Delia Magaña
Birthday: 1903-02-02
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Biography: Delia Magaña was a Mexican film and television actress, singer, and dancer. Although she started as a silent film actress, Magaña became best known for her comic supporting roles in her later years. For her 60 years in the film industry, as well as for contributing to the American cinema, Magaña's name and hand print are preserved in the sidewalk outside Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.
Movies
Charros, gauchos y manolas
The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of...
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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him....
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The Seminarian
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in o...
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Get Off at the Next Corner!
Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route ...
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Bala Perdida
Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes ...
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Nosotros los pelados
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood....
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Satanic Pandemonium
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of he...
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The Naughty Son
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of b...
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La Guerra de los Pasteles
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s...
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El Gran Makakikus
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere....
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Those Green Eyes
Orphan girl under the protection of a benefactor begins to suspect that her mother had an affair wit...
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El tigre de Jalisco
A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit....
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Hay lugar para... dos
Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, B...
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Café de chinos
Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaura...
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El secreto de una mujer
Artist has affair with his favorite model. She reveals to him that his wife had a baby before they m...
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The Nights of Paloma
While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper clas...
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La sierra del terror
Federal police agent goes undercover to bust rural crime ring. Series western....
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Comedians of the League
The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieve...
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La pantera negra
Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series....
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Los amigos Maravilla en el mundo de la aventura
Little cowboy-fella, believed to be an orphan, helps his sheriff buddy to stamp out crime. Second of...
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Thus is Life
A British ex-Grenadier Guards officer moves to America, but struggles to find work. After he is empl...
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Isla para dos
Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discover...
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María Pistolas
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends....
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Tu camino y el mio
She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her ba...
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Don Herculano enamorado
Doddering old man makes a play for a married woman. Her husband gets practical joke-y in revenge....
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Picardía mexicana
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful ...
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La sobrina del señor cura
A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundlin...
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Los valientes no mueren
Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes......
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Guerra de sexos
A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife....
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Yo quiero ser hombre
In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milag...
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Pensión de artistas
Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a...
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Sandunga para tres
Three boys and three girls. First all the boys are fighting over one of the girls, then all the boys...
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Divorciadas
Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love l...
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La monja alférez
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of ...
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El valor de vivir
Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill balle...
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El Siete Machos
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Mar...
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The Prodigal Son
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rott...
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We the Poor
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City ne...
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El corrido de María Pistolas
Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble....
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You the Rich
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children....
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¡Esa mi raza!
A greedy man gets a job in politics thanks to his connections - and abandons one of his two children...
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El Quelite
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales...
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La feria de San Marcos
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, wed...
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Mi padrino
Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career....
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La máscara roja
Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into actio...
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El norteño
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin a...
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El nieto del Zorro
Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at...
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Cuando los hijos odian
Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with...
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Bésame mucho
A cluster of young performers will do just about anything to get their show produced....
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Vivillo desde chiquillo
A freeloader goes through a case of mistaken identity after a man tries to blackmail a married woman...
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Póker de reinas
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz a...
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Los apuros de mi ahijada
Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends an...
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El ruiseñor del barrio
Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today,...
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La niña popoff
Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend...
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Pueblo quieto
Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young l...
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Sor Ye-yé
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his frie...
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Terror in the Barrios
Traumatized child grows up to commit serial murders, targeting men and women who look like his mom a...
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Un corazón en el ruedo
Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining r...
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Vuelven los Argumedo
The Argumedo cousins have their clothes stolen while taking a shower, and they must find it at all c...
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Charro a la fuerza
Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance....
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Inmaculada
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sit...
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La golfa del barrio
Left grief-stricken when his bride dies unexpectedly on their wedding night, desperate newlywed Juan...
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Call Me Mike
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality wil...
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Las cenizas del diputado
A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his e...
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Historia de un abrigo de mink
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window....
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