Manolita Saval

Actress

February 5, 1914 (87 years)

† August 23, 2001

Paris, France

Biography

Manolita Saval (5 February 1914 Paris, France – 23 August 2001 Mexico City, Mexico) was a Spanish actress and singer. She studied music and drama in Spain, and began her career performing the opera Marina in Valencia. As a lyric interpreter, she toured Latin America, eventually settling in Mexico in 1938. Over the course of her career, she appeared in over 30 films and television programs, as well as in plays, operettas, and operas. She was born in Paris of Spanish parents and named 'Juana Ma…

Filmography

9.0

Madres egoístas

Rosario Urióstegui

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7.0

Vivir enamorada

Merceditas

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7.0

The Minister and Me

Estrellita

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

5.4

Arrabalera

Ana María

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.

5.6

Los miserables

Cosetta Ponchelevan

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings.

6.3

Esta noche no

Mama Sara

Mexican feature film

6.6

El que tenga un amor

Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.

5.8

La Guerra de los Pasteles

Tía de Suzette

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6.6

El baisano Jalil

Martha

Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.

5.2

Del suelo no paso

Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.

6.0

Pobre diablo

Maruja

An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.

6.8

El capitán Malacara

Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.

6.8

Fantasía ranchera

Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.

6.7

Adiós juventud

Juanita

Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.

5.8

El Capitan Aventurero

Carmina

Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.

6.7

Dos Criados Malcriados

Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.

5.4

Santa

A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.

6.4

María Eugenia

Raquel

Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.

5.7

La culpable

Margarita

Mexican movie

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