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Mapy Cortés
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Maria del Pilar Cordero (March 1, 1910 – August 2, 1998), better known as Mapy Cortés, was a Puerto Rican actress who acted in many films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Cortés appeared in the U.S. State Department propaganda short film "Mexican Moods".
In 1942, Cortés made her only foray into Hollywood cinema, playing a singer in the RKO wartime musical comedy Seven Days' Leave. Her eponymous character is engaged to Victor Mature's soldier character before he falls in love with a socialite played by Lucille Ball. After filming Seven Days Leave, Mapy Cortés returned to Mexico City and played roles in contemporary romantic comedies and nostalgia musicals set during the Mexican Bell…
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Maria del Pilar Cordero (March 1, 1910 – August 2, 1998), better known as Mapy Cortés, was a Puerto Rican actress who acted in many films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Cortés appeared in the U.S. State Department propaganda short film "Mexican Moods". In 1942, Cortés made her only foray into Hollywood cinema, playing a singer in the RKO wartime musical comedy Seven Days' Leave. Her eponymous character is engaged to Victor Mature's soldier character before he falls in love with a socialite played by Lucille Ball. After filming Seven Days Leave, Mapy Cortés returned to Mexico City and played roles in contemporary romantic comedies and nostalgia musicals set during the Mexican Belle Époque. The 1945 Mapy Cortés vehicle La pícara Susana / Mischievous Susana[5] marked the directorial debut of her husband Fernando. After Fernando died, Mapy returned to Puerto Rico and led a relatively quiet life. In 1998 she died at her home of a heart attack. She was buried at the Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
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No Poster
Reflejo de un deseo
Los tres pecados
Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
No Poster
Mr. Dólar
as Perla
Los expatriados
as Perla
Dormitorio para señoritas
Recién casados... no molestar
Venezuela también canta
Las tandas del principal
as Lucero Reyes / Rosario Aldama
Al marido hay que seguirlo
Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9
El sexo fuerte
El amor las vuelve locas
La pícara Susana
as Susana Martínez Rico
Un beso en la noche
La hija del regimiento
El globo de Cantolla
The Pharaoh's Court
as Lota
La Guerra de los Pasteles
Internado para señoritas
Seven Days' Leave
as Mapy (as Mapy Cortes)
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
as Rosa / Violeta
Papá se desenreda
El conde de Montecristo
as Haydée
Las cinco noches de Adán
as Lola
Mexican Moods
as Self
Cinco minutos de amor
as Lulú
The Unknown Policeman
as La criollita
Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
as Inés
La liga de las canciones
No Poster
Ahora seremos felices
as Alma
Guard! Alert!
as Vedette