Mapy Cortés
Maria del Pilar Cordero (March 1, 1910 – August 2, 1998), better known as Mapy Cortés, was a Puerto Rican actress who acted in many films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Cortés appeared in the U.S. State Department propaganda short film "Mexican Moods". In 1942, Cortés made her only foray into Hollywood cinema, playing a singer in the RKO wartime musical comedy Seven Days' Leave. Her eponymous character is engaged to Victor Mature's soldier character before he falls in love with a socialite played by Lucille Ball. After filming Seven Days Leave, Mapy Cortés returned to Mexico City and played roles in contemporary romantic comedies and nostalgia musicals set during the Mexican Belle Époque. The 1945 Mapy Cortés vehicle La pícara Susana / Mischievous Susana[5] marked the directorial debut of her husband Fernando. After Fernando died, Mapy returned to Puerto Rico and led a relatively quiet life. In 1998 she died at her home of a heart attack. She was buried at the Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
The Unknown Policeman
as La criollitaA gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces...
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El conde de Montecristo
as HaydéeAdaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
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Guard! Alert!
as VedetteThe young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two...
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La Guerra de los Pasteles
as uncreditedMusical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
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Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
as uncreditedManuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant...
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Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
as Rosa / VioletaLight comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed...
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La liga de las canciones
as uncreditedInternational committee mounts a revue to promote Pan-American unity. Showbiz hotel rom-com...
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Las tandas del principal
as uncreditedFrivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his...
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The Pharaoh's Court
as LotaThe wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious...
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Recién casados... no molestar
as uncreditedNewly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that...
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Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
as InésA not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and...
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Seven Days' Leave
as Mapy (as Mapy Cortes)Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns...
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El amor las vuelve locas
as uncreditedUni professor is voted "Hunkiest teacher of the year." Madcap complications.
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Los expatriados
as PerlaThe film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary...
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Internado para señoritas
as uncredited1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
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La hija del regimiento
as uncreditedIn Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate...
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Las 5 noches de Adán
as uncreditedGlobe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international...
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El sexo fuerte
as uncreditedTwo men are shipwrecked and arrive in the Kingdom of Eden, where the women control all the power.
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El globo de Cantolla
as uncreditedThree boys and three girls in the 1890s.
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Dormitorio para señoritas
as uncreditedYoung lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.
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Un beso en la noche
as uncreditedThe strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.
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Cinco minutos de amor
as LulúBedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
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La pícara Susana
as uncreditedSocialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball...
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Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9
as uncreditedFocuses on the emotional life of two women, whose husbands, with labor excuses, make "outings"...
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Al marido hay que seguirlo
as uncreditedA doctor must pretend to be single and his wife follows him to the field causing a series of...
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Venezuela también canta
as uncreditedA group of musicians try to establish a pacifist Latin American philharmonic orchestra. They...
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Mexican Moods
as SelfThis 1942 travelogue film, directed by Aldo Ermini and sponsored by the Office of the...
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