María Gentil Arcos

Born: 1905-04-12

María Gentil Arcos was an actress, known for Demonio y carne (1951), Campeón sin corona (1946) and Un divorcio (1953). She died on July 18, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico.


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We the Poor

as La Paralítica
Released: 1948-03-25

A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter...

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Él

as Sirvienta en cena (uncredited)
Released: 1953-07-09

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

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Susana

as Felisa
Released: 1951-04-11

The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up...

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El bombero atómico

as Doña Cleofas (uncredited)
Released: 1952-09-10

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose...

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El Portero

as Vecina chismosa (uncredited)
Released: 1950-05-03

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn...

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A Family Like Many Others

as Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Released: 1949-03-11

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an...

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Woman Without a Soul

as Mamá de Rosita
Released: 1944-10-10

Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.

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They also sing of pain

as Asistente de Facundo (uncredited)
Released: 1950-08-31

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off...

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El Mago

as Clienta de Krishnar (uncredited)
Released: 1949-05-04

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

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Aventurera

as Petra, Rosaura's maid
Released: 1950-10-18

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena...

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Por querer a una mujer

as uncredited
Released: 1951-09-14

Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.

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Champion Without Crown

as Doña Gracia, Madre de Roberto (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Released: 1946-09-05

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid...

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Huellas del pasado

as Lupe, nana
Released: 1950-11-01

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however,...

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Rosenda

as Señorita Rocha
Released: 1948-10-20

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her...

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Guardián, el perro salvador

as uncredited
Released: 1950-04-05

Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from...

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Las dos huerfanitas

as uncredited
Released: 1950-10-18

Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.

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Far from Heaven

as Trabajadora (uncredited)
Released: 1952-02-27

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to...

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Doña Perfecta

as Librada
Released: 1951-10-10

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there,...

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A Place Close to Heaven

as Empleada despedida (uncredited)
Released: 1952-08-22

On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that...

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El gran espectáculo

as uncredited
Released: 1958-09-11

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La loca

as Señora de Angostura
Released: 1952-05-29

Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the...

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Frontera norte

as Madre Lolita
Released: 1953-10-08

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

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La dama del velo

as Asistente de Andrea
Released: 1949-06-01

Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's...

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When mommy comes back

as Doña Matilde (uncredited)
Released: 1961-03-02

A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without...

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Women's prison

as Guardia
Released: 1951-09-28

Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was...

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Romance de fieras

as uncredited
Released: 1954-06-24

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and...

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Chucho el Roto

as uncredited
Released: 1954-09-16

Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance...

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Paco, el elegante

as Tia Consuelo
Released: 1952-01-03

Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes...

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Monte de piedad

as Doña Lupita, madre de María
Released: 1951-08-01

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their...

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Guanajuato Road

as uncredited
Released: 1955-01-01

The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and...

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The White Monk

as Peregrina
Released: 1945-10-06

In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray...

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Comisario en turno

as uncredited
Released: 1949-02-11

Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their...

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Un divorcio

as uncredited
Released: 1953-08-12

Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil...

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Otra primavera

as uncredited
Released: 1950-04-27

His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How...

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Los Fernández de Peralvillo

as Doña Gracia; madre de Raquel
Released: 1954-09-14

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a...

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Padre contra hijo

as Eloisa Ruiz, madre de Juan de Dios
Released: 1955-08-23

Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of...

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Enemigos

as uncredited
Released: 1956-08-16

One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits...

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Cuando me vaya

as uncredited
Released: 1954-06-04

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.

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La vida en broma

as Invited to party
Released: 1950-05-24

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and...

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Caminos de sangre

as uncredited
Released: 1945-12-07

A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.

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Ave de paso

as uncredited
Released: 1948-01-01

Mexican movie

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Lo que no se puede perdonar!..

as Hermana religiosa
Released: 1953-10-09

Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her...

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El gran premio

as Anciana en asilo (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Released: 1958-07-24

Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a...

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White hair

as Lucía
Released: 1950-05-05

Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.

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Fierecilla

as uncredited
Released: 1951-05-03

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both,...

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La reina del trópico

as Doña Trini (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Released: 1946-10-25

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Slum

as uncredited
Released: 1950-12-08

Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...

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Las tres Elenas

as uncredited
Released: 1954-04-15

A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with...

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What a Man

as uncredited
Released: 1955-01-05

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

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..Y mañana serán mujeres

as uncredited
Released: 1955-02-15

Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls...

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Nunca debieron amarse

as uncredited
Released: 1951-09-21

Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.

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