Blanca de Castejón

Acting

Blanca de Castejón

Born — Died

1907-04-28 — 1969-12-26

Place of birth

Comerío, Puerto Rico

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

María Blanca Josefina Regalado Castejón y Otero (May 13, 1906 – December 26, 1969), better known as Blanca de Castejón, was a Puerto Rican actress who is best remembered for her work in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, especially her award-winning supporting role in Escuela de vagabundos (School for tramps, 1953).

Known for

Cuide a su marido poster
5.7

Alberto (Fernando Soler) is married with Rosario (Blanca de Castejón), who is a saint and doesn’t realize that her husband is a womanizer that has a lover, Elena (Leonora Amar), whom is an artist and works in the theater, but when Alberto tries to break up with her in order to have a relation with Alicia (Hilda Sour) everything starts to go south for him.

Cuide a su marido

1950

School for Tramps poster
8.0

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

School for Tramps

1955

El impostor poster
NR

American Spanish-language film.

El impostor

1931

Resurrection poster
6.3

Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her jury joins her on the trip to Siberia to expatiate his guilt.

Resurrection

1931

Todos son mis hijos!... poster
6.4

Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.

Todos son mis hijos!...

1951

Divorciadas poster
6.2

Divorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her late husband, leading a free and unconventional life; and Juanita, an employee at the courthouse where she meets Cristina, married but long abandoned by her husband.

Divorciadas

1943

Film credits

1950s · 13 titles

Cuide a su marido poster
5.7

Alberto (Fernando Soler) is married with Rosario (Blanca de Castejón), who is a saint and doesn’t realize that her husband is a womanizer that has a lover, Elena (Leonora Amar), whom is an artist and works in the theater, but when Alberto tries to break up with her in order to have a relation with Alicia (Hilda Sour) everything starts to go south for him.

Cuide a su marido

1950

School for Tramps poster
8.0

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

School for Tramps

1955

Todos son mis hijos!... poster
6.4

Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.

Todos son mis hijos!...

1951

Mamá nos quita los novios poster
5.7

Amanda, a widow, is a beautiful woman that finds comfort seducing every man in her path, including her daughters' boyfriends.

Mamá nos quita los novios

1952

Vagabundo y Millonario poster
5.9

Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.

Vagabundo y Millonario

1959

Mientras el cuerpo aguante poster
6.0

Housekeeper inherits her employer's fortune, tries to enter into society and make a good match for her God-daughter.

Mientras el cuerpo aguante

1958

Yo también soy de Jalisco poster
5.2

A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.

Yo también soy de Jalisco

1950

3 Lessons of Love poster
6.0

The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.

3 Lessons of Love

1959

Nosotras, las taquígrafas poster
6.0

Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.

Nosotras, las taquígrafas

1950

Los apuros de mi ahijada poster
5.8

Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...

Los apuros de mi ahijada

1951

Prefiero a tu papá poster
4.8

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.

Prefiero a tu papá

1952

School for Mothers-in-Law poster
6.2

Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.

School for Mothers-in-Law

1958

No artwork available
6.0

A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.

El gallo colorado

1957

1940s · 7 titles

1930s · 9 titles

El impostor poster
NR

American Spanish-language film.

El impostor

1931

Resurrection poster
6.3

Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her jury joins her on the trip to Siberia to expatiate his guilt.

Resurrection

1931

Slaves of Fashion poster
10.0

A woman owning a small dressmaker's shop decides to reopen it in Broadway in luxury at all expenses, trusting merely on the cards'premonitions. She wants her little children to pair with the richest boys. Her husband, who discouraged her, dies and the business soon takes flight.

Slaves of Fashion

1931

Crimen a las tres poster
NR

A famous singer in love with a woman takes the blame for a crime to save her. Luis Saslavsky's first film, considered lost.

Crimen a las tres

1935

El carnaval del diablo poster
7.0

Spanish-language version of The Devil on Horseback (1936).

El carnaval del diablo

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.

Mis dos amores

1938

There Were Thirteen poster
7.1

This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.

There Were Thirteen

1931

No artwork available
NR

Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.

Los hijos mandan

1939

Por buen camino poster
9.0

Two brothers fall in love with the same girl.

Por buen camino

1935

Behind the camera