Esther Fernández

Acting

Esther Fernández

Born — Died

1917-08-23 — 1999-10-21

Place of birth

Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

From Wikipedia María Esther Fernández González, better known as Esther Fernández (August 23, 1917 in Mascota, Jalisco Mexico – October 21, 1999 in Mexico City, Mexico), was a Mexican film and television actress. She was one of the first female major stars of the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema" in the 1930s and 1940s. Fernández began her career as an extra in the film La Mujer del Puerto (1934). Her beauty and charisma drew the attention of film director Fernando de Fuentes, who gave her the female lead role of Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), opposite Tito Guizar. The film is regarded as marking the start of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. During the rest of the 1930s, Fernández acted in…

Known for

Doña Perfecta poster
7.0

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Doña Perfecta

1951

Two Years Before the Mast poster
6.5

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).

Two Years Before the Mast

1946

Allá en el Rancho Grande poster
6.0

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.

Allá en el Rancho Grande

1936

Ahí vienen los Mendoza poster
6.3

Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.

Ahí vienen los Mendoza

1948

Every Child a Cross to Bear poster
6.7

Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).

Every Child a Cross to Bear

1957

Santa poster
6.2

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.

Santa

1943

Film credits

1950s · 17 titles

Doña Perfecta poster
7.0

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Doña Perfecta

1951

Every Child a Cross to Bear poster
6.7

Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).

Every Child a Cross to Bear

1957

El billetero poster
5.8

Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.

El billetero

1953

Hipólito, el de Santa poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hipólito, el de Santa

1950

Sangre en el barrio poster
5.8

Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.

Sangre en el barrio

1952

La calle de los amores poster
5.6

Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.

La calle de los amores

1954

Reportaje poster
7.3

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Reportaje

1953

Los hijos de Rancho Grande poster
6.7

Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.

Los hijos de Rancho Grande

1956

Flor de sangre poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Flor de sangre

1951

Pancho Villa Returns poster
6.0

It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.

Pancho Villa Returns

1950

Víctimas del divorcio poster
5.8

The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.

Víctimas del divorcio

1952

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tu vida entre mis manos

1955

El lunar de la familia poster
6.6

Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Luisa, and his sister Esther. Unfortunately for the visitors, Luisa's goddaughter Rosita, is sitting near them in the same train car. She soon catches wind of the boys' wild tendencies, and makes a point of telling Luisa. Furious, the crotchety old woman decides to teach the bad boys a lesson by beating them senseless with her cane and forcing Luis to seek out a proper mate for Esther. Unfortunately, Esther has already fallen in love with Antonio - who could care less.

El lunar de la familia

1953

Pancho Villa vuelve poster
6.5

Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.

Pancho Villa vuelve

1950

Genio y figura poster
6.5

When the pregnant Esther gets some bad news from her doctor, he advises her to visit a clinic in Mexico City, so she enlists husband Antonio to drive her there at once, along with her brother Luis. As soon as the men drop her off at the hospital, they hit a local nightclub and live it up, and as they are leaving the club in the company of a sexy dancer, they get thoroughly robbed: the criminals even steal the poor victims' clothes! Taken in to the police station and documented along the way, their photograph turns up in the paper the next day, which Esther of course sees. The men will have a lot to explain when they arrive at the clinic to pick up Esther.

Genio y figura

1953

Encrucijada poster
6.0

Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.

Encrucijada

1956

Surcos de sangre poster
8.0

Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.

Surcos de sangre

1950

1940s · 19 titles

Two Years Before the Mast poster
6.5

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).

Two Years Before the Mast

1946

Ahí vienen los Mendoza poster
6.3

Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.

Ahí vienen los Mendoza

1948

Santa poster
6.2

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.

Santa

1943

No artwork available
4.0

Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.

Fashion Horizons

1940

Prisión de sueños poster
6.7

Luis el Roto is a laborer who, due to a lack of money, cannot marry his girlfriend Rosa; they live in a poor alleyway with their respective mothers. Luis is loved by the prostitute Carlota, and for this reason he despises the pimp Rodolfo, who beats Luis in the public restrooms. Tragedy looms over Luis.

Prisión de sueños

1949

Mujer poster
6.7

Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.

Mujer

1947

The Underdogs poster
6.3

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.

The Underdogs

1940

La santa del barrio poster
5.4

Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.

La santa del barrio

1948

Las mañanitas poster
5.4

Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...

Las mañanitas

1948

In the Shadow of the Bridge poster
6.0

In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.

In the Shadow of the Bridge

1948

Flor de durazno poster
5.5

City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.

Flor de durazno

1945

De pecado en pecado poster
6.0

This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance, the film's Director Chano Urueta ( who became an acclaimed actor in his own right), actually co-wrote the script along with one of its principal actresses, namely Esther Fernandez, as well as adding in the literary abilities of a well-known movie-producer of the era named Luis Marique.

De pecado en pecado

1948

Cantaclaro poster
6.5

A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.

Cantaclaro

1946

La fuga poster
5.8

A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.

La fuga

1944

Extraña cita poster
6.3

After her father's death, María Eugenia is pressured by Don Remigio Pérez who her father owed debts to, to marry her. Instead, the kindly Roberto de los Ríos pays off her debts and she goes to live at his country house with his two twin nephews Carlos and Leonardo. However, she faces an attempt to murder.

Extraña cita

1947

The Last Adventure poster
6.3

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.

The Last Adventure

1946

La carne manda poster
5.8

Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.

La carne manda

1948

Esperanza poster
5.7

Mexican movie

Esperanza

1946

Cuatro vidas poster
5.4

Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.

Cuatro vidas

1949

1930s · 11 titles

Allá en el Rancho Grande poster
6.0

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.

Allá en el Rancho Grande

1936

Beyond Death poster
6.7

Yolanda, the wife of renowned Spanish composer Enrique Montenegro, has grown weary of her husband's constant infidelities and neglect. While attending a bullfight, she meets the celebrated matador Eduardo Franco, and the two begin a romance

Beyond Death

1935

Mi candidato poster
5.8

Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.

Mi candidato

1937

Ojos tapatios poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Ojos tapatios

1938

The Woman of the Port poster
6.0

Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...

The Woman of the Port

1934

Una luz en mi camino poster
6.0

In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.

Una luz en mi camino

1939

Tierra brava poster
5.6

Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.

Tierra brava

1938

The Dressel Family poster
4.0

The Dressel family owns a prosperous hardware store in the city. The business is managed by Mrs. Dressel, a strict widow who has two sons: Federico and Rodolfo. Federico falls in love with the singer Magdalena and marries her against Frau Dressel’s wishes, as she wants her heir to marry a German woman. The young couple must face constant harassment from Frau Dressel and an accusation of adultery.

The Dressel Family

1935

Hombres del mar poster
5.7

A 1938 film.

Hombres del mar

1938

La Adelita poster
5.8

Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.

La Adelita

1937

The Macabre Trunk poster
5.7

A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.

The Macabre Trunk

1936