Christiane Martel
Actor · b. 1932 · Piennes, France
Christiane Martel (born Christiane Magnani on 18 January 1932) is a French actress and beauty queen who became the second woman to win Miss Universe in 1953. Martel was crowned Miss France by outgoing titleholder Claude Godart and represented France at Miss Universe 1953 where she became the second Miss Universe. She was crowned by actress, Julie Adams as Miss Universe 1952, Armi Kuusela of Finland gave up her crown. Martel's runners-up in the 1953 pageant was Myrna Hansen of the USA, followed by delegates of Japan, Mexico, and Australia. Shortly after her reign, Martel embarked on a successful career in international films, appearing in movies such as Yankee Pasha, So This Is Paris, Abajo el Telón, the 1956 version of Corazón salvaje (playing the villain Aimée), Viva el Amor!, Rosa Blanca and her last film to date, 1961's Leoni al Sole.
Movies21
Movie9.0RomanceComedyThree sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.
So This Is Paris
1954 · 3 votes
Movie6.8ComedyFour penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.
- Movie5.6
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
Señoritas
1959 · 5 votes
Movie7.6ComedyCantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Movie5.8Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.
Impaciencia del corazón
1960 · 4 votes
Movie5.3AdventureRomanceTale of an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates.
Yankee Pasha
1954 · 3 votes
- Movie5.8
Estampida
1959 · 4 votes
Movie6.0An older gentleman takes responsibility for molding a young showgirl's career; there seems to be a romantic link between them, but she has lots of side-pieces running around, and a serious boyfriend waiting in the wings...
Una lección de amor
1956 · 3 votes
Movie5.1ComedyThe endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.
Leoni al sole
1961 · 8 votes
Movie4.4DramaFantasyAdam and Eve are placed by God in Paradise, but because of the world-infamous sin they committed, God decides to teach them a lesson.
- Movie5.4
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 votes
Movie7.3DramaAn international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
Movie6.7DramaWarPeasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
Juana Gallo
1961 · 16 votes
Movie5.5Don Manuel is a successful bathing suit designer that decides to retire tired of his business. While doing so, he announces he will leave his company in the hands of his own employers. If during a year they manage to increase the sales of their designs, he will leave the company in their hands definitively. Otherwise, it will be inherited by his three spoiled nieces. Annoyed by the fact that his uncle has refuse them the company, the three girls plot to seduce the workers leaders in order to make them fail in their sales goal so they can recover the company.
- Movie6.0ComedyDrama
Man wants to dump wife for a new girlfriend; all three end up weekending in Acapulco together along with a gentleman the wife meets enroute, and all four explore the possibility of forming new relationships.
¡Viva el amor!
1958 · 4 votes
Movie5.3International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
Bataclán mexicano
1956 · 6 votes
Movie6.6DramaFamilyBiopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Yo pecador
1959 · 5 votes
Movie5.5AdventureThe most fearsome pirate in epic deeds and fierce battles. Betrayed and abandoned on an island, discover a fabulous treasure and fight to the death to save a child from the dangers and wild beasts.
The Little Savage
1959 · 6 votes
Movie6.7Feature on the adventures that develop the most perfect of false priest.
El Padre pistolas
1961 · 3 votes
Movie6.3DramaRomanceOn the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.
- Movie6.7
Mauricio flees from the police and takes refuge in the apartment of Ivonne, who gives him blood to save his life. Carlos the policeman who is in love with her, finds Mauricio's passport and has the inspector offer 10 thousand pesos to whoever turns him in. Mauricio confesses to Ivonne that he is innocent of the crime, and asks her to marry him.
Infierno de almas
1960 · 3 votes