
Acting
Rosita Quintana
Born — Died
1925-07-16 — 2021-08-23
Place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Rosita Quintana (July 16, 1925 - August 23, 2021), born Trinidad Rosa Quintana Muñoz de Kogan, was an Argentina-born Mexican film actress and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Quintana is remembered for her participation in numerous Mexican films between 1948-1960. She starred in movies like Calabacitas Tiernas (1949), along Tin Tan and Amalia Aguilar; Susana (1951) (directed by Luis Buñuel); El Mil Amores(1954), with Pedro Infante and many others. In 2005, she returned to films with Club Eutanasia. As a singer, she is remembered in notable tangos and boleros, such as Bendita Mentira.
Known for
9.5The spoiled and insensitive Estrella de Rossi comes across a humble girl, Virginia, who is her spitting image; almost immediately she comes up with a game and, as a bit of mischief, she pays the girl to impersonate her. When she pulls this off successfully and no one notices the change, Estrella goes further and decides to take a year off to go out and live her life. She forces her double to accept this pact and the young village girl is left to assume the role of a rich and married woman, with a husband who is not really hers but who she ends up falling in love with. She will also face an alcoholic mother-in-law, stepchildren in need of attention and love, a company teetering on bankruptcy and above all, the eminent danger of being discovered.
Intrusive
1986
7.6La Dueña (Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Florinda Meza in 1995 for Televisa. It was transmitted by El Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States in 1995 and 1998, and on Galavisión in 2000.
La Dueña
1995
6.0El secreto de Alejandra is a Mexican telenovela created and produced by Jorge Lozano Soriano for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from December 1, 1997, to January 2, 1998. Created by Jorge Lozano Soriano, with adaptation by Lila Yolanda Andrade and Carlos Lozano Dana, the telenovela stars María Sorté and Leonardo Daniel. Due to its controversial theme of organ trafficking, the series was shortened to 25 episodes. The story follows María Soler, an actress trapped in an abusive marriage, and Alejandra Monasterio, a wealthy woman dying of terminal cancer. After discovering they are identical despite being unrelated, Alejandra convinces María to assume her identity so she can care for her young son. As María begins her new life, she becomes entangled in a dangerous conspiracy involving organ trafficking, deception, and family secrets while fighting to protect Alejandra's child and uncover the truth.
El Secreto de Alejandra
1997
6.8The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
Susana
1951
5.8Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
Yo quiero ser tonta
1950
6.3Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
1948
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
1980s · 4 titles
3.8Towards the end of the 1950s, a young homosexual faced life, society, a dominant mother, and a conservative home.
El hombre de la mandolina
1985
6.0In the XIX century, Griselda is an actress who knows a pianist named Orlando. He takes her to live at the mansion of Eloisa, his mother. Griselda soon discovers that the entire family is completely insane.
Till Death Do Us Part
1989
7.7Two teenagers fall in love with each other for the first time.
Coqueta
1983
5.7The struggle between two rival families brings many complications into the life of a people. The priest, with the agreement of the women, get a strike of crossed legs until peace is a fact.
Viva el chubasco
1983
1970s · 1 titles
1960s · 11 titles
5.8Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
Yo no me caso compadre
1960
8.0Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Our Daily Hunger
1960
5.2Three tomboyish farm-girls meet mens and start developing their girly sides.
Tres balas perdidas
1961
8.0Three episodes about the influence of Satan: a black boxer commits killings under the influence of his manager.A pair of lovers is haunted by the memory of a murdered wife.A wedding in the mountains is disrupted when the bride sees an apparation of the Devil who shares his expertise in astrology and the female heart.
The Devil in the Blood
1964
7.0The head of a plumbing and electrical workshop is a victim of bureaucracy in public offices and is unable to pay his debts, so his workshop is closed. With a lot of luck he manages to get a repair job in the house of a minister, then he enters to work in a ministry, also becoming a bureaucrat. Taking advantage of his friendship with the minister, he is promoted to become chief archivist, but he realizes the routine that is filling the job and resigns.
El burócrata González
1964
5.6The film tells the story of two twins separated in childhood who reunite when they are older. One of them has grown between outlaws and has become one of them, a murderous bandit who frightens the region. The other has grown, without knowing it, in exactly the ranch of the man who murdered his father and has become the loving foreman of the farmer's daughter, now deceased.
Calibre 44
1960
10.0A woman tries to prove his son's innocence, a taxi driver who is accused of murder.
El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
1964
Mexican western 1961
Escuela de valientes
1961
5.7Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.
Amorcito corazón
1961
6.0Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.
Paloma brava
1961
6.0Three female singers in the 1920s pursue their careers.
¿Dónde estás, corazón?
1961
1950s · 26 titles
6.8The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
Susana
1951
5.8Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
Yo quiero ser tonta
1950
6.0Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.
..Y mañana serán mujeres
1955
6.7This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Love Your Neighbor
1958
6.3Lorenzo Inclán, a famous Mexican songwriter, is torn between helping a girl become a famous singer or having a romantic relationship with her.
Cuando Mexico canta
1958
6.8No synopsis available yet.
The Doubt
1954
6.0Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
1959
NRDocumentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum.
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959
6.8While seeking to protect themselves from the aggressions of "Pantaleon" and other men, a landowner marries a Mexican American newcomer. But to his surprise, the man seems to be as brave as her and try to humiliate him constantly until he decides to give out your real identity.
Me gustan valentones!
1959
Rom-com set during Mexican Revolution.
Carabina 30-30
1958
6.7Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
El valor de vivir
1954
5.7Two small-town hell-raisers get so out of hand the authorities have to step in to rein them in.
Dos gallos de pelea
1950
6.6After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
The Absentee
1952
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Melodías de amor
1955
7.6Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
El mil amores
1954
6.0Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act.
Serenata en México
1956
6.2Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.
A los cuatro vientos
1955
6.6Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.
¡Que seas feliz!
1956
6.1Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Mujeres que trabajan
1953
4.9No synopsis available yet.
My Dear Captain
1950
5.8Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
Pretty sky!
1957
6.2Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and meets a new girl.
Tú, solo tú
1950
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
El zarco
1959
6.6Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications.
Menores de edad
1951
7.0Michele and Valentina are about to get married despite the financial problems that threaten to make the first years of their marriage very difficult. Valentina wishes she could skip the first five years of marriage and find herself at a point in her life where all the difficulties have been resolved. A mysterious man who has overheard everything grants her wish, and the couple reunites in Spain, where he is a successful singer but the couple feels uneasy.
Buongiorno primo amore!
1957
7.2No synopsis available yet.
Sor Alegría
1952
1940s · 14 titles
6.3Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
1948
6.2Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Novia a la medida
1949
6.3A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
1949
6.3A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan (Germán Valdés). Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer. Another common English translation of the title of this film is Tender Pumpkins or Tender Little Pumpkins (although a direct translation is Baby Zucchini).
Oh What Beautiful Legs!
1949
6.7Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the funniest adventures you can imagine.
Soy Charro de Levita
1949
5.4Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
La santa del barrio
1948
5.4Showbiz family is stressed when wife gets sick and husband starts paying attention to costar.
Una canción a la vírgen
1949
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Mi madre adorada
1948
6.0Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.
El ángel caído
1949
5.4Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
El charro y la dama
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
6.0A doctor becomes entangled in the world of opium, leading to a series of tragic events that affect his personal and professional life.
Opium
1949
Political satire about fixed elections in a small town.
¡Ay, Palillo, no te rajes!
1948
6.7Struggling musician takes sympathy on a homeless woman and they build a life together.
La última noche
1948
Series credits
9.5The spoiled and insensitive Estrella de Rossi comes across a humble girl, Virginia, who is her spitting image; almost immediately she comes up with a game and, as a bit of mischief, she pays the girl to impersonate her. When she pulls this off successfully and no one notices the change, Estrella goes further and decides to take a year off to go out and live her life. She forces her double to accept this pact and the young village girl is left to assume the role of a rich and married woman, with a husband who is not really hers but who she ends up falling in love with. She will also face an alcoholic mother-in-law, stepchildren in need of attention and love, a company teetering on bankruptcy and above all, the eminent danger of being discovered.
Intrusive
1986
7.6La Dueña (Mexico) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Florinda Meza in 1995 for Televisa. It was transmitted by El Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States in 1995 and 1998, and on Galavisión in 2000.
La Dueña
1995
6.0El secreto de Alejandra is a Mexican telenovela created and produced by Jorge Lozano Soriano for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from December 1, 1997, to January 2, 1998. Created by Jorge Lozano Soriano, with adaptation by Lila Yolanda Andrade and Carlos Lozano Dana, the telenovela stars María Sorté and Leonardo Daniel. Due to its controversial theme of organ trafficking, the series was shortened to 25 episodes. The story follows María Soler, an actress trapped in an abusive marriage, and Alejandra Monasterio, a wealthy woman dying of terminal cancer. After discovering they are identical despite being unrelated, Alejandra convinces María to assume her identity so she can care for her young son. As María begins her new life, she becomes entangled in a dangerous conspiracy involving organ trafficking, deception, and family secrets while fighting to protect Alejandra's child and uncover the truth.
El Secreto de Alejandra
1997


