Mapy cortes biography samples

Mapy and her husband Fernando returned to the island and presented an idea for a comedy show to Ángel Ramos, owner of El Mundo Enterprises. Remezcla. After an eight-year absence from films, Mapy Cortés co-starred in the comedy Dormitorio para señoritas / Girls' Dormitory (1959), a loose remake of her 1943 hit Internado para señoritas / Girls' Dormitory (1943), starring Mapita and directed by Fernando.

However, Mapita quickly retired from showbiz after marrying the popular Chilean crooner Lucho Gatica and only briefly returned many years later, as part of the Mexican telenovela industry.

By the 1960s, Mapy Cortés was working mostly on the Mexico City stage, often starring in comedies by Spanish author Alfonso Paso. Cortes, who was also a comedian and a musicals actress, parlayed her acting career into a singing one, recording various albums while still active as an actress.

/ Oh, What Times, Don Simon! (Julio Bracho, 1941) and the Cantinflas comedy El gendarme desconocido / The Unknown Policeman (Miguel M. Delgado, 1941) - quickly turned Mapy Cortés into one of the most bankable leading ladies in Mexican cinema. In the 1940s, the US State Dept Made a Pro-Mexico Propaganda Film Starring Cantinflas.

After the company disbanded, the couple began performing in different teatro de revista companies, primarily in Barcelona. After the show came off the air in Puerto Rico, the couple returned to Mexico City, where they starred in a Mexican version of Mapy y Papi.

Her niece Mapita Cortés, Miss Puerto Rico 1957, lived with them in Mexico City and briefly joined the Mexican film industry in the late 1950s.

She was buried at the Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery in Carolina, Puerto Rico.^[5]

Filmography

• Dos mujeres y un don Juan / Two Women and a don Juan (1933, Spain)
• El paraíso recobrado / The Recovered Paradise (1935, Spain)
• No me mates / Don't Kill Me (1935, Spain)
• El gato montés / The Wildcat (1936, Spain)
• ¡Centinela, alerta!

  prpop.org. By that time Cortés had a nephew, Paquito Cordero, who would become a famed actor and producer in Puerto Rico.

  After the start of the Spanish Civil War, Mapy and Fernando Cortés went to Marseilles before making their way down to Argentina. They made their stage debut as part of the Cantinflas revue and soon joined the growing Mexican film industry, which lacked established female stars.

  In 1932 Mapy traveled to New York City and married childhood friend Fernando "Papi" Cortés. Mapy Cortés made her film debut as one of the two female leads in the comedy Dos Mujeres y un Don Juan (Two Women and a Don Juan, 1933). Her film debut was in a movie named Dos Mujeres y un Don Juan (Two Women and a Womanizer).

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