Known for Acting
Marga López (21 June 1924 – 4 July 2005), born Catalina Margarita López Ramos, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Born in Argentina, she later acquired Mexican nationality.
Born
June 21, 1924
Died
July 3, 2005 (age 81)
Birthplace
Tucumán, Argentina
Filmography
82 films, 12 shows
Reclusorio
1997 · 1h 39m
country: Mexico
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
La carcel de Laredo
1985 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
Unhappy about his daughter's choice of boyfriends, a wealthy big-wheel arranges to have the young man arrested for cocaine trafficking and continues pulling strings after his arrested, tried and incarcerated.
México de mis amores
1979 · 1h 45m
country: Mexico
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
Doña Macabra
1972 · 1h 33m
country: Mexico
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. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Rosario
1971 · 1h 45m
country: Mexico
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
El profe
1971 · 1h 57m
country: Mexico
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
La agonía de ser madre
1970 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...
Perverse Doll
1969 · 1h 25m
country: Mexico
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
The Book of Stone
1969 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
El día de las madres
1969 · 1h 45m
country: Mexico
Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.
Crown of Tears
1968 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · 1h 28m
country: Mexico
A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
Los Perversos
1967 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Time to Die
1966 · 1h 30m
country: Mexico
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
¿Qué haremos con papá?
1966 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
The Mocking Ghosts
1965 · 1h 25m
country: Mexico
Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.
El pecador
1965 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters.
Lawless Youth
1965 · 1h 30m
country: Mexico
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
Diablos en el cielo
1965 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Buddy movie about aviators.
El amor no es pecado (El cielo de los pobres)
1965 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
After her child dies in an accident, a woman's marriage collapses and she goes into a convent.
La sombra de los hijos
1964 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
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.
Cuando acaba la noche
1964 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket
1963 · 2h 30m
country: Mexico
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Atrás de las nubes
1962 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
La edad de la inocencia
1962 · 1h 41m
country: Mexico
A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
Sueños de mujer
1961 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
based-on-novel
Navidades en junio
1960 · 1h 34m
country: Spain
Comedy by Tulio Demicheli about Christmas in June.
Mi madre es Culpable
1960
country: Unknown
"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
El hombre de la isla
1960 · 1h 43m
country: Spain
Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early days of their marriage are a constant disappointment, especially when it finds that her husband has no resemblance to the author of the letters. He lives embittered by an old story and is hated by all.
¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
1960 · 1h 39m
country: Spain
After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead.
Melocotón en almíbar
1960
country: Spain
Nazarín
1959 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Cuentan de una mujer
Cuentan de una mujer
1959 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.
Beneath the Sky of Mexico
Beneath the Sky of Mexico
1958 · 1h 29m
country: Unknown
Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
La torre de marfil
1958 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
Tu hijo debe nacer
1958 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
El diario de mi madre
1957 · 1h 30m
country: Mexico
Scheming secretary sabotages her boss's wedding plans and snags him for herself. She, him, his brother and the abandoned pregnant fiance all suffer as a result.
La ciudad de los niños
1957 · 1h 55m
country: Mexico
Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
Happy Year, My Love
1957 · 1h 27m
country: Mexico
Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
The Third Word
1956 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
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. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
Arm in Arm Down the Street
1956 · 1h 39m
country: Mexico
Unhappy young married couple argue and almost break up their marriage.
Una Movida Chueca
1956 · 1h 37m
country: Mexico
Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.
De carne somos
1955 · 1h 37m
country: Mexico
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
Love in Four Parts
1955 · 1h 32m
country: Mexico
Anthology film, four episodes.
Una mujer en la calle
1955 · 1h 30m
country: Mexico
An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.
Después de la tormenta
1955 · 1h 35m
country: Mexico
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
La entrega
1954 · 1h 46m
country: Mexico
Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.
Orquídeas para mi esposa
1954
country: Mexico
A Doll's House
1954 · 1h 29m
country: Mexico
Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Mexican version of " A Doll's House." A spendthrift wife hides from her banker husband that she is in debt to a dishonorable employee her husband has fired.
Eugenia Grandet
1953 · 1h 46m
country: Mexico
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Un divorcio
1953 · 1h 45m
country: Mexico
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Mi adorada Clementina
1953 · 1h 20m
country: Mexico
A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.
La mentira
1952 · 1h 37m
country: Unknown
When Demetrio arrives at the mine to meet his brother Ricardo, he finds out that Ricardo has committed suicide for the love of a woman. He promises to avenge the death of his brother..
A Place Close to Heaven
1952 · 2h
country: Mexico
An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.
My Wife and the Other
1952 · 1h 50m
country: Mexico
A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair.
Far from Heaven
1952 · 1h 50m
country: Mexico
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
La mujer sin lagrimas
1951 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Melodrama about a girl brought up by a stepmother.
Girls in Uniform
1951 · 1h 23m
country: Mexico
Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.
Black Is My Color
1951 · 1h 38m
country: Mexico
Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
Arrabalera
1951 · 1h 33m
country: Mexico
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Una mujer sin destino
1950 · 1h 45m
country: Unknown
"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia.
Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
1950 · 1h 55m
country: Mexico
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
Arrabalera
1950 · 1h 23m
country: Argentina
Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...
La dama del alba
1950 · 1h 28m
country: Mexico
Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries. And meanwhile, there's a mysterious woman in black who shows up at the hacienda just before somebody dies.
Love Pays for Love
Love Pays for Love
1950 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Un milagro de amor
1949
country: Unknown
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
Callejera
1949 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
Arriba El Norte
1949 · 1h 15m
country: Unknown
Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella.
La Panchita
1949 · 1h 28m
country: Mexico
Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.
Midnight
1949 · 1h 33m
country: Mexico
A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.
Salon Mexico
1949 · 1h 31m
country: Mexico
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Mi esposa busca novio
1948 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
Dueña y señora
1948 · 1h 29m
country: Mexico
After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
El último chinaco
1948 · 1h 31m
country: Mexico
1880s-1890s rural adventure on horseback.
Cartas Marcadas
1948 · 1h 32m
country: Mexico
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Soledad
1947 · 1h 43m
country: Mexico
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. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Vuelven los García
1947 · 1h 53m
country: Mexico
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcías
1947 · 1h 48m
country: Mexico
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Con la música por dentro
1947
country: Mexico
Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich family.
Las colegialas
1946 · 1h 23m
country: Unknown
Girl goes to boarding school while her widowed father pursues a romance. His thing turns out badly, but she meets her future husband.
Mamá Inés
1946 · 1h 40m
country: Mexico
The Naughty Son
1945 · 1h 37m
country: Mexico
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.