Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 23, 1917
Died
Oct 21, 1999
Place of Birth
Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico
Credits
48 titles
Esther Fernández
Biography
From 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
Los años de Greta
Every Child a Cross to Bear
Lupita
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Cruz
Encrucijada
Tu vida entre mis manos
Laura Ocampo
La calle de los amores
Reportaje
Nurse
El lunar de la familia
Genio y figura
El billetero
Víctimas del divorcio
Sangre en el barrio
Doña Perfecta
Rosario
Flor de sangre
Pancho Villa Returns
Teresa Mota
Surcos de sangre
Isabel
Hipólito, el de Santa
Pancho Villa vuelve
Cuatro vidas
Prisión de sueños
Rosa
La santa del barrio
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
Claudia
Las mañanitas
In the Shadow of the Bridge
Rosaura
La carne manda
De pecado en pecado
Extraña cita
María Eugenia
Mujer
Two Years Before the Mast
Maria Dominguez
The Last Adventure
Graciela Hernández
Cantaclaro
Rosangela / Angela Rosa
Esperanza
Flor de durazno
Rina
La Fuga
Maria Ines Flores
Santa
Santa
Fashion Horizons
The Underdogs
Camila
Una luz en mi camino
Invitada a kermesse
Hombres del mar
Marina
Tierra brava
Ojos tapatios
Lucha
La Adelita
Mi candidato
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Cruz
The Macabre Trunk
Alicia Monroy
Beyond Death
Rol menor (uncredited)
The Dressel Family
Empleada oficina (uncredited)
The Woman of the Port
Mujer de cabaret