Manolita Saval

Acting

Manolita Saval

Born 1914-02-05 · Paris, France

Manolita Saval (5 February 1914 Paris, France – 23 August 2001 Mexico City, Mexico) was a Spanish actress and singer. She studied music and drama in Spain, and began her career performing the opera Marina in Valencia. As a lyric interpreter, she toured Latin America, eventually settling in Mexico in 1938. Over the course of her career, she appeared in over 30 films and television programs, as well as in plays, operettas, and operas. She was born in Paris of Spanish parents and named 'Juana María Saval'. She was the mother of the actor Manuel Saval, and the niece of the Spanish opera singer Vicente Ballester Aparício. Saval died in Mexico City on August 23, 2001 of cardiac arrest due to thrombosis.

Acting credits

Arrabalera poster
5.4

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.

Arrabalera

1951

The Minister and Me poster
7.1

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

The Minister and Me

1976

Virgen de medianoche poster
6.3

A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman.

Virgen de medianoche

1942

Esta noche no poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Esta noche no

1966

No artwork available
6.0

Two pen-pals decide to get married, but the groom cooks up a scheme to test his fiancee's moral fibr before they tie the knt.

Esa mujer es la mía

1942

El capitán Malacara poster
6.8

Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.

El capitán Malacara

1945

Los miserables poster
5.6

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings.

Los miserables

1943

Fantasía ranchera poster
6.8

Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.

Fantasía ranchera

1947

Dos Criados Malcriados poster
6.7

Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.

Dos Criados Malcriados

1960

María Eugenia poster
6.4

Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.

María Eugenia

1943

La culpable poster
5.7

Mexican movie

La culpable

1946

Pobre diablo poster
6.0

An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.

Pobre diablo

1940

Del suelo no paso poster
5.2

Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.

Del suelo no paso

1959

Santa poster
5.4

A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.

Santa

1969

La Guerra de los Pasteles poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

La Guerra de los Pasteles

1979

Adiós juventud poster
6.7

Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.

Adiós juventud

1943

El baisano Jalil poster
6.6

Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.

El baisano Jalil

1942

El Capitan Aventurero poster
5.8

Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.

El Capitan Aventurero

1939

El que tenga un amor poster
6.6

Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.

El que tenga un amor

1942