María Félix — Actor (9)
An Ordinary Woman (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Una mujer cualquiera
director: Rafael Gil actor: María Félix / António Vilar
other title: Una mujer cualquiera
A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.
Ash Wednesday (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Miércoles de ceniza
other title: Miércoles de ceniza / Miércoles de Ceniza
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
Enamorada (1946) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Enamorada
director: 埃米利奥·费尔南德斯 actor: María Félix / Pedro Armendáriz
other title: 一见钟情 / Die Verliebte
Armendáriz was terrific in this. I won't repeat the praises from prior reviews, I concur.
My only problem with this film is that it wasn't true to the revolution. In that sense, it was indeed a Fernandez film as neither was he true to the revolution. He gave a Cristero slant to the issues of Church/State and redistribution of wealth. Just take it as a love story set in the revolutionary period and try to ignore the political bias. Jeeze, you'd think he'd have shown more gratitude having been pardoned by Lázaro Cárdenas for his treason.
Pedro Armendáriz, María Felix and the town of Cholula were the great stars of this film. The exteriors were certainly shot in Cholula.
There were some snippets of revolutionary period music (La Adelita and El Tren) and an anachronistic performance of Malageña Salerosa when he had mariachi serenade María Felix. That song is so lovely, I didn't mind.
French Cancan (1955) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
French Cancan
director: Jean Renoir actor: Jean Gabin / Françoise Arnoul
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.