Maruja Grifell

Acting

Maruja Grifell

Born — Died

1907-02-06 — 1968-03-26

Place of birth

Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Fly Away, Young Man! poster
8.1

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

Fly Away, Young Man!

1947

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.

Dos tipos de cuidado

1953

The Other poster
6.9

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

The Other

1946

Another Dawn poster
6.7

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Another Dawn

1943

Watch Out for Love poster
7.1

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.

Watch Out for Love

1954

The Innocent poster
7.1

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.

The Innocent

1956

Film credits

1950s · 35 titles

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.

Dos tipos de cuidado

1953

Watch Out for Love poster
7.1

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.

Watch Out for Love

1954

The Innocent poster
7.1

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.

The Innocent

1956

Camelia poster
6.2

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Camelia

1954

Si usted no puede, yo sí poster
6.0

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.

Si usted no puede, yo sí

1951

Se solicitan modelos poster
4.1

In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.

Se solicitan modelos

1954

In the Flesh poster
5.7

A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.

In the Flesh

1951

Me traes de un ala poster
6.4

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

Me traes de un ala

1953

Ladies Club poster
6.2

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.

Ladies Club

1956

Tale of a Heart poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tale of a Heart

1951

The Sea and You poster
6.4

A man long thought dead returns to his fishing village home to find the love he left married to the village’s top power broker, a man who control’s the fish production with an iron fist.

The Sea and You

1952

The Straying Rooster poster
6.5

A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.

The Straying Rooster

1952

El mensaje de la muerte poster
6.5

The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.

El mensaje de la muerte

1953

From Can-Can to Mambo poster
6.2

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.

From Can-Can to Mambo

1951

Stolen Tears poster
6.0

Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.

Stolen Tears

1954

Manos de seda poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Manos de seda

1951

Esposa o amante poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Esposa o amante

1950

La vida en broma poster
6.0

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.

La vida en broma

1950

La visita que no tocó el timbre poster
6.8

Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.

La visita que no tocó el timbre

1954

..Y mañana serán mujeres poster
6.0

Grad 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

Inmaculada poster
6.3

A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.

Inmaculada

1950

Mujeres que trabajan poster
6.1

Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.

Mujeres que trabajan

1953

Reportaje poster
7.3

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

Reportaje

1953

¿Mujer... o fiera? poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

¿Mujer... o fiera?

1954

Aventurera poster
7.6

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.

Aventurera

1950

The Stone Crucifix poster
6.2

A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.

The Stone Crucifix

1956

I Need Money poster
7.8

Manuel is a mechanic in love with the beautiful Maria Teresa. When the rich Jose Antonio courts his beloved Maria, Manuel realizes that he needs money and gets into trouble to get it.

I Need Money

1951

Por qué ya no me quieres poster
6.7

Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who helps her succeed.

Por qué ya no me quieres

1954

El grito de la carne poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

El grito de la carne

1951

No te ofendas, Beatriz poster
6.0

Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them.

No te ofendas, Beatriz

1953

No artwork available
6.0

Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.

Rogaciano el huapanguero

1957

Good Love poster
6.0

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

Good Love

1957

Las infieles poster
7.0

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.

Las infieles

1953

Una mujer decente poster
6.0

Rosa, a working-class young woman, falls in love with the physician Armando de la Vega. After they spend a night together, she discovers that she is pregnant. Armando, however, marries another woman, and the couple leaves for Paris, where he remains for several years. Upon his return, disillusioned with his marriage, he meets the famous cabaret star Alma Rosa, not realizing that she is Rosa, now performing under a stage name.

Una mujer decente

1950

Perdida poster
7.7

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

Perdida

1950

1940s · 22 titles

Fly Away, Young Man! poster
8.1

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

Fly Away, Young Man!

1947

The Other poster
6.9

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

The Other

1946

Another Dawn poster
6.7

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Another Dawn

1943

The Great Madcap poster
7.3

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.

The Great Madcap

1949

A Family Like Many Others poster
6.8

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

A Family Like Many Others

1949

La casa de la Troya poster
6.8

Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".

La casa de la Troya

1948

Adultery poster
4.9

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.

Adultery

1945

La monja alférez poster
6.0

A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.

La monja alférez

1944

Músico, poeta y loco poster
7.6

An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.

Músico, poeta y loco

1948

Confidencias de un ruletero poster
6.4

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Confidencias de un ruletero

1949

Salon Mexico poster
6.6

Mercedes 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

Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho poster
5.7

Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.

Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho

1943

Laura's Sin poster
6.4

José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.

Laura's Sin

1949

Novia a la medida poster
6.2

Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.

Novia a la medida

1949

Cantaclaro poster
6.5

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.

Cantaclaro

1946

Felipe de Jesús poster
6.7

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Felipe de Jesús

1949

The Abandoned poster
5.5

A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.

The Abandoned

1945

Bugambilia poster
5.8

In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.

Bugambilia

1945

An Adventure in the Night poster
6.3

After a party, two friends pick up two beautiful girls with whom they spend a wonderful night. The next day, the two friends return to look for them and a neighbor surprises them when she tells them that the girls died some time before. Intrigued by the events of the previous night, one of them decides to investigate the mystery of the two dead girls.

An Adventure in the Night

1948

Everybody's Woman poster
6.2

A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.

Everybody's Woman

1946

Flor de caña poster
6.8

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

Flor de caña

1948

Quite a Gentleman poster
6.7

An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.

Quite a Gentleman

1947