Esther Fernández
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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).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.764 |
Birthday | 1917-08-23 |
Place of Birth | Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico |
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1951
Doña Perfecta
6.5/9
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 townspeo...
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Doña Perfecta
1948
A la sombra del puente
5/2
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A la sombra del puente
1948
De pecado en pecado
5/2
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De pecado en pecado
1953
El lunar de la familia
6/4
Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunio...
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El lunar de la familia
1943
Santa
5.6/5
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...
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Santa
1936
Allá en el Rancho Grande
5.3/10
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 with...
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
1946
Two Years Before the Mast
6.2/8
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 ship...
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Two Years Before the Mast
1950
Hipólito, el de Santa
5/2
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Hipólito, el de Santa
1940
The Underdogs
5.7/6
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of th...
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The Underdogs
1992
Los años de Greta
6.2/5
Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
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Los años de Greta
1957
Each child, a cross
5/2
Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
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Each child, a cross
1948
La santa del barrio
5/4
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
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La santa del barrio
1947
Mujer
5/2
Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
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Mujer
1938
Ojos tapatios
5/2
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Ojos tapatios
1944
La Fuga
5.3/3
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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La Fuga
1936
The Macabre Trunk
5.4/9
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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The Macabre Trunk
1945
Flor de durazno
5/5
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
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Flor de durazno
1937
Mi candidato
5.5/4
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
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Mi candidato
1956
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
5/2
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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Los hijos de Rancho Grande
1940
Fashion Horizons
3/2
Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.
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Fashion Horizons
1950
Pancho Villa Returns
5/2
It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.
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Pancho Villa Returns
1949
Cuatro vidas
5/4
Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.
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Cuatro vidas
1950
Pancho Villa vuelve
5.3/3
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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Pancho Villa vuelve
1953
El billetero
5.3/3
Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.
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El billetero
1952
Víctimas del divorcio
5/4
The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
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Víctimas del divorcio
1948
Las mañanitas
5/4
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
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Las mañanitas
1948
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
5/2
Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
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Ahí vienen los Mendoza
1956
Encrucijada
5/4
Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
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Encrucijada
1934
The Woman of the Port
5.9/12
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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The Woman of the Port
1946
Esperanza
5/2
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Esperanza
1953
Genio y figura
5.3/3
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...
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Genio y figura
1947
Extraña cita
5/2
Mexican movie
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Extraña cita
1938
Tierra brava
5/4
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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Tierra brava
1950
Surcos de sangre
0/0
Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.
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Surcos de sangre
1938
Hombres del mar
5/2
A 1938 film.
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Hombres del mar
1946
The Last Adventure
6/5
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The Last Adventure
1937
La Adelita
5/4
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La Adelita
1946
Cantaclaro
6/5
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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Cantaclaro
1948
La carne manda
5/4
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...
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La carne manda
1954
La calle de los amores
5/4
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
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La calle de los amores
1952
Sangre en el barrio
5/4
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
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1949
Prisión de sueños
5/2
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Prisión de sueños
1953
Reportaje
6.9/11
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Reportaje
1951
Flor de sangre
5/2
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Flor de sangre
1955
Tu vida entre mis manos
5/2
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