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Columba Domínguez Adalid (March 4, 1929 – August 13, 2014) was a Mexican film actress. Considered a crucial figure in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Considered one of the muses of the film director Emilio Fernández, who, moreover, was romantically linked for several years. She is remembered particularly for her performance in the film Pueblerina (1949), considered one of the jewels of the Mexican Cinema.
Columba Domínguez Adalid born on March 4, 1929 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, reaching very young with her family to the Mexico City. When she went to a party with one of her sisters, was discovered by the Mexican film director Emilio Fernández, who was amazed by her beauty with very marked Mexican features and gives you entry to a movie with little roles in films such as La perla (1945) and Río Escondido (1947). In 1948, Fernandez give her the antagonistic role in the film Maclovia (1948), with María Félix. Her performance is praised by critics and thanks to this film, Fernández entrusted with the leading role that would become her best film: Pueblerina (1948). Thanks to this movie Columba rises the stardom rapidly and becomes known worldwide to be presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In that same year she participated in La Malquerida, with Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. Preceded by the success of Pueblerina, Columba was contracted in Italy to participate in the film L'Edera (1950).[1] The same year, she filming Un día de vida, which went unnoticed in Mexico, but became a huge success in the former Yugoslavia, released in 1952. Encased in native roles, Columba separates professionally Fernandez in 1952, which allowed them to become one first figure and work under the orders of other filmmakers, such as Luis Bunuel (with whom she worked in El río y la muerte (1955)), Fernando Méndez (director of the cult film Ladrón de cadáveres (1957), considered one of the best Mexican horror films) and Ismael Rodriguez (who took her to star in two masterpieces: Los Hermanos de Hierro (1961) and Ánimas Trujano (1962), with the Japanese actorToshiro Mifune), among others. In 1962 she participated in El tejedor de milagros, a film that represented Latin America in the IX Berlin Film Festival. Columba also made the first official nude in the Mexican Cinema in the film La virtud desnuda. (1956). In the television, Domínguez participed in some telenovelas like La tormenta (1967) and El carruaje (1972). Her last appearance in the television was in Aprendiendo a amar(1979). After her retirement in 1987, Columba was devoted to dance, humanistic art, painting (coming to exhibit in Europe) and piano. In 2008, after more than 20 years of retirement from cinema, the Mexican director Roberto Fiesco, returned her to the cinema with the short film Paloma. That same year, Dominguez was honored by the International Film Festival de la Frontera, in Ciudad Juarez, in which some of the most representative titles in which he participated were projected.[2] In 2010, Domínguez made a special appearances in the films La cebra and Borrar la memoria.[3] In 2012, she participates in the film El último trago. In May 2013, Columba Domínguez was honored with the Golden Ariel Award for her contributions to the Mexican film industry.
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23 November 1950
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides.
28 March 1957
Jailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border.
11 March 2008
Román has decided to leave his native town, but first he must say goodbye to Paloma.
30 September 1948
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders.
29 November 1950
In Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi family is going through difficult times and is threatened with eviction.
22 April 1953
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
09 July 1987
The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated.
10 July 1957
Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back.
03 November 1961
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens.
03 June 1982
A beautiful woman discovers the rooster fighting world and in the process fall in love with a handsome boy.
27 November 1957
Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder.
14 October 2010
A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threatening conditions.
22 October 2014
Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.
10 November 1966
Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them.
22 September 1955
Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian.
04 August 1960
Three con-artists chase after the absconded girlfriend of one and butt heads with two female swindlers working the same marks.
13 November 1953
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
21 March 1965
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
01 November 1956
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
16 October 1963
Paloma is a young blonde indigenous woman who arrives in a coastal town and goes to the local cantina to murder Danilo Zeta in cold blood.
05 October 1961
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
22 August 1954
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village.
01 January 1965
The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death.
04 December 1958
Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.
13 July 1972
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
07 March 1952
A man long thought dead returns to his fishing village home to find the love he left married to the village’s top power broker, a man who control’s the fish production with an iron fist.
16 September 1949
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession.
12 September 1947
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion.
12 February 1948
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
29 August 1968
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
22 February 1946
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary.
23 November 1952
One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
26 September 1957
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer.
04 June 1965
Anthology film, four stories set in Guadalajara and environs.
06 July 1949
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and working his land.
28 April 1955
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
02 August 1962
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
05 October 1963
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
02 September 1965
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.
10 April 2015
Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the limitations of their advanced age.
17 May 1956
Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
27 December 1962
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
01 July 1965
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
31 March 1966
Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.
13 September 1951
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n.
04 May 1957
A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agree to the price she sets on it.
24 June 1961
Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the lands belonging to local indigenous tribe and in getting that territory restored to tribal governance.
04 May 1964
Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.
12 May 1961
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them.
