Delia Magaña

Acting

Delia Magaña

Born — Died

1903-02-02 — 1996-03-31

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Delia Magaña was a Mexican film and television actress, singer, and dancer. Although she started as a silent film actress, Magaña became best known for her comic supporting roles in her later years. For her 60 years in the film industry, as well as for contributing to the American cinema, Magaña's name and hand print are preserved in the sidewalk outside Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.

Known for

Satanic Pandemonium poster
6.4

Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!

Satanic Pandemonium

1975

El Siete Machos poster
8.3

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

El Siete Machos

1951

We the Poor poster
8.2

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.

We the Poor

1948

La feria de San Marcos poster
7.8

Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.

La feria de San Marcos

1958

Pensión de artistas poster
7.2

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.

Pensión de artistas

1956

Picardía mexicana poster
7.5

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.

Picardía mexicana

1978

Film credits

1980s · 7 titles

1970s · 8 titles

Satanic Pandemonium poster
6.4

Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!

Satanic Pandemonium

1975

Picardía mexicana poster
7.5

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.

Picardía mexicana

1978

El Quelite poster
5.2

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

El Quelite

1970

Tu camino y el mio poster
4.6

She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).

Tu camino y el mio

1973

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez poster
5.8

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

1970

Guerra de sexos poster
4.7

A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife.

Guerra de sexos

1978

Las cenizas del diputado poster
5.8

A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own.

Las cenizas del diputado

1977

The Nights of Paloma poster
4.1

While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.

The Nights of Paloma

1978

1960s · 10 titles

1950s · 18 titles

El Siete Machos poster
8.3

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

El Siete Machos

1951

La feria de San Marcos poster
7.8

Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.

La feria de San Marcos

1958

Pensión de artistas poster
7.2

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.

Pensión de artistas

1956

El secreto de mi mujer poster
5.6

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.

El secreto de mi mujer

1955

El sol sale para todos poster
6.7

A bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story.

El sol sale para todos

1950

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

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

Se le pasó la mano poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Se le pasó la mano

1952

Comedians of the League poster
6.0

The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.

Comedians of the League

1957

Cuando los hijos odian poster
5.8

Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.

Cuando los hijos odian

1950

Sandunga para tres poster
6.0

Three boys and three girls. First all the boys are fighting over one of the girls, then all the boys are fighting over another of the girls and yadda yadda yadda.

Sandunga para tres

1953

Yo quiero ser hombre poster
6.6

In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better.

Yo quiero ser hombre

1950

¡… Y murío por nosotros! poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

¡… Y murío por nosotros!

1951

El valor de vivir poster
6.7

Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.

El valor de vivir

1954

Loving Was His Sin poster
6.0

Two sisters, who are devoted to each other, fall in love with the same man. One of them is terminally ill and after she dies there is suspicion she might have been murdered.

Loving Was His Sin

1951

La pantera negra poster
5.5

Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.

La pantera negra

1957

La sobrina del señor cura poster
6.7

A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?

La sobrina del señor cura

1954

El ruiseñor del barrio poster
5.8

Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?

El ruiseñor del barrio

1952

1940s · 11 titles

We the Poor poster
8.2

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.

We the Poor

1948

You the Rich poster
7.8

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

You the Rich

1948

Get Off at the Next Corner! poster
6.4

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.

Get Off at the Next Corner!

1948

Mi viuda alegre poster
5.7

A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.

Mi viuda alegre

1942

El tigre de Jalisco poster
5.8

A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit.

El tigre de Jalisco

1947

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

Hay lugar para... dos poster
6.6

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"

Hay lugar para... dos

1949

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

Dos de la vida airada poster
6.3

Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.

Dos de la vida airada

1948

Unidos por el eje poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Unidos por el eje

1942

Café de chinos poster
5.8

Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.

Café de chinos

1949

1930s · 5 titles

No artwork available
9.0

The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.

Charros, gauchos y manolas

1930

No artwork available
10.0

An irascible retired old lawyer exposes a diamond thief.

Curmudgeon

1930

The Trial of Mary Dugan poster
8.0

Spanish-language remake of the 1929 film of the same name. Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's brother Jimmy, a newly-licensed attorney, jumps into the case to defend his sister. Jimmy's courtroom style is unconventional, but he seems to be holding his own against the prosecuting attorney—until a surprise testimony changes the course of the trial...

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1931

Thus is Life poster
8.0

A British ex-Grenadier Guards officer moves to America, but struggles to find work. After he is employed as a chauffeur to a wealthy family, he falls in love with his employer's daughter.

Thus is Life

1930

No artwork available
NR

Early talkie, Spanish-language comedy short film.

Un fotógrafo distraído

1930