Gloria Mestre

Acting

Gloria Mestre

Born July 28, 1928 · Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

Died December 9, 2012 · aged 84

Gloria Mestre Rodríguez (July 28, 1928 – December 9, 2012) was a Mexican dancer, choreographer, and actress in film, stage, and television. She was considered one of the greatest Mexican ballet dancers in the early 1940s.

Known For

Watch Out for LoveWatch Out for Love · 1954
Watch Out for Love
★ 7.11954
MovieComedyDrama
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.
SorceressSorceress · 1982
Sorceress
★ 4.41982
MovieActionAdventure
Twin warrior sisters, raised in the wilderness and trained for battle, must survive a bizarre world of monsters, cultists, zombies, and barbarians as they prepare for a final showdown with the father who once tried to destroy them.
Los DestrampadosLos Destrampados · 1971
Los Destrampados
★ 5.71971
Movie
The BruteThe Brute · 1953
The Brute
★ 6.91953
MovieDramaCrime
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! · 1951
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
★ 6.31951
MovieComedyDrama
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Victims of SinVictims of Sin · 1951
Victims of Sin
★ 7.01951
MovieDramaCrime
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Foxhole in CairoFoxhole in Cairo · 1960
Foxhole in Cairo
★ 6.61960
MovieDramaWar
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Island of Lost SoulsIsland of Lost Souls · 1974
Island of Lost Souls
★ 6.11974
MovieCrime
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.

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Dios los críaDios los cría · 1953
Dios los cría
★ 6.01953
MovieComedy
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...

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