Esther Fernández
From Wikipedia María Esther Fernández González, better known as Esther Fernández (August 23, 1917 in Mascota, Jalisco Mexico – October 21, 1999 in Mexico City, Mexico), was a Mexican film and television actress. She was one of the first female major stars of the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema" in the 1930s and 1940s. Fernández began her career as an extra in the film La Mujer del Puerto (1934). Her beauty and charisma drew the attention of film director Fernando de Fuentes, who gave her the female lead role of Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), opposite Tito Guizar. The film is regarded as marking the start of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. During the rest of the 1930s, Fernández acted in hit movies including Amapola del Camino (1937), with Andrea Palma and Tito Guizar; Mi Candidato (1938), with Joaquín Pardavé and Pedro Armendàriz; and Los de Abajo, with Isabela Corona and Emilio Fernández. Her popularity caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which promoted her films in Latin America and invited her to work in Hollywood. In 1943 she starred in the second sound version of the classic Mexican film Santa, directed by Norman Foster, opposite Ricardo Montalban. In 1946 she acted in the Hollywood film Two Years Before the Mast, with Brian Donlevy and Alan Ladd. Her last appearance was in the film Reclusorio II (1997).
Known For
Credits
- 1992 · Los años de Greta as
- 1957 · Each child, a cross as Lupita
- 1956 · Encrucijada as
- 1956 · Los hijos de Rancho Grande as Cruz
- 1955 · Tu vida entre mis manos as Laura Ocampo
- 1954 · La calle de los amores as
- 1953 · Reportaje as Nurse
- 1953 · El lunar de la familia as
- 1953 · Genio y figura as
- 1953 · El billetero as
- 1952 · Víctimas del divorcio as
- 1952 · Sangre en el barrio as
- 1951 · Doña Perfecta as Rosario
- 1951 · Flor de sangre as
- 1950 · Pancho Villa Returns as Teresa Mota
- 1950 · Surcos de sangre as Isabel
- 1950 · Hipólito, el de Santa as
- 1950 · Pancho Villa vuelve as
- 1949 · Cuatro vidas as
- 1949 · Prisión de sueños as
- 1948 · La santa del barrio as
- 1948 · Ahí vienen los Mendoza as Claudia
- 1948 · Las mañanitas as
- 1948 · A la sombra del puente as
- 1948 · La carne manda as
- 1948 · De pecado en pecado as
- 1947 · Mujer as
- 1947 · Extraña cita as
- 1946 · Two Years Before the Mast as Maria Dominguez
- 1946 · The Last Adventure as Graciela Hernández
- 1946 · Cantaclaro as
- 1946 · Esperanza as
- 1945 · Flor de durazno as Rina
- 1944 · La Fuga as Maria Ines Flores
- 1943 · Santa as Santa
- 1940 · Fashion Horizons as
- 1940 · The Underdogs as Camila
- 1938 · Hombres del mar as Marina
- 1938 · Tierra brava as
- 1938 · Ojos tapatios as Lucha
- 1937 · La Adelita as
- 1937 · Mi candidato as
- 1936 · Allá en el Rancho Grande as Cruz
- 1936 · The Macabre Trunk as Alicia Monroy
- 1934 · The Woman of the Port as Mujer de cabaret