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Joaquín Pardavé

Joaquín Pardavé

Joaquín Pardavé Arce (September 30, 1900 – July 20, 1955) was a Mexican film actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. I was best known for starring and directing various comedy films during the 1940s. In some of them, Pardavé paired with one of Mexico's most famous actresses, Sara García, the films which they starred are El baisano Jalil, The barchante Neguib, El ropavejero, and La familia Pérez. Both actors had on-screen chemistry together, and are noted for playing a wide variety of comic characters from Lebanese foreigners to middle-class Mexicans.

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Movies Starring Joaquín Pardavé (67)

México de mis amores (1979)

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period. ...

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La virtud desnuda (1957)

A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agree to the price she sets on it. Twist ending. ...

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Las medias de seda (1956)

Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then... ...

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People, Song and Hope (1956)

Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia. ...

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Ladies Club (1956)

Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader. ...

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A los cuatro vientos (1955)

Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana. ...

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El hombre inquieto (1954)

Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son. ...

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El mil amores (1954)

Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. ...

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La gitana blanca (1954)

Nina, a gypsy girl, promised to the future leader of her tribe, falls in love with Roberto, a depressed violinist. ...

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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. ...

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Reportaje (1953)

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve. ...

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Mi adorada Clementina (1953)

A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier. ...

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Doña Mariquita de mi corazón (1953)

Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz. ...

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Pompeyo el conquistador (1953)

Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly. ...

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The Guys from Penjamo (1953)

When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies. ...

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Mi campeón (1952)

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband. ...

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From Can-Can to Mambo (1951)

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun. ...

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Gendarme de punto (1951)

Don Timoteo Rodriguez is an old friendly but scared and outdated, whose office is the pedestal: According to his modest way of life, things are more important to the traditional and the past. Yet., Timothy has a son who's not at all like his name is Luis, ...

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Una gallega baila mambo (1951)

Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband. ...

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Orange Blossoms for your Wedding (1950)

During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used. ...

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Primero soy Mexicano (1950)

USA-educated doctor goes home for the first time in years. Culture shock. ...

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Una gallega en México (1949)

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Ro ...

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Two Pesos Left (1949)

Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight. ...

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Arriba El Norte (1949)

Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella. ...

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Perez Family (1949)

Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him ...

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Ojos de juventud (1948)

A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets! ...

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Los viejos somos así (1948)

Two card-sharps fall for the same woman. ...

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La niña de mis ojos (1947)

Classic movie of Mexican cinema. ...

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El ropavejero (1947)

Cirilo, a used clothes dealer, falls in love with Maria, who works as a cook in a house. One day they find by chance in the basement something that will change their lives. ...

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El barchante Neguib (1946)

Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942). ...

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Los nietos de Don Venancio (1946)

A puritanical man travels to the capital to visit nightclubs and introduces himself as a bachelor, but to his surprise, he finds himself there with his wife. ...

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La reina de la opereta (1946)

Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again. ...

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Like All Mothers (1945)

The story of a single mother and her children, and the lives that cross their paths. ...

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El Gran Makakikus (1944)

Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere. ...

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Los Hijos De Don Venancio (1944)

Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions. ...

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El sombrero de tres picos (1944)

The corregidor, or magistrate, of a small Spanish village tries to seduce the miller's wife, with rather humorous results. ...

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México de mis recuerdos (1944)

After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don ...

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Adiós juventud (1943)

Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905. ...

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Cinco fueron escogidos (1943)

Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate v ...

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El baisano Jalil (1942)

Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Seli ...

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Yo bailé con Don Porfirio (1942)

Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music m ...

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Esa mujer es la mía (1942)

Two pen-pals decide to get married, but the groom cooks up a scheme to test his fiancee's moral fibr before they tie the knt. ...

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Dark Angel (1942)

Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him. ...

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El que tenga un amor (1942)

Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown. ...

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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha (1942)

The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor's daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family. ...

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¿Quién te quiere a tí? (1942)

Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them. ...

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Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! (1941)

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy. ...

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When the Children are Gone (1941)

Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The on ...

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El jefe máximo (1940)

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You’re Missing the Point (1940)

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich ma ...

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¡Que viene mi marido! (1940)

Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status. ...

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Viviré otra vez (1940)

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him. ...

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Al son de la marimba (1940)

A broken high society man tries to keep his family expensive lifestyle by tricking a rich man from out of the town to marry his well intended daughter. ...

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In the Times of Don Porfirio (1940)

In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family. ...

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En un burro tres baturros (1939)

Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners. ...

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Caballo a caballo (1939)

Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves. ...

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Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)

Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justini ...

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The Girls Aunt (1938)

Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt. ...

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Tierra brava (1938)

Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day. ...

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La zandunga (1938)

It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. ...

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Canción del alma (1938)

Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later... ...

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Mi candidato (1937)

Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry. ...

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Jalisco nunca pierde (1937)

Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda. ...

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Movies Made By Joaquín Pardavé (30)

Secreto profesional (1955)

A film that tells how a woman who suffered blackmail her entire life kills a man. Her lawyer falls in love with her and does everything possible to uncover the truth, even though it is a professional secret that will make him lose everything. ...

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Dios nos manda vivir (1954)

Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama: young widow suffers everything life can throw at her. ...

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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. ...

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Magdalena (1954)

Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experien ...

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Doña Mariquita de mi corazón (1953)

Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz. ...

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Mi campeón (1952)

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband. ...

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Pasionaria (1952)

Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab. ...

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Gendarme de punto (1951)

Don Timoteo Rodriguez is an old friendly but scared and outdated, whose office is the pedestal: According to his modest way of life, things are more important to the traditional and the past. Yet., Timothy has a son who's not at all like his name is Luis, ...

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Love for Sale (1951)

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again. ...

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Una gallega baila mambo (1951)

Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband. ...

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Arrabalera (1951)

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities. ...

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Primero soy Mexicano (1950)

USA-educated doctor goes home for the first time in years. Culture shock. ...

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Sangre torera (1950)

Antonio studies law at college, but he feels unhappy because his true hobby is bullfighting, but his parents are against it. Antonio asks his godfather Don Luis, who owns a ranch, for help to convince his father, but everything is useless. Antonio argues w ...

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Una gallega en México (1949)

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Ro ...

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Two Pesos Left (1949)

Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight. ...

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Arriba El Norte (1949)

Husband and wife are reunited after a twenty-year misunderstanding; their grown daughter has her eye on a fella. ...

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Perez Family (1949)

Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him ...

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Ojos de juventud (1948)

A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets! ...

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Los viejos somos así (1948)

Two card-sharps fall for the same woman. ...

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La barca de oro (1947)

Ranch-heiress chooses a husband. ...

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El barchante Neguib (1946)

Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942). ...

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Los nietos de Don Venancio (1946)

A puritanical man travels to the capital to visit nightclubs and introduces himself as a bachelor, but to his surprise, he finds himself there with his wife. ...

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La reina de la opereta (1946)

Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again. ...

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Los Hijos De Don Venancio (1944)

Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions. ...

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Adiós juventud (1943)

Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905. ...

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El baisano Jalil (1942)

Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Seli ...

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