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Niní Marshall

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Niní Marshall, born Marina Esther Traveso, was an Argentine actress, screenwriter and comedian. She is well known for creating two emblematic satirical characters, Cándida and Catita, two archetypes of 20th century European immigration, with whom she participated in a large part of her films.

31-05-1903

Birthday

Gemini

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

38

Total Films

Niní Marshall 'Catita', Catita, Nini Marshall, Marina Esther Traveso

Also known as (female)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

38 Works

producer

0 Works

director

4 Works

writer

3 Works

other

1 Works

La película de Niní

La película de Niní

A portrait of the life of Niní Marshall, one of the greatest Argentine actresses and comedians. The film includes an enormous amount of excerpts from her films, interviews, documents, radio appearances and live shows.
0.0

Year:

2005

¡Qué linda es mi familia!

¡Qué linda es mi familia!

A rebel son decides not to follow his father steps to follow his dreams of fame and popularity.
5.0

Year:

1980

Vamos a soñar por el amor

Vamos a soñar por el amor

Two women are River Plate Club fans, while their husbands are Boca Juniors fans. The males go out on their own, causing some trouble, until they are discovered.
0.0

Year:

1971

The novel of a poor young man

The novel of a poor young man

A young man is forced for economic reasons to work as a ranch in the south of Argentina and there he tries to conquer a rich heiress.
0.0

Year:

1968

Escándalo en la familia

Escándalo en la familia

A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.
0.0

Year:

1967

Cleopatra era Cándida

Cleopatra era Cándida

Cándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..
0.0

Year:

1964

Catita is a lady

Catita is a lady

Catita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.
0.0

Year:

1956

Una gallega en La Habana

Una gallega en La Habana

Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
5.2

Year:

1955

Dios los cría

Dios los cría

Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
5.9

Year:

1953

Crazy Love

Crazy Love

Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.
5.0

Year:

1953

La alegre casada

La alegre casada

Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.
5.0

Year:

1952

Mi campeón

Mi campeón

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.
5.0

Year:

1952

Los enredos de una gallega

Los enredos de una gallega

Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.
5.5

Year:

1951

Una gallega baila mambo

Una gallega baila mambo

Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
5.5

Year:

1951

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari

After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
0.0

Year:

1950

Una gallega en México

Una gallega en México

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 Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
5.0

Year:

1949

Mujeres que bailan

Mujeres que bailan

A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.
0.0

Year:

1949

Porteña de corazón

Porteña de corazón

Young doctor falls in love with a nurse, but his parents insist he marry someone from his own economic class.
6.0

Year:

1948

Navidad de los pobres

Navidad de los pobres

A woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.
0.0

Year:

1947

Buenos Aires canta

Buenos Aires canta

0.0

Year:

1947

The Headless Woman

The Headless Woman

A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.
0.0

Year:

1947

Mosquita muerta

Mosquita muerta

In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.
0.0

Year:

1946

Santa Cándida

Santa Cándida

A woman of high society dies, leaving a large part of her assets to her domestic worker, who must deal with the envy and jealousy of her relatives.
10.0

Year:

1945

Madame Sans-Gêne

Madame Sans-Gêne

In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
0.0

Year:

1945

Carmen

Carmen

A woman faints during an opera performance and dreams that she is the protagonist and when she is about to die, she wakes up.
0.0

Year:

1943

Cándida, la mujer del año

Cándida, la mujer del año

After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.
0.0

Year:

1943

La mentirosa

La mentirosa

Dizzy secretary with a knack for embroidering the truth is identified as the heiress of a big mystery estate.
0.0

Year:

1942

Cándida millonaria

Cándida millonaria

Servant in a wealthy household and her employer unexpectedly get all romantical together. His daughter isn't so keen on the marriage when it happens.
6.7

Year:

1941

Orquesta de señoritas

Orquesta de señoritas

A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.
0.0

Year:

1941

Yo quiero ser bataclana

Yo quiero ser bataclana

Catita intercedes when a producer courts a chorus girl who is director's girlfriend.
6.2

Year:

1941

Luna de miel en Río

Luna de miel en Río

Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them to achieve their ends.
7.5

Year:

1940

Hay que educar a Niní

Hay que educar a Niní

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.
6.8

Year:

1940

Los celos de Cándida

Los celos de Cándida

Cándida and Jesús decide to purchase a Bed and Breakfast in Buenos Aires. But in the hostel already lived an Italian opera singer that provokes the jealousy of Cándida.
0.0

Year:

1940

Marriage in Buenos Aires

Marriage in Buenos Aires

When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up such love affairs.
6.8

Year:

1940

Cándida

Cándida

Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she mets a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
6.8

Year:

1939

Divorce in Montevideo

Divorce in Montevideo

In order to get rid of his exgirlfriend, a rich boy marries a manicurist, agreeing to divorce months later. The deal is carried out, but the young man sincerely falls in love with her and desperately seeks her out to remarry.
7.5

Year:

1939

Mujeres que trabajan

Mujeres que trabajan

A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.
8.2

Year:

1938