Libertad Lamarque
Birthday: Born in 1908-11-24 in Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina
Deathday: 2000-12-12
Libertad Lamarque (November 24, 1908 – December 12, 2000) was an Argentine actress and singer, one of the icons of the Golden Age of Argentine and Mexican cinema. She achieved fame throughout Latin America, and became known as “La Novia de América” (“The Sweetheart of the Americas”). By the time she died in 2000, she had appeared in 65 films (21 filmed in Argentina, 45 in Mexico and one in Spain) and six soap operas, had recorded over 800 songs and had made innumerable theatrical appearances.
TV Credits
Siempre lunes
Character: Self - Guest
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Más allá de... La usurpadora
Character: Abuela Piedad vda. de Bracho
A few years pass after Paulina Martinez gets married to Carlos Daniel. She is now Paulina Bracho and she is now going to school. She has two loving step-children who love her and a new child of her own with Carlos Daniel. Everything seems like a happy end to the original story. But, when Paulina goes to the Doctor to check up on an exam, only the worst happens, she thinks she has anemia, but the doctor has discovered that she has cancer and has only 6 months to live, now she must hide her secret...
La usurpadora
Character: Abuela Piedad vda de Bracho
The show's premise revolves around a pair of twin sisters who were separated when they were young, and as adults the younger sister is forced to act as a "replacement" for her wealthy twin who wants to temporarily leave her husband and his family to enjoy a life of luxury with multiple lovers....
Carita de Ángel
Character: Madre Superiora Piedad 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...
Movie Credits
Gran Casino
Character: Mercedes Irigoyen
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened....
Bello recuerdo
Character: Lucy
Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist....
Nunca es tarde para amar
Character:
A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence....
Soledad
Character: Soledad / Cristina Palermo
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....
Remember to Live
Character: Yolanda
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her....
Anxiety
Character:
Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to their very different social backgrounds....
Si volvieras a mi
Character: Alejandra
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La vida de Pedro Infante
Character: (archive footage)
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Arrullo de Dios
Character:
Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama....
Madreselva
Character: Bianca
A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it....
Puerta cerrada
Character: Nina Miranda
Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth....
Music School
Character: Laura Galván
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Creo en ti
Character:
A rich young woman marries a man who will disappoint her emotionally and financially....
The Sin of a Mother
Character: Ana María
A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later......
Te Sigo Esperando
Character:
Romantic melodrama...
Huellas del pasado
Character: Isabel / Issa Valetti
A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations....
La marquesa del barrio
Character:
Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life....
La infame
Character: Cristina Ferrán
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child....
Cuando me vaya
Character:
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever....
La dama del velo
Character: Andrea del Monte
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later......
Otra primavera
Character:
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?...
Golden Wedding
Character:
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage...
Historia de un amor
Character:
Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc....
Forgotten Faces
Character: Rosario Velazquez
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters....
Amor en la sombra
Character: Claudia Montes
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover....
Cuatro copas
Character:
Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist....
Rosas blancas para mi hermana negra
Character: Laura
The story revolves around Laura, a white singer, and Angustias, her longtime black friend, with both mothers dedicated to the education of their daughters: Alicia and Roberta. Trouble ensues when Laura’s daughter, Alicia, falls in love with Ricardo, a young black medical student....
Reportaje
Character: Unemployed Singer
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve....
Yo pecador
Character:
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood....
Canta mi corazón
Character:
Teen-pop singer launches his career. Family conflicts and girlfriend troubles....
Ayúdame a vivir
Character: Luisita
While studying at a Catholic boarding school, the young Luisa meets a boy, Julio, who talks to her from the street and through the gate. However, the girl's arrogant older brother removes her from the establishment and takes her to live in her family house. The beginning of love between Luisa and Julio is made even more difficult by what seems to be the beginning of a disease in her....
The Prodigal Son
Character: Alegría Román
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter....
La cabalgata del circo
Character: Nita
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs....
Canción del alma
Character:
Life in a theatre-people hotel, mostly focusing on a singer and her young-adult daughter who just graduated from an expensive private school....
¡Tango!
Character: Elena
¡Tango! follows a formula established by Carlos Gardel with films such as Luces de Buenos Aires (The Lights of Buenos Aires, 1931) in which a melodramatic story is interspersed with tango songs. However, the film had less dialog and more music, making it more like a musical revue. This format would be copied by many subsequent films. The plot is derived from tango songs. Many of these songs tell of the seduction of an innocent slum girl by a rich man who promises her a glamorous life, but who a...
Mi campeón
Character: Cantante
Catita 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....
Hoy he soñado con Dios
Character:
Aging widow interferes in the lives of her adult children....
La loca de los milagros
Character:
Retired singer with a history of mental illness acts as housemother for a gaggle of young adult 'friends' who exploit and disrespect her....
La mamá de la novia
Character:
Mother and daughter are both pop singers, but mom wants her little girl to get married. Wacky complications....
La mujer X
Character: Adriana
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son....
Eclipse de sol
Character: Sol Bernal
A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid....
La sonrisa de mamá
Character: Angéloca Zamora
Angelica Zamora is a famous actress and singer, ignored by her three children Julio, Clotilde and Felipe. After learning of a serious illness that leaves her little time to live, her children and their friends intend to make her spend her best moments without being aware of the disease she suffers. Julio will even propose to someone to please his mother....
El fin de la noche
Character: Lola Morel
A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance....
En el viejo Buenos Aires
Character:
The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs....
La ley que olvidaron
Character: María
The employee of a boarding house raises the daughter of a single mother and loves her so much that she kidnaps the girl and goes to jail....
Una vez en la vida
Character: María Cristina Campos
A woman helps a man escape from the police and ends up falling in love with him....
I Knew That Woman
Character:
The misadventures of a singer accused of murder are remembered by different people....
Bewitching Kisses
Character: Marga
A singer is kidnapped by a rancher and her boyfriend comes to rescue her....
Caminito de Gloria
Character:
A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace. Later, she goes blind....
Los hijos que yo soñé
Character:
Grieving widow finds new purpose in life as director of an orphanage....
Music of Always
Character:
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all....
Sabrás que te quiero
Character:
Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support....
El alma del bandoneón
Character: Elda
Two brilliant tango singers struggle to the top of their profession and cope with obstacles to their personal romance....
Black Is Beautiful
Character: Eugenia
An affluent Mexican performer is troubled when her son announces his intentions to marry a Black American woman, and her daughter exhibits erratic behavior....
Backstage
Character:
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth....
La casa del recuerdo
Character:
An old woman remembers when her daughter fell in love with a young neighbor, and she and her husband did everything to break that relationship....
Appointment at the Border
Character:
Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing them to turn against each other....
La loca
Character: Elena Prim viuda de Villaseñor
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited......
Romance musical
Character: Mecha Garay
A man thinks he's being cheated and hires a detective to watch over his wife on a cruise, but she hires a singer to impersonate her....