Marga López
Birthday: Born in 1924-06-21 in Tucumán, Argentina
Deathday: 2005-07-03
Marga López (21 June 1924 – 4 July 2005), born Catalina Margarita López Ramos, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Born in Argentina, she later acquired Mexican nationality.
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La Hora Marcada
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La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón....
Lazos de Amor
Character: Doña Mercedes vda. de Iturbe
Lazos de Amor is a Mexican telenovela from 1995. It aired on Televisa, and starred actress and singer Lucero....
El Privilegio de Amar
Character: Ana Joaquina Vda. de Velarde
El Privilegio de Amar is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 27 July 1998 through 26 February 1999. Starring Adela Noriega, René Strickler, Helena Rojo and Andrés García with the participation of leading actor Enrique Rocha and Cynthia Klitbo as the evil Tamara, who is the main villain. The telenovela tells the story of a fashion designer, Luciana, who begins searching for the daughter she abandoned years earlier, unaware the girl is ...
Alondra
Character: Leticia del Bosque
Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan. This telenovela contains 78 episodes....
Bajo la misma piel
Character: Esther Escalante [de Ortiz]
Bajo la misma piel, or internationally known as Under your Skin, is a Mexican television series produced by Televisa starting in 2003. It is an original telenovela from Martha Carrillo and Cristina García. Despite huge exposure prior to its premiere, Bajo la misma piel was only a moderate success in its country of origin, Mexico....
La pobre señorita Limantour
Character: Abuela Alice
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Te Sigo Amando
Character: Montserrat
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La casa en la playa
Character: Serena Rivas Molina de Rincón
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Carita de Ángel
Character: Madre General Asunción de la Luz
Carita de Angel is a remake of the telenovela Papa Corazon, which also was adapted for Mundo de juguete. Tells the story of Dulce Maria, a sweet, 5-year-old girl full of joy, compassion, and good feelings. After the death of her mother, her father Luciano Larios sinks into depression and lives abroad for a few years, leaving his daughter and loved ones behind. Dulce Maria enrolls in a Catholic boarding school for girls called "Reina de America" (Queen of America) to be taken care of by the nuns...
El Manantial
Character: Mother Superior
In the village of San Andres, the rivalry between two families the Valdes and the Ramirez is centered on "El Manantial", a beautiful fountain of water that happens to bathe the small property of the Valdes and not the neighboring ranch, the rich and prosperous hacienda "Piedras Grandes", where the best cattle are raised and is property of the Ramirez. But the spring is not the real reason for the hatred between the families. Justo Ramirez, married to Margarita Insunza, had a relationship with Fr...
Aventuras en el Tiempo
Character: Urraca Valdepeña
Violeta lives with her uncle because her mother died soon after she was born and she never knew her father, she stays with her grandmother from time to time as well. Violeta has a boyfriend named Ángel who gives her a pet dog. While at her grandmother's house, Violeta discovers a time machine that her grandfather built, so she and her friends travel to different time periods. They visit several important events in Mexican history, learning these stories firsthand....
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Nazarin
Character: Beatriz
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside....
The Book of Stone
Character: Julia Septien
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden....
Even the Wind Is Afraid
Character: Bernarda
A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost....
Reclusorio
Character: Lic. Suarez (segment "La Prostituta violada")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"...
¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
Character: María Cristina
After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead....
Vuelven los García
Character: Lupita
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them....
The Three Garcías
Character: Lupita Smith García
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them....
El hombre de la isla
Character: Berta Shel
Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early days of their marriage are a constant disappointment, especially when it finds that her husband has no resemblance to the author of the letters. He lives embittered by an old story and is hated by all....
A Place Close to Heaven
Character: Margarita
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide....
My Wife and the Other
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A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair....
Black Is My Color
Character: Luna / Blanca del Río
Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")...
The Naughty Son
Character: Waitress
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer....
La mentira
Character: Verónica Castillo Blanco
When Demetrio arrives at the mine to meet his brother Ricardo, he finds out that Ricardo has committed suicide for the love of a woman. He promises to avenge the death of his brother.....
Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
Character: Felicia
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used....
A Doll's House
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Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Mexican version of " A Doll's House." A spendthrift wife hides from her banker husband that she is in debt to a dishonorable employee her husband has fired....
Mamá Inés
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Diablos en el cielo
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Buddy movie about aviators....
El día de las madres
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Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children....
Soledad
Character: Evangelina
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life....
Crown of Tears
Character: Doña Refugio
Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living....
Arrabalera
Character: Rosita Villaseñor
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities....
Dueña y señora
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After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?...
Arm in Arm Down the Street
Character: María
Unhappy young married couple argue and almost break up their marriage....
Cartas Marcadas
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A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected....
Con la música por dentro
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Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich family....
Arriba el norte
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Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella....
La entrega
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Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies....
Lawless Youth
Character: Elisa
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father....
La Panchita
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Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between....
Eugenia Grandet
Character: Eugenia Grandet
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter....
Love in Four Parts
Character: María Valdés
Anthology film, four episodes....
Doña Macabra
Character: Armida, Doña Macabra
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets....
The Third Word
Character: Margarita Luján
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay....
Happy Year, My Love
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Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years....
Rosario
Character: Rosario del Carmen Trejo de Rosell
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ......
Una mujer sin destino
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"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia....
El diario de mi madre
Character: Merida Valdés
Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result....
Orquídeas para mi esposa
Character: Elena
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La agonía de ser madre
Character: Ana
She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home......
El último chinaco
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1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback....
Callejera
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Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father....
De carne somos
Character: Linda
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living....
Una mujer en la calle
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An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady....
El amor no es pecado (El cielo de los pobres)
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After her child dies in an accident, a woman's marriage collapses and she goes into a convent....
Salon Mexico
Character: Mercedes Gómez
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her....
Atrás de las nubes
Character: Eloísa Reina
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something......
El pecador
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College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters....
Las colegialas
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Girl goes to boarding school while her widowed father pursues a romance. His thing turns out badly, but she meets her future husband....
Perverse Doll
Character: Elena
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets....
Cuando acaba la noche
Character: Lina
In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity....
The Mocking Ghosts
Character: Berta Sandoval
Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts....
La edad de la inocencia
Character: Elisa
A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by....
El profe
Character: Hortensia
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments....
¿Qué haremos con papá?
Character: Ramona
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico....
Time to Die
Character: Mariana Sampedro
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father....
Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Character: Margarita
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs....
Mi adorada Clementina
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A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier....
Far from Heaven
Character: Marga
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes....
Midnight
Character: Rosita
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town....
La carcel de Laredo
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Unhappy about his daughter's choice of boyfriends, a wealthy big-wheel arranges to have the young man arrested for cocaine trafficking and continues pulling strings after his arrested, tried and incarcerated....
La ciudad de los niños
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Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage....
Girls in Uniform
Character: Lucila
Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school....
La sombra de los hijos
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Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing....
Después de la tormenta
Character: Rosa Rivero
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the scre...
Los perversos a-go-go
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Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him....
La dama del alba
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Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries. And meanwhile, there's a mysterious woman in black who shows up at the hacienda just before somebody dies....
La torre de marfil
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Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide....
Mi madre es Culpable
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"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia....
Un milagro de amor
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Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman......
Un divorcio
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Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners.....
Arrabalera
Character: Rosita
Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later......
Tu hijo debe nacer
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Melocotón en almíbar
Character: Sor María
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Navidades en junio
Character: Laura Medina
Comedy by Tulio Demicheli about Christmas in June....
Sueños de mujer
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based-on-novel...