Niní Marshall
Actor · 1903 – 1996 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Niní Marshall, born Marina Esther Traveso, was an Argentine actress, screenwriter and comedian. She is well known for creating two emblematic satirical characters, Cándida and Catita, two archetypes of 20th century European immigration, with whom she participated in a large part of her films.
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Movie5.5ComedyDramaCatita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952 · 4 votes
Movie9.0A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.
Escándalo en la familia
1967 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ComedyThe Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Una gallega en México
1949 · 6 votes
Movie6.2ComedyCándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Los enredos de una gallega
1951 · 5 votes
Movie7.2ComedyA young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.
Hay que educar a Niní
1940 · 12 votes
Movie5.5ComedyDramaSlapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.
Movie6.0ComedyMusicA rebel son decides not to follow in his father's footsteps in order to follow his own dreams of fame and popularity.
¡Qué linda es mi familia!
1980 · 2 votes
Movie8.5ComedyA woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.
Navidad de los pobres
1947 · 2 votes
Movie6.0ComedyMrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Dios los cría
1953 · 9 votes
Movie8.0ComedyAfter the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
1950 · 1 votes
Movie6.4ComedyLadylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
Una gallega baila mambo
1951 · 5 votes
Movie5.7ComedyCándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
Una gallega en La Habana
1955 · 6 votes
Movie7.0ComedyYa tiene comisario el pueblo
1967 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyCatita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.
Movie7.0MusicComedyA young man is forced for economic reasons to work as a ranch in the south of Argentina and there he tries to conquer a rich heiress.
Movie7.5ComedyYoung doctor falls in love with a nurse, but his parents insist he marry someone from his own economic class.
Porteña de corazón
1948 · 2 votes
Movie10.0RomanceComedyTwo women are River Plate Club fans, while their husbands are Boca Juniors fans. The males go out on their own, causing some trouble, until they are discovered.
Vamos a soñar por el amor
1971 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyHorrorA gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.
Movie9.0ComedyCándida and Jesús decide to purchase a Bed and Breakfast in Buenos Aires. But in the hostel already lived an Italian opera singer that provokes the jealousy of Cándida.
Los celos de Cándida
1940 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyCatita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them to achieve their ends.
Luna de miel en Río
1940 · 4 votes
Movie6.7ComedyCándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she mets a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
Cándida
1939 · 6 votes
Movie9.0ComedyIn Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
Madame Sans-Gêne
1945 · 1 votes
Movie9.5ComedyRomanceCándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..
Cleopatra era Cándida
1964 · 2 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyCatita intercedes when a producer courts a chorus girl who is the director's girlfriend.
Yo quiero ser bataclana
1941 · 5 votes