Mapy Cortés
Actor · 1910 – 1998 · Santurce, Puerto Rico
Maria del Pilar Cordero (March 1, 1910 – August 2, 1998), better known as Mapy Cortés, was a Puerto Rican actress who acted in many films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Cortés appeared in the U.S. State Department propaganda short film "Mexican Moods". In 1942, Cortés made her only foray into Hollywood cinema, playing a singer in the RKO wartime musical comedy Seven Days' Leave. Her eponymous character is engaged to Victor Mature's soldier character before he falls in love with a socialite played by Lucille Ball. After filming Seven Days Leave, Mapy Cortés returned to Mexico City and played roles in contemporary romantic comedies and nostalgia musicals set during the Mexican Belle Époque. The 1945 Mapy Cortés vehicle La pícara Susana / Mischievous Susana[5] marked the directorial debut of her husband Fernando. After Fernando died, Mapy returned to Puerto Rico and led a relatively quiet life. In 1998 she died at her home of a heart attack. She was buried at the Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
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Movie6.5ComedyDramaThe film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.
Los expatriados
1963 · 4 votes
Movie7.9ComedyCrimeA gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Movie5.8ComedyMusicGlobe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
Las cinco noches de Adán
1942 · 4 votes
Movie5.6DramaAdventureBased on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.
El conde de Montecristo
1942 · 9 votes
Movie7.3ComedyRomanceSoldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen. Not wanting to disrupt his planned marriage to Mapy, Johnny must figure out how to concoct a temporary marriage-of-convenience with the descendant -- who turns out to be the beautiful Terry Havelock-Allen.
Seven Days' Leave
1942 · 3 votes
Movie6.7ComedyPapá se desenreda
1942 · 3 votes
Movie5.6Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
Recién casados... no molestar
1951 · 5 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA doctor must pretend to be single and his wife follows him to the field causing a series of incidents.
Al marido hay que seguirlo
1948 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyFocuses on the emotional life of two women, whose husbands, with labor excuses, make "outings" from 7 to 9 at night.
Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9
1946 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaTwo men are shipwrecked and arrive in the Kingdom of Eden, where the women control all the power.
El sexo fuerte
1946 · 6 votes
Movie4.8DramaThe young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money.
Movie6.4ComedyIn Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate and resorts to the reigning prince.
La hija del regimiento
1944 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyMusicLight comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
1942 · 7 votes
Movie5.8Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
La Guerra de los Pasteles
1944 · 5 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyA not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
Movie6.2ComedyThe wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.
Movie6.3The strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.
Un beso en la noche
1945 · 3 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaFrivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.
Las tandas del principal
1949 · 5 votes
Movie6.21940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Internado para señoritas
1943 · 5 votes
Movie5.7ComedyDramaSocialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
La pícara Susana
1945 · 3 votes
Movie5.4Uni professor is voted "Hunkiest teacher of the year." Madcap complications.
El amor las vuelve locas
1946 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceManuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.
Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
1966 · 3 votes