
Acting
Delia Magaña
Born 1903-02-02 · Mexico City, Mexico
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.
Acting credits
7.5An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Picardía mexicana
1978
6.7Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
María Pistolas
1963
6.4Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
El corrido de María Pistolas
1964
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Póker de reinas
1960
5.5White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.
Los Malditos
1966
6.0The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Comedians of the League
1957
6.3Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Alazán y enamorado
1966
6.0Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
The Prodigal Son
1968
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Lagunilla 2
1982
6.4Sister 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
6.0A 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
6.4Driver 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
5.8Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
Café de chinos
1949
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Se le pasó la mano
1952
6.7Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
El norteño
1963
5.5A cluster of young performers will do just about anything to get their show produced.
Bésame mucho
1945
An irascible retired old lawyer exposes a diamond thief.
Curmudgeon
1930
6.2Divorciadas 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
5.6A 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
10.0A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim. Alternate-language version of The Lady Who Dared (1930).
La dama atrevida
1931
8.2Rosario, 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
6.0Three 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
8.0Spanish-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
8.1Carpenter 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