Columba Domínguez
Columba Domínguez Adalid (March 4, 1929 – August 13, 2014) was a Mexican film actress. Considered a crucial figure in theGolden Age of Mexican cinema. Considered one of the muses of the film director Emilio Fernández, who, moreover, was romantically linked for several years. She is remembered particularly for her performance in the film Pueblerina (1949), considered one of the jewels of the Mexican Cinema. Columba Domínguez Adalid born on March 4, 1929 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, reaching very young with her family to the Mexico City. When she went to a party with one of her sisters, was discovered by the Mexican film director Emilio Fernández, who was amazed by her beauty with very marked Mexican features and gives you entry to a movie with little roles in films such as La perla (1945) and Río Escondido (1947). In 1948, Fernandez give her the antagonistic role in the film Maclovia (1948), with María Félix. Her performance is praised by critics and thanks to this film, Fernández entrusted with the leading role that would become her best film: Pueblerina (1948). Thanks to this movie Columba rises the stardom rapidly and becomes known worldwide to be presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In that same year she participated in La Malquerida, with Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. Preceded by the success of Pueblerina, Columba was contracted in Italy to participate in the film L'Edera (1950).[1] The same year, she filming Un día de vida, which went unnoticed in Mexico, but became a huge success in the former Yugoslavia, released in 1952. Encased in native roles, Columba separates professionally Fernandez in 1952, which allowed them to become one first figure and work under the orders of other filmmakers, such as Luis Bunuel (with whom she worked in El río y la muerte (1955)), Fernando Méndez (director of the cult film Ladrón de cadáveres (1957), considered one of the best Mexican horror films) and Ismael Rodriguez (who took her to star in two masterpieces: Los Hermanos de Hierro (1961) and Ánimas Trujano (1962), with the Japanese actorToshiro Mifune), among others. In 1962 she participated in El tejedor de milagros, a film that represented Latin America in the IX Berlin Film Festival. Columba also made the first official nude in the Mexican Cinema in the film La virtud desnuda. (1956). In the television, Domínguez participed in some telenovelas like La tormenta (1967) and El carruaje (1972). Her last appearance in the television was in Aprendiendo a amar(1979). After her retirement in 1987, Columba was devoted to dance, humanistic art, painting (coming to exhibit in Europe) and piano. In 2008, after more than 20 years of retirement from cinema, the Mexican director Roberto Fiesco, returned her to the cinema with the short film Paloma. That same year, Dominguez was honored by the International Film Festival de la Frontera, in Ciudad Juarez, in which some of the most representative titles in which he participated were projected.[2] In 2010, Domínguez made a special appearances in the films La cebra and Borrar la memoria.[3] In 2012, she participates in the film El último trago. In May 2013, Columba Domínguez was honored with the Golden Ariel Award for her contributions to the Mexican film industry.
The River and Death
as MercedesA useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican...
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The Pearl
as uncreditedFisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor...
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The Paper Man
as Señorita Directora de casa hogarA deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he...
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Maclovia
as SaraOn a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who...
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La malquerida
as AcaciaEmilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and...
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El tejedor de milagros
as RemediosArnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and...
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My Son, the Hero
as The WidowNorthern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons...
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Pueblerina
as PalomaAurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and...
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One Day of Life
as Belén MartíA story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the...
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Bread, Love and Andalucia
as uncreditedDetermined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates...
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Unfaithful Wives
as uncreditedA bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
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The Important Man
as JuanaAnimas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above...
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Historia de un abrigo de mink
as uncreditedFour anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
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Pepita Jimenez
as Joven andaluza (uncredited)On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first...
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Borrar de la Memoria
as Mamá de RobertoA love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose...
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Duelo de pistoleros
as uncreditedFour expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that...
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The Body Snatcher
as LucíaA detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of...
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Pueblo, canto y esperanza
as uncreditedAnthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
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Mi niño Tizoc
as uncreditedTizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father...
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Río escondido
as MerceditasCalled by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is...
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Reportaje
as PetraReporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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La virtud desnuda
as uncreditedA certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors...
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Five lives and one destiny
as María FloresJailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border.
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Adventure at the Center of the Earth
as uncreditedAfter a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad...
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La sombra de los hijos
as uncreditedDying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children...
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Arriba Michoacán
as uncreditedThe two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk...
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La fuerza de los humildes
as uncreditedUnethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and...
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Viva la parranda
as uncreditedThree con-artists chase after the absconded girlfriend of one and butt heads with two female...
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La bienamada
as uncreditedCivic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little...
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Mujeres que trabajan
as Isabel VilladaWomen connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond...
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Llanto por Juan Indio
as uncreditedThe story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced...
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El hombre propone...
as uncreditedAnthology film, four stories set in Guadalajara and environs.
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The She-Wolf
as Marcela de FernandezA wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
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Little Town
as AsunciónReactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
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Tragic Cabaret
as SimonaYoung woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a...
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Wounded Dove
as uncreditedThe story of a native Mexican who wants to kill a man.
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Ramona
as RamonaRamona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the...
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Cuando levanta la niebla
as uncreditedOne mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as...
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Lawless Youth
as Sra. SilvaJorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the...
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El caudillo
as uncreditedBad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white...
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Paloma
as PalomaRomán has decided to leave his native town, but first he must say goodbye to Paloma.
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Marcelo y María
as uncreditedLate 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each...
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Duelo indio
as XochicalpaA cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but...
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Devotion
as uncreditedIn Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi...
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Enterrado vivo
as uncreditedFinal four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts...
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Los ricos también lloran
as MaríaPopular telenovela produced in Mexico in 1979, starring Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and...
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