betrayal, family conflicts, and personal struggles. Sara, Regina, Miranda and Esther must overcome challenges such as an unhappy marriage, a complicated love triangle, illness, and forbidden relationships while searching for true love and happiness.
Bajo la misma piel
2003
7.1Yulissa Torres-Quintero is a beautiful young woman from an upper social class who has been orphaned at a very young age; For this reason, she and her brother Alberto were raised by their cruel grandmother, Doña Paula Garza vda. de Torres-Quintero, who pretends to be sick to manipulate her grandchildren. After several years, Paula is ruined and penniless, so she decides to mortgage all her assets to the landowner Ignacio Aguirre, owner of the Arroyo Negro hacienda, as a last resort to survive and avoid poverty.
Te Sigo Amando
1996
7.3In the village of San Andres, the rivalry between two families the Valdes and the Ramirez is centered on "El Manantial", a beautiful fountain of water that happens to bathe the small property of the Valdes and not the neighboring ranch, the rich and prosperous hacienda "Piedras Grandes", where the best cattle are raised and is property of the Ramirez. But the spring is not the real reason for the hatred between the families. Justo Ramirez, married to Margarita Insunza, had a relationship with Francisca Rivero, wife of his enemy and neighbor Rigoberto Valdes. This relationship, founded in the betrayal, will cause the utmost bitterness and the destruction between the two families. The Valdes have a beautiful daughter named Alfonsina, who was born in the same year as Alejandro, the son and heir of the Ramirez. Although they have grown separately with their souls full of prejudices against their respective families, the two cannot avoid feeling attracted to each other. Margarita will not permit this and so she tells her husband to make sure her son will never be together with Alfonsina so he could marry Barbara, her cousin's daughter. Justo rapes Alfonsina and she leaves along with her mom and her aunt. Five years later... Alfonsina is graduating from school and has a good life until her mother commits suicide because she found out she was deathly ill and could no longer live with the guilt of her lifestyle. Before dying, her mother confesses to Alfonsina that Justo Ramirez destroyed her life and after that Alfonsina vows revenge on the man who destroyed her family. She returns to San Andres and there she once again sees Alejandro who is now engaged to Barbara. Their love is still present in their hearts. They will have to fight for their love and see if they can be happy by the shores of El Manantial... El Manantial is a Mexican telenovela that first aired in 2001, starring Adela Noriega and Mauricio Islas. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2002.
El Manantial
2001
8.5The lives of María Guadalupe, María Fernanda, and María Paula change tragically following an accident in which they lose their parents. María Guadalupe grows up unaware of her sisters' existence, but fate will bring them together.
Ties of Love
1995
5.7No synopsis available yet.
La pobre señorita Limantour
1987
9.2A lonely and serious man finds in the death of his uncle, the love of his life and also the hate that may spread in his world.
Entre el amor y el odio
2002
8.5La casa en la playa is a Mexican telenovela produced by Yuri Breña and Pinkye Morris for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from April 10 to July 7, 2000. The story follows the wealthy Villarreal family after the death of its patriarch, whose final wishes ignite conflicts over inheritance, power, and loyalty. As hidden secrets and old rivalries emerge, the family becomes entangled in a web of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge.
La casa en la playa
2000

