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Esther Fernández
Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico
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 Mex…
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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).
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1992
Los años de Greta
Movie
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1957
Every Child a Cross to Bear
Movie Lupita
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1956
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Movie Cruz
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1956
Encrucijada
Movie
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1955
Tu vida entre mis manos
Movie Laura Ocampo
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1954
La calle de los amores
Movie
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1953
Reportaje
Movie Nurse
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1953
El lunar de la familia
Movie
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1953
Genio y figura
Movie
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1953
El billetero
Movie
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1952
Víctimas del divorcio
Movie
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1952
Sangre en el barrio
Movie
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1951
Doña Perfecta
Movie Rosario
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1951
Flor de sangre
Movie
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1950
Pancho Villa Returns
Movie Teresa Mota
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1950
Surcos de sangre
Movie Isabel
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1950
Hipólito, el de Santa
Movie
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1950
Pancho Villa vuelve
Movie
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1949
Cuatro vidas
Movie
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1949
Prisión de sueños
Movie Rosa
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1948
La santa del barrio
Movie
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1948
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Movie Claudia
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1948
Las mañanitas
Movie
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1948
In the Shadow of the Bridge
Movie Rosaura
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1948
La carne manda
Movie
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1948
De pecado en pecado
Movie
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1947
Extraña cita
Movie María Eugenia
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1947
Mujer
Movie
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1946
Two Years Before the Mast
Movie Maria Dominguez
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1946
The Last Adventure
Movie Graciela Hernández
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1946
Cantaclaro
Movie Rosangela / Angela Rosa
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1946
Esperanza
Movie
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1945
Flor de durazno
Movie Rina
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1944
La fuga
Movie Maria Ines Flores
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1943
Santa
Movie Santa
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1940
Fashion Horizons
Movie
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1940
The Underdogs
Movie Camila
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1939
Una luz en mi camino
Movie Invitada a kermesse
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1938
Hombres del mar
Movie Marina
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1938
Tierra brava
Movie
