
Acting
Norma Giménez
Born 1930-06-11 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Acting credits
Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.
El calavera
1958
10.0The mother superior of a convent raises an abandoned girl and after twenty years the repentant biological mother returns.
Madre Alegría
1950
8.5A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
Vacaciones
1947
7.0A young woman takes care of her father and silblings after the death of her mother, giving up love in the process.
Estrellita
1947
10.0A music teacher and a police officer look after a children's club.
Sacachispas
1950
8.0Sentimental aspects of a group of cadets from the Military Aviation School.
La última escuadrilla
1951
9.0Aging father watches his adult children grow into independence and leave the roost.
Por ellos... todo
1948
9.0A young woman who works as a music store saleswoman falls in love with a popular singer.
El ídolo del tango
1949
7.0Three porteños to the conquest of Paris and the nostalgia to return.
Buenos Aires, mi tierra querida
1951
7.5A young millionaire meets a mechanic who has invented a carburetor as a result of a breakdown in her car.
Valentina
1950
10.0With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.
El festín de Satanás
1958
7.2A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Never Open That Door
1952
10.0A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.
From Man to Man
1949
9.0After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
El tambor de Tacuarí
1948
9.5During the English invasions, a merchant forces his daughter to marry a soldier.
La muerte en las calles
1952
NRSeveral individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
Tierra del Fuego
1948
7.6Juan Carlos Thorry is a police inspector who must solve the mystery of the death of the warden of a boarding school for young women, for which he goes undercover as a music teacher. The main suspect is the mischievous schoolgirl María Duval. A series of entanglements leads the protagonists to becoming romantically involved and to finding the culprit.
La serpiente de cascabel
1948
7.0A parapolice force within Peronism is dedicated to reducing and extorting all kinds of opponents, among whom a few rise up to denounce what is happening. Although the film has propaganda purposes that deliberately ignore part of reality, it is based on documented cases, such as those of the student Ernesto Mario Bravo or the trade union leader Cipriano Reyes.
Los torturados
1956
6.6Young newlywed girl about to embark on her honeymoon persuades older family friend to assist her in an extensive search for her missing husband. A road-trip full of comical misadventures ensues.
Devil in the Flesh
1947
7.0A woman tries to run away when she finds out that her nephews plan to kill her.
The Mysterious Uncle Silas
1947
8.0A student and his love for a young woman, misunderstood by her father.
Primavera de la vida
1958
7.0In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.
Mosquita muerta
1946
10.0An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.
Piantadino
1950