Esther Fernández

Esther Fernández

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).

  • Title: Esther Fernández
  • Popularity: 1.764
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1917-08-23
  • Place of Birth: Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico
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Esther Fernández Movies

  • 1951
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    Doña Perfecta

    Doña Perfecta

    6.5 1951 HD

    Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

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  • 1948
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    De pecado en pecado

    De pecado en pecado

    5 1948 HD

    This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance, the film's Director Chano Urueta ( who became an acclaimed actor in his own right), actually co-wrote the script along with one of its principal actresses, namely Esther Fernandez, as well as adding in the literary abilities of a well-known movie-producer of the era named Luis Marique.

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  • 1948
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    A la sombra del puente

    A la sombra del puente

    5 1948 HD

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  • 1953
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    El lunar de la familia

    El lunar de la familia

    6 1953 HD

    Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Luisa, and his sister Esther. Unfortunately for the visitors, Luisa's goddaughter Rosita, is sitting near them in the same train car. She soon catches wind of the boys' wild tendencies, and makes a point of telling Luisa. Furious, the crotchety old woman decides to teach the bad boys a lesson by beating them senseless with her cane and forcing Luis to seek out a proper mate for Esther. Unfortunately, Esther has already fallen in love with Antonio - who could care less.

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  • 1936
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    Allá en el Rancho Grande

    Allá en el Rancho Grande

    5.3 1936 HD

    Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.

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  • 1943
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    Santa

    Santa

    5.6 1943 HD

    Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito

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  • 1946
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    Two Years Before the Mast

    Two Years Before the Mast

    6.2 1946 HD

    In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).

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  • 1950
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    Hipólito, el de Santa

    Hipólito, el de Santa

    5 1950 HD

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  • 1940
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    The Underdogs

    The Underdogs

    5.7 1940 HD

    During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.

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  • 1992
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    Los años de Greta

    Los años de Greta

    6.2 1992 HD

    Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.

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  • 1957
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    Each child, a cross

    Each child, a cross

    5 1957 HD

    Empty nest syndrome, #1388.

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  • 1948
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    La santa del barrio

    La santa del barrio

    5 1948 HD

    Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.

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  • 1947
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    Mujer

    Mujer

    5 1947 HD

    Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.

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  • 1938
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    Ojos tapatios

    Ojos tapatios

    5 1938 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 1944
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    La Fuga

    La Fuga

    5.3 1944 HD

    A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.

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  • 1936
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    The Macabre Trunk

    The Macabre Trunk

    5.4 1936 HD

    A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.

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  • 1945
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    Flor de durazno

    Flor de durazno

    5 1945 HD

    City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.

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  • 1937
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    Mi candidato

    Mi candidato

    5.5 1937 HD

    Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.

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  • 1956
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    Los hijos de Rancho Grande

    Los hijos de Rancho Grande

    5 1956 HD

    Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.

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  • 1940
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    Fashion Horizons

    Fashion Horizons

    3 1940 HD

    Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.

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  • 1950
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    Pancho Villa Returns

    Pancho Villa Returns

    5 1950 HD

    It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.

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  • 1949
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    Cuatro vidas

    Cuatro vidas

    5 1949 HD

    Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.

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  • 1950
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    Pancho Villa vuelve

    Pancho Villa vuelve

    5.3 1950 HD

    Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.

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  • 1952
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    Víctimas del divorcio

    Víctimas del divorcio

    5 1952 HD

    The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.

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  • 1953
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    El billetero

    El billetero

    5.3 1953 HD

    Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.

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  • 1948
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    Las mañanitas

    Las mañanitas

    5 1948 HD

    Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...

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  • 1948
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    Ahí vienen los Mendoza

    Ahí vienen los Mendoza

    5 1948 HD

    Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.

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  • 1956
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    Encrucijada

    Encrucijada

    5 1956 HD

    Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.

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  • 1934
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    The Woman of the Port

    The Woman of the Port

    5.9 1934 HD

    Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...

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  • 1946
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    Esperanza

    Esperanza

    5 1946 HD

    Mexican movie

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  • 1953
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    Genio y figura

    Genio y figura

    5.3 1953 HD

    When the pregnant Esther gets some bad news from her doctor, he advises her to visit a clinic in Mexico City, so she enlists husband Antonio to drive her there at once, along with her brother Luis. As soon as the men drop her off at the hospital, they hit a local nightclub and live it up, and as they are leaving the club in the company of a sexy dancer, they get thoroughly robbed: the criminals even steal the poor victims' clothes! Taken in to the police station and documented along the way, their photograph turns up in the paper the next day, which Esther of course sees. The men will have a lot to explain when they arrive at the clinic to pick up Esther.

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  • 1947
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    Extraña cita

    Extraña cita

    5 1947 HD

    Mexican movie

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  • 1938
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    Tierra brava

    Tierra brava

    5 1938 HD

    Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.

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  • 1950
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    Surcos de sangre

    Surcos de sangre

    1 1950 HD

    Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.

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  • 1938
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    Hombres del mar

    Hombres del mar

    5 1938 HD

    A 1938 film.

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  • 1946
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    The Last Adventure

    The Last Adventure

    6 1946 HD

    All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.

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  • 1937
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    La Adelita

    La Adelita

    5 1937 HD

    Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.

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  • 1946
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    Cantaclaro

    Cantaclaro

    6 1946 HD

    A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.

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  • 1948
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    La carne manda

    La carne manda

    5 1948 HD

    Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.

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  • 1954
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    La calle de los amores

    La calle de los amores

    5 1954 HD

    Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.

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  • 1952
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    Sangre en el barrio

    Sangre en el barrio

    5 1952 HD

    Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.

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  • 1949
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    Prisión de sueños

    Prisión de sueños

    5 1949 HD

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  • 1953
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    Reportaje

    Reportaje

    6.9 1953 HD

    Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

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  • 1955
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    Tu vida entre mis manos

    Tu vida entre mis manos

    5 1955 HD

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  • 1951
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    Flor de sangre

    Flor de sangre

    5 1951 HD

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