María Elena Marqués

Acting

María Elena Marqués

Born — Died

1926-12-14 — 2008-11-11

Place of birth

Mexico City, México

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Across the Wide Missouri poster
6.1

In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.

Across the Wide Missouri

1951

Romeo y Julieta poster
6.8

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.

Romeo y Julieta

1943

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap poster
6.6

Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

1953

The Angels of Puebla poster
6.3

An angel who is three good deeds short of earning his wings chooses the city of Puebla to carry out her mission.

The Angels of Puebla

1968

Me he de comer esa tuna poster
6.2

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.

Me he de comer esa tuna

1945

Tom Thumb poster
7.3

A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.

Tom Thumb

1958

Film credits

1960s · 5 titles

1950s · 23 titles

Across the Wide Missouri poster
6.1

In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.

Across the Wide Missouri

1951

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap poster
6.6

Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

1953

Tom Thumb poster
7.3

A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.

Tom Thumb

1958

Historia de un abrigo de mink poster
4.6

Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.

Historia de un abrigo de mink

1955

Yo quiero ser mala poster
6.4

In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.

Yo quiero ser mala

1950

El joven Juárez poster
6.5

The humble origins of the famous Oaxacan political liberator who became president of Mexico

El joven Juárez

1954

This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter poster
7.2

The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.

This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter

1957

Vuelva el sábado poster
5.8

Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.

Vuelva el sábado

1951

Lullaby poster
6.6

A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent.

Lullaby

1953

When the Fog Lifts poster
6.8

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.

When the Fog Lifts

1952

Gema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gema

1950

¿Mujer... o fiera? poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

¿Mujer... o fiera?

1954

Storm in the souls poster
5.1

Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.

Storm in the souls

1954

Reportaje poster
7.3

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Reportaje

1953

Lo que no se puede perdonar!.. poster
5.8

Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.

Lo que no se puede perdonar!..

1953

La negra Angustias poster
5.0

When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.

La negra Angustias

1950

Maternidad imposible poster
6.7

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...

Maternidad imposible

1955

El marido de mi novia poster
6.0

Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love with her.

El marido de mi novia

1951

No artwork available
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Las manzanas de Dorotea

1957

Tal para cual poster
5.7

Mistaken identity farce; two guys each pretend to be somebody else to cover for each other in delicate situations.

Tal para cual

1953

No artwork available
6.2

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

A Media Luz Los Tres

1958

La malcasada poster
5.7

A woman leaves her life as a cabaret performer behind thanks to a man who, after finding her unconscious, takes her to his home.

La malcasada

1950

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Melodías inolvidables

1959

1940s · 17 titles

Romeo y Julieta poster
6.8

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.

Romeo y Julieta

1943

Me he de comer esa tuna poster
6.2

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.

Me he de comer esa tuna

1945

El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) poster
6.2

After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.

El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)

1943

Dos corazones y un tango poster
6.7

An Argentine arrives in Mexico and finds his vocation in music, succeeding as a tango singer. At the same time, he tries to conquer a capricious Mexican, who at first seems distant, slapping him, but she ends up kissing him.

Dos corazones y un tango

1942

Me ha besado un hombre poster
6.3

Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...

Me ha besado un hombre

1944

El casado casa quiere poster
6.0

Interfering relatives complicate a couple's attempt to build their dream house.

El casado casa quiere

1948

La razón de la culpa poster
6.2

Roberto on a journey to Mexico knows to Maria de La Paz, a woman older than he, who falls in love, she also has feelings for him, but doesn't give him hopes cause she is married. Fate reunites them without imagine it, they will have to face a moral dilemma.

La razón de la culpa

1943

The Pearl poster
7.2

Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.

The Pearl

1947

Doña Bárbara poster
7.1

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Doña Bárbara

1943

La novia del mar poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

La novia del mar

1948

Las colegialas poster
6.7

Girl 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

Así se quiere en Jalisco poster
7.5

Because of a debt, Lupe is forced to work as a housekeeper for Luis, a ranch owner who is madly in love with her. However, Luis’s feelings are not reciprocated because Lupe is in love with Juan Ramón.

Así se quiere en Jalisco

1942

Capullito de alhelí poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Capullito de alhelí

1945

Las cinco advertencias de Satanás poster
4.2

Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.

Las cinco advertencias de Satanás

1945

Cinco fueron escogidos poster
5.3

Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different cast (at least in major roles). Sadly, this film, usually referred to as "Five Were Chosen" but sometimes called "Hostages" (not to be confused with the somewhat similar 1943 Hollywood movie with that title), appears to be lost. García Riera indicates the English-language version was screened in Mexico, at least for the press, but does not seem to have been released commercially in the Mexico or the USA. Since Herbert Kline was well-known for his leftist views, it's not surprising to note that many of the imported Hollywood actors were also left-leaning (and in fact more than one was blacklisted during the Red Scare era).

Cinco fueron escogidos

1943

La trepadora poster
6.0

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.

La trepadora

1944

Carita de cielo poster
5.6

A young woman is brought before a prosecutor after stealing food. She is defended by Julio, a university professor who decides to exhibit her as an example in his class on the theory of theft. Then he hires her as a housemaid. Her face and charms won’t only save her family from serious quandaries; they will also inspire the professor’s love.

Carita de cielo

1947