Known for Acting
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
A Mexican family drama.
Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
