Maruja Grifell

Acting

Maruja Grifell

Born 1907-02-06 · Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Acting credits

Fly Away, Young Man! poster
8.0

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

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

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

Aquella Rosita Alvírez poster
6.3

Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.

Aquella Rosita Alvírez

1965

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

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

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

Se solicitan modelos poster
3.8

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

The Other poster
6.9

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

The Other

1946

The Innocent poster
7.0

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

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

Ladies Club poster
6.2

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

Ladies Club

1956

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 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

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

¿Mujer... o fiera? poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

¿Mujer... o fiera?

1954

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

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

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

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

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

..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

La vida de Pedro Infante poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

La vida de Pedro Infante

1966