Fanny Schiller

Actress

August 3, 1901 (70 years)

† September 26, 1971

Mexico City, Mexico

Biography

Fanny Schiller Hernández (1897–1971) was an award-winning Mexican character actress, television star and also acted in operettas and musicals in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She won two best supporting actress awards from the Ariels and was nominated for two additional films. She was a social activist, creating the Actor's Union and inspiring the creation of “Rosa Mexicano”. She was accomplished at dubbing and was the voice of many animated characters as well as the official voice of severa…

Filmography

7.0

Cuidado con el amor

Isabel

Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.

5.6

Locura pasional

Doña Jacinta

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.

6.0

The Cockfighter

In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.

5.2

The Black Scorpion

Florentina

Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.

7.1

Rubí

Nana

This is the story of Rubí, a young, selfish and hypocritical woman who, through ambition and deception, ruins the lives of those around her and her own.

8.0

María Isabel

Manuela

A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity

6.5

La infame

Victoria

For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.

4.2

Sombrero

Doña Fela

Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.

5.1

Sor Ye-yé

Madre de Juan

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

5.2

Love Has Many Faces

Maria

A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.

5.6

Las engañadas

Doña Carlota

Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.

6.1

No te engañes corazón

Refugio (uncredited)

No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.

6.6

Salon Mexico

Señorita prefecta

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.

4.7

Savage Sunday

Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.

5.9

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

Laria Morales

In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

6.2

Fruto prohibido

Señorita directora

A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.

6.4

Canaima

Gallineta

Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him.

6.7

Maternidad imposible

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...

6.0

The Naked Woman

Violeta Bello

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.

4.5

A Woman's Devotion

Señora Reidl

An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.