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Carmen Montejo (born María Teresa Sánchez González; May 26, 1925 - February 25, 2013) was a Cuban-born actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico.
Real name: María Teresa Sánchez González Montejo started her career in radio as a child at the age of 6 in Cuba in a show titled Abuelita Cata transmitted on CMOX. While still in Cuba she was nicknamed "Muñeca" Sánchez in theatre and because of her golden curls as the Cuban Shirley Temple. She began acting studies in 1939 at Universidad de La Habana under Ludwing Shayovich. After concluding her collage studies her parents offered her a trip to the United States but instead she chose to go to Mexico for two months.
After arriving in Mexico she obtained a job in radio claiming to be a famous star in Cuba with a role in the radionovela El diario de Susana Galván. In 1943 she obtained a role in the film Resurrección directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and then Chano Ureta who changed her professional name to "Carmen Montejo" when she told him she lived across the Hotel Montejo.
In Venezuela she participated in one of the first films shot in that country titled Páramo (1954). In theater she obtained the role of Adela in the 1946 production of The House of Bernarda Alba of Federico García Lorca. She co-starred with Virginia Fábregas and was directed by Ricardo Mondragón at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She has also participated in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Trojans.
In television she has performed roles in many telenovelas as well as the sitcom Tres Generaciones with Angélica María and Sasha Sokol in the 1980s.
For her work in television, films and theatre, Montejo was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias.
Carmen Montejo died on February 25, 2013, in Mexico City. She was 87.
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10 November 1983
When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.
13 February 1964
Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off the water supply to the area's farmers, and the soul of a murder victim that manifests as a flying fireball.
17 January 1957
Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing.
10 May 1956
Doctor-husband-father tries to juggle home life and mistress.
24 March 1953
Mr. X is convicted of killing Mr. Y and serves a jail sentence. After being released, he discovers that Mr.
08 March 1979
Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss.
01 October 2000
Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind.
10 May 1973
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
10 February 1982
Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.
15 January 1947
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
30 September 1983
Horror tv movie from Mexico
17 May 2002
The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, USA and Spain), invited to Mexico City to be the jury of the Third Annual Latin American Women's Film Festival.
17 February 1944
An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.
10 June 1976
Mexican Revolution era: a guerilla faction kidnaps two members of a governing family to negotiate a ransom.
16 October 1946
A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
19 August 1943
A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.
02 February 1968
The story of an impossible love that a couple lives in secret because they are very young. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967.
01 July 1963
Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
25 December 1971
The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot.
12 August 1943
Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
05 September 1951
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
25 June 1969
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him.
30 September 1972
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist.
02 November 1972
Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society.
29 June 1955
Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
28 September 1961
A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.
03 September 1982
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel.
03 June 1976
The traumatic story of an old bourgueoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.
01 August 1951
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
21 January 1954
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
13 November 1953
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
15 September 1977
'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.
05 February 1953
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone.
10 June 1981
The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparals
23 March 1951
Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt.
26 November 1944
Love story and family-melodrama set during the Mexican War Of Independence, 1860s.
28 April 1955
Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
01 May 1953
Life changes for an Andean family when oil wealth and a fugitive arrive in town.
05 August 1949
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
18 October 2000
Mimí Derba is a documentary about one of the pioneers in acting and film production in México. In 1917, along with photographer Enrique Rosas, she founded one of the first film production companies: Azteca Films.
01 March 1956
Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
16 June 1978
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s.
21 March 1984
Juana, a peasant girl, is mistaken for her twin sister, Chana, whom she has never met and who is now a famous singer, and is kidnapped in her place by Chana's ex-husband.
21 April 1984
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man.
12 April 1969
Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo.
31 May 1972
Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate.
14 September 1974
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town.
09 March 1968
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them.
03 June 1955
After a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase.
26 December 1969
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
28 June 1985
A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
20 December 1951
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
13 March 1953
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends.
25 March 1948
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood.
04 October 1957
A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died.
02 March 1951
Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
