Esther Fernández
ActingFrom Wikipedia María Esther Fernández González, better known as Esther Fernández (August 23, 1917 in Mascota, Jalisco Mexico – October 21, 1999 in Mexico City, Mexico), was a Mexican film and television actress. She was one of the first female major stars of the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema" in the 1930s and 1940s. Fernández began her career as an extra in the film La Mujer del Puerto (1934). Her beauty and charisma drew the attention of film director Fernando de Fuentes, who gave her the female lead role of Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), opposite Tito Guizar. The film is regarded as marking the start of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. During the rest of the 1930s, Fernández acted in hit movies including Amapola del Camino (1937), with Andrea Palma and Tito Guizar; Mi Candidato (1938), with Joaquín Pardavé and Pedro Armendàriz; and Los de Abajo, with Isabela Corona and Emilio Fernández. Her popularity caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which promoted her films in Latin America and invited her to work in Hollywood. In 1943 she starred in the second sound version of the classic Mexican film Santa, directed by Norman Foster, opposite Ricardo Montalban. In 1946 she acted in the Hollywood film Two Years Before the Mast, with Brian Donlevy and Alan Ladd. Her last appearance was in the film Reclusorio II (1997).
Known For
Filmography — Acting
The Woman of the Port
Mujer de cabaret
Two Years Before the Mast
Maria Dominguez
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Cruz
Doña Perfecta
Rosario
Santa
Santa
La Fuga
Maria Ines Flores
Reportaje
Nurse
Pancho Villa vuelve
The Underdogs
Camila
In the Shadow of the Bridge
De pecado en pecado
Tierra brava
Hombres del mar
Marina
La Adelita
Tu vida entre mis manos
Laura Ocampo
Genio y figura
Mi candidato
La santa del barrio
Every Child a Cross to Bear
Lupita
The Dressel Family
Empleada oficina (uncredited)
Fashion Horizons
The Macabre Trunk
Alicia Monroy
La carne manda
Mujer
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Claudia
La calle de los amores
Extraña cita
El billetero
Flor de durazno
Rina
Prisión de sueños
Pancho Villa Returns
Teresa Mota
Encrucijada
Las mañanitas
Hipólito, el de Santa
Cantaclaro
Rosangela / Angela Rosa
Ojos tapatios
Lucha
El lunar de la familia
Los años de Greta
Esperanza
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Cruz
The Last Adventure
Graciela Hernández
Sangre en el barrio
Flor de sangre
Víctimas del divorcio
Cuatro vidas
Surcos de sangre
Isabel