
Acting
Libertad Lamarque
Born 1908-11-24 · Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina
Libertad Lamarque (November 24, 1908 – December 12, 2000) was an Argentine actress and singer, one of the icons of the Golden Age of Argentine and Mexican cinema. She achieved fame throughout Latin America, and became known as “La Novia de América” (“The Sweetheart of the Americas”). By the time she died in 2000, she had appeared in 65 films (21 filmed in Argentina, 45 in Mexico and one in Spain) and six soap operas, had recorded over 800 songs and had made innumerable theatrical appearances.
Acting credits
5.5Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952
5.9While studying at a Catholic boarding school, the young Luisa meets a boy, Julio, who talks to her from the street and through the gate. However, the girl's arrogant older brother removes her from the establishment and takes her to live in her family house. The beginning of love between Luisa and Julio is made even more difficult by what seems to be the beginning of a disease in her.
Help Me to Live
1936
8.0Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance.
El alma del bandoneón
1935
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Adiós, Argentina
1930
7.6A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.
Eclipse de sol
1943
6.4A singer is kidnapped by a rancher and her boyfriend comes to rescue her.
Bewitching Kisses
1937
6.0Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
The Prodigal Son
1968
5.6Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist.
Bello recuerdo
1961
6.5For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
La infame
1954
5.3Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.
Puerta cerrada
1939
6.4Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
Cuatro copas
1958
6.7A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
Honeysuckle
1938
6.5Teen-pop singer launches his career. Family conflicts and girlfriend troubles.
Canta mi corazón
1965
6.0A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
Nunca es tarde para amar
1953
6.0A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace. Later, she goes blind.
Caminito de Gloria
1939
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
6.0A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
La mujer X
1955
6.0Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.
Arrullo de Dios
1967
6.0Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.
La marquesa del barrio
1951
6.6Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Yo pecador
1959
6.5Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother.
La sonrisa de mamá
1972
5.4A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
Amor en la sombra
1960
5.2After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Gran Casino
1947
6.0Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
Sabrás que te quiero
1958