From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rita Macedo was a Mexican actress who performed during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was nominated for an Ariel Award for her 1956 performance in "Ensayo de un crimen" and in 1991 for a TVyNovelas Prize for "Alcanzar una estrella". She won the Best Actress Ariel Award in 1972 for "Tú, yo, y nosotros". She also was instrumental in bringing many works of international writers to the Mexican stage. She was married to a pioneer of Mexican radio, television and film, Luis de Llano Palmer, by whom she had two children, Julissa, an actress and musician, and Luis de Llano Macedo, renowned telenovela producer. On December 5, 1993, Macedo committed suicide after being diagnosed with cancer.
Alcanzar una estrella is a Mexican telenovela first broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1990. The telenovela, which was also broadcast in Latin America and on Univision in the United States, tells the story of an introverted girl's infatuation with her teen idol. The leading roles were played by singers Mariana Garza and Eduardo Capetillo, ex-members of the Mexican pop band Timbiriche. The two also sang the theme songs for the telenovela, which were written by Ricardo Arjona. Arjona and othe...
A young governess arrives to a country house to care for two small orphans. Suddenly she realizes that the mansion is infested with ghosts and evil presences that seek to possess and eventually destroy the children....
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After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside....
In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia....
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian....
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan......
A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits....
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings....
Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood....
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her....
1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls....
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?...
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love....
Luis Aguilar heads the cast in this story of a band of outlaws whose exploits are more fun than negligible....
Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood....
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man....
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard....
Newly-elected state governor is challenged by his responsibilities....
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost....
Western gunfighter Billy Kid decides to embark upon a new life and, accompanied by his sister, sets off on the long journey to his ranch. The journey is fraught with danger as Billy is attacked by both gunmen and lawmen....
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama....
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders....
Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia....
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him....
Wealthy family in the 1940s have failed to change with the times, and now everything's collapsing in their lives....
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama....
Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy....
Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her....
Three interwoven stories where the characters experience deception, passion, love and rejection....
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation....
Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star....
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away....
Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium....
Two Spanish soldiers, good friends, have to fight on the battlefield during the Peruvian war of independence....
Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass....
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder....
Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications....
Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc......
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa....
An 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....
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements....
The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting....
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico....
A musical band of teens travel by plane to a scheduled event where they will perform in scenario have an accident and get lost in the middle of the desert....
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Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis....
Mexican-Ecuadorian film from 1964, originally titled: ‘The Misadventures of Don Ventura’. A musical comedy created in the style of traditional classic Hollywood cinema of the 1950s, with the purpose of promoting Ecuador to the world through an idyllic vision of the country that erased economic, political and social conflicts, while offering its national and international viewers the idea of a harmonious nation in the process of modernization....
A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the outskirts. Coromoto's fears are increased because of the presence of a snake and the prophecies of the sorcerers. His government is threatened by the rebellious character of Piache, a warrior who also has his followers. One day Coromoto and his people have a vision in the lake of the Virgin Mary, but he doesn't trust on it, thinking that it's a negati...