Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1917-08-23
Day of Death
1999-10-21
Place of Birth
Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico
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).
Filmography (48)
Los años de Greta
1992
Every Child a Cross to Bear
1957
Encrucijada
1956
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
1956Tu vida entre mis manos
1955
La calle de los amores
1954
Reportaje
1953
El lunar de la familia
1953
Genio y figura
1953
El billetero
1953
Víctimas del divorcio
1952
Sangre en el barrio
1952
Doña Perfecta
1951
Flor de sangre
1951
