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Carmen Sofía Álvarez Caicedo, better known as Sofía Álvarez (Bogotá, Colombia May 23, 1913 - Mexico City, Mexico April 30, 1985) was a Mexican film actress and singer of Colombian origin.
Born and raised in Colombia, she moved with her family to Mexico in 1928.
Her film debut was a small part, in the role of a prostitute in Santa (1930), the first talkie of Mexican cinema.
Popularly known as the lady of the long braids, she enjoyed popularity during the 1930s and 1940s as an actress and singer.
Subsequently she performed with Mario Moreno Cantinflasin the popular film Ahí está el detalle (1940).
In the 1940s, Álvarez is characterized by her interpretation of elegant ladies in films like El sombrero de tres picos and México de mis recuerdos (1943).
She performed with the popular Pedro Infante in three films: Si me han de matar mañana (1946), La barca de oro (1947) and Soy charro de Rancho Grande (1947).
One of her most celebrated films was La Reina de la Opereta (1945).
In 1950 she left the cinema to continue as a radio singer.
She returned to the cinema between 1957 and 1966, when she retired from the scenes.
Her last film was El Gángster (1965), with Arturo de Córdova.
She was noted for her excellent voice also that delicate features that printed her characters.
Olga discovers the unfinished diary of a notorious killer and becomes captivated by its dark secrets. As she delves deeper, she uncovers a mysterious connection between them, putting her life—and the lives of those around her—in grave danger.
Ana, a nine year old girl, arrives with her mother to an isolated beach with the intention to rest and to know the sea. There, she discovers that they are under a terrible threat, therefore she is obligated to look for help with her father in order to save her mother.
Two girls find love in the most unexpected places in modern-day Mexico City.
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
Doña Margarita, a lady of high society, wants for her son Pablo a wife of the same social level. He, however, loves the dressmaker’s daughter, whom he secretly marries thanks to the services of a priest friend. The couple must continue fighting against the matron’s crooked plans, until in an unfortunate accident, Pablo kills his wife’s stepfather and must flee to Europe. Years pass, and Pablo is unaware that he has a son. When he finally returns, thanks to the child, he reunites with the love of his life and definitively puts an end to the perverse plans of his mother.
Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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 Hipólito.