Esther Fernández
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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).
Acting
Movie
The Woman of the Port
as Mujer de cabaret
1934
Movie
Reportaje
as Nurse
1953
Movie
Allá en el Rancho Grande
as Cruz
1936
Movie
Doña Perfecta
as Rosario
1951
Movie
Two Years Before the Mast
as Maria Dominguez
1946
Movie
The Macabre Trunk
as Alicia Monroy
1936
Movie
The Underdogs
as Camila
1940
Movie
Santa
as Santa
1943
Movie
Los años de Greta
1992
Movie
Flor de durazno
as Rina
1945
Movie
The Last Adventure
as Graciela Hernández
1946
Movie
Cantaclaro
as Rosangela / Angela Rosa
1946
Movie
Una luz en mi camino
as Invitada a kermesse
1939
Movie
El lunar de la familia
1953
Movie
La santa del barrio
1948
Movie
Mi candidato
1937
Movie
Cuatro vidas
1949
Movie
Víctimas del divorcio
1952
Movie
El billetero
1953
Movie
Las mañanitas
1948
Movie
Encrucijada
1956
Movie
Tierra brava
1938
Movie
La Adelita
1937
Movie
La carne manda
1948