Maruja Grifell
Popularity:0.12
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1907-02-06
Place of Birth:Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
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Also Known As:María Martínez Grifell

The Abandoned (1945)
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an...

The Stone Crucifix (1956)
A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has...

Una mujer decente (1950)
Attracted by Armando, Rosa, comes to him in love. Armando travels to Paris and his return contract an advantageous marriage to Margaret. Rosa gets...

The Innocent (1956)
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house....

Todo un caballero (1947)
An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin...

El grito de la carne (1951)
Mexican feature film

Aquella Rosita Alvírez (1965)
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.

Aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho (1943)
Las aventuras de Cucuruchito y Pinocho was the second color feature film and the first fantasy film for children made in Mexico.

From Can-Can to Mambo (1951)
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.

El casto Susano (1954)
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.

Flor de caña (1948)
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

¡Acá las Tortas! (1951)
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.

La visita que no tocó el timbre (1954)
Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.

Ladies Club (1956)
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.

Pancho López (1957)
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes...

El gallo giro (1948)
Mom and Pop want him to settle down , but the youngun's convinced he could be a big star singing rancheras; he convinces his folks to give him six...

Rogaciano el huapanguero (1957)
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.

Perdida (1950)
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

Si usted no puede, yo sí (1951)
Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is...

Una aventura en la noche (1948)
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.

A Family Like Many Others (1949)
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

La monja alférez (1944)
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being...

Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Músico, poeta y loco (1948)
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will....

¡A volar, joven! (1947)
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend,...

The Great Madcap (1949)
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...

Camelia (1954)
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form...

Another Dawn (1943)
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a...

Bugambilia (1945)
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results....

The Other (1946)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

Salon Mexico (1949)
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but...

Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro...

Cuidado con el amor (1954)
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...

Me traes de un ala (1953)
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they...

Aventurera (1950)
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city....

Cantaclaro (1946)
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.

El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte (1966)
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings...

La vida en broma (1950)
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.

Adulterio (1945)
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is...

¿Por qué ya no me quieres? (1954)
Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer...

Good Love (1957)
Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

No te ofendas, Beatriz (1953)
Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them.

Felipe de Jesús (1949)
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

Mujeres que trabajan (1953)
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.

..Y mañana serán mujeres (1955)
Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.

Reportaje (1953)
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Inmaculada (1950)
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire...

Acapulco (1952)
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.

Laura's Sin (1949)
Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.

Every Man’s Woman (1946)
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his...

In the Flesh (1951)
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.