Prudencia Grifell Trailers
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Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico.
Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940.
Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles.
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18 January 1961
After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.
11 November 1943
1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
27 May 1955
Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder.
30 March 1961
Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
07 September 1949
A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.
15 November 1951
Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
24 May 1950
Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb.
22 April 1953
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
01 April 1958
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake.
01 January 1953
Mexican feature film
28 November 1947
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant.
03 July 1956
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts.
08 December 1960
A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
20 April 1961
Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.
09 April 1959
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
28 October 1954
Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
25 February 1950
Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries.
03 September 1952
A clumsy investigator must unravel a deadly mystery when a passenger is killed during a long-distance rail journey.
24 August 1956
Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
09 August 1951
Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
13 January 1966
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
07 October 1965
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
26 March 1959
Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
30 September 1957
The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.
01 January 1946
Mexican movie
06 April 1961
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
08 January 1958
Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep.
22 July 1955
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
01 January 1953
Mexican feature film
18 March 1955
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
04 June 1954
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
05 May 1959
The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
21 March 1952
The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.
15 August 1952
Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter.
20 August 1970
A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience.
28 April 1955
Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
18 March 1954
Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
07 July 1944
Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
22 April 1952
Orphan girl under the protection of a benefactor begins to suspect that her mother had an affair with him and that he's her father.
01 March 1956
Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
13 September 1950
The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
03 February 1955
An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
25 December 1952
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
15 September 1950
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
17 February 1955
Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
04 December 1958
Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where she discovers Virgin Guadalupe and the legend about her apparitions in that place.
01 November 1956
Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.
22 August 1960
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
09 July 1953
Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
21 January 1955
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers.
13 November 1958
A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
28 December 1949
Homeless girl placed in a court-appointed foster home under the care of a social worker.
30 November 1951
Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out.
01 December 1958
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
13 June 1946
A puritanical man travels to the capital to visit nightclubs and introduces himself as a bachelor, but to his surprise, he finds himself there with his wife.
25 February 1954
A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors.
22 January 1958
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
