Columba DomÃnguez Adalid (March 4, 1929 – August 13, 2014) was a Mexican film actress. Considered a crucial figure in theGolden Age of Mexican cinema. Considered one of the muses of the film director Emilio Fernández, who, moreover, was romantically linked for several years. She is remembered particularly for her performance in the film Pueblerina (1949), considered one of the jewels of the Mexican Cinema.
Columba DomÃnguez Adalid born on March 4, 1929 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, reaching very young with her family to the Mexico City. When she went to a party with one of her sisters, was discovered by the Mexican film director Emilio Fernández, who was amazed by her beauty with very marked Mexican features and gives you entry to a movie with little roles in films such as La perla (1945) and RÃo Escondido (1947). In 1948, Fernandez give her the antagonistic role in the film Maclovia (1948), with MarÃa Félix. Her performance is praised by critics and thanks to this film, Fernández entrusted with the leading role that would become her best film: Pueblerina (1948). Thanks to this movie Columba rises the stardom rapidly and becomes known worldwide to be presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In that same year she participated in La Malquerida, with Dolores del RÃo and Pedro Armendáriz. Preceded by the success of Pueblerina, Columba was contracted in Italy to participate in the film L’Edera (1950).[1] The same year, she filming Un dÃa de vida, which went unnoticed in Mexico, but became a huge success in the former Yugoslavia, released in 1952. Encased in native roles, Columba separates professionally Fernandez in 1952, which allowed them to become one first figure and work under the orders of other filmmakers, such as Luis Bunuel (with whom she worked in El rÃo y la muerte (1955)), Fernando Méndez (director of the cult film Ladrón de cadáveres (1957), considered one of the best Mexican horror films) and Ismael Rodriguez (who took her to star in two masterpieces: Los Hermanos de Hierro (1961) and Ãnimas Trujano (1962), with the Japanese actorToshiro Mifune), among others. In 1962 she participated in El tejedor de milagros, a film that represented Latin America in the IX Berlin Film Festival. Columba also made the first official nude in the Mexican Cinema in the film La virtud desnuda. (1956). In the television, DomÃnguez participed in some telenovelas like La tormenta (1967) and El carruaje (1972). Her last appearance in the television was in Aprendiendo a amar(1979). After her retirement in 1987, Columba was devoted to dance, humanistic art, painting (coming to exhibit in Europe) and piano. In 2008, after more than 20 years of retirement from cinema, the Mexican director Roberto Fiesco, returned her to the cinema with the short film Paloma. That same year, Dominguez was honored by the International Film Festival de la Frontera, in Ciudad Juarez, in which some of the most representative titles in which he participated were projected.[2] In 2010, DomÃnguez made a special appearances in the films La cebra and Borrar la memoria.[3] In 2012, she participates in the film El último trago. In May 2013, Columba DomÃnguez was honored with the Golden Ariel Award for her contributions to the Mexican film industry.
Columba DomÃnguez Biography / Wiki
Name | Columba DomÃnguez |
Also Know | Columba DomÃnguez Alarid, Колумба Ð”Ð¾Ð¼Ð¸Ð½Ð³ÐµÑ |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico |
Date of Birth | 1929-03-04 |
Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
Deathday | 2014-08-13 |
Columba DomÃnguez Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Tragic cabaret | 1957-11-27 | Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder. Meanwhile, the tough broad who owns the bar f… | |
The River and Death | Mercedes | 1954-08-22 | A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generatio… |
Pueblerina | Paloma | 1949-07-06 | Aurelio RodrÃguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers G… |
Llanto por Juan Indio | 1965-01-01 | The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to death…. | |
La virtud desnuda | 1957-05-05 | 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…. | |
One Day of Life | Belén Martà | 1950-11-23 | A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while th… |
Ramona | Ramona | 2014-10-22 | Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind…. |
La fuerza de los humildes | 1955-09-22 | Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian…. | |
Unfaithful Wives | 1956-11-01 | A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure…. | |
Paloma | Paloma | 2008-03-11 | Román has decided to leave his native town, but first he must say goodbye to Paloma…. |
The Important Man | Juana | 1961-11-03 | Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his vil… |
Little Town | 1962-08-02 | Reactionary local “Big Daddy” tries to prevent a school being built in his district…. | |
El caudillo | 1957-07-10 | Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series…. | |
La bienamada | 1951-09-13 | Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n…… | |
Duelo indio | Xochicalpa | 1961-05-12 | A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them… while a messenger is … |
El tejedor de milagros | Remedios | 1962-12-27 | Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the c… |
Ambición sangrienta | Regina Villegas | 1968-08-29 | A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights…. |
Soy el hijo del gallero | 1978-08-23 | … | |
Five lives and one destiny | MarÃa Flores | 1957-03-28 | Jailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border…. |
Mujeres que trabajan | Isabel Villada | 1953-04-22 | Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support…. |
La muerte en el puente | 1961-06-24 | Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the l… | |
El mar y tu | Julia | 1952-03-07 | … |
El tiro de gracia | 1961-02-15 | … | |
Furia en el Edén | Meche | 1964-01-01 | … |
Mundo, demonio y carne | 1960-01-01 | … | |
La malquerida | Acacia | 1949-09-16 | Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda’s daughter Acacia hates her stepfath… |
Devotion | 1950-04-01 | In Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi family is going through difficult times and is threat… | |
My Son, the Hero | The Widow | 1961-10-05 | Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and MartÃn, whose mother instills in them th… |
Cuando levanta la niebla | 1952-11-23 | One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family…. | |
La loba | Marcela de Fernandez | 1965-07-01 | A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf’s curse…. |
El hombre propone… | 1965-06-04 | Anthology film, four stories set in Guadalajara and environs…. | |
Una gallina muy ponedora | 1982-06-03 | … | |
La sombra de los hijos | 1964-05-04 | Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing…. | |
Marcelo y MarÃa | 1966-11-10 | Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can’t end well…… | |
Viva la parranda | 1960-08-04 | Three con-artists chase after the absconded girlfriend of one and butt heads with two female swindlers working the same marks…. | |
The Body Snatcher | LucÃa | 1957-01-01 | A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life whi… |
Pueblo, canto y esperanza | 1956-05-17 | Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia…. | |
Maclovia | Sara | 1948-09-30 | On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the pover… |
The Pearl | (uncredited) | 1947-01-01 | A poor Mexican diver discovers a valuable pearl in the ocean, but it brings his family only trouble… |
Arriba Michoacán | 1987-07-09 | The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have all emigrated. Seceral of the younger women have bo… | |
Victimas de la pobreza | 1986-01-01 | Know what this is about?… | |
Adventure at the Center of the Earth | 1965-09-02 | After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene … | |
Borrar de la Memoria | Mamá de Roberto | 2010-10-14 | A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threaten… |
The Paper Man | Señorita Directora de casa hogar | 1963-10-05 | A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him int… |
RÃo Escondido | Merceditas | 1948-02-12 | Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondid… |
Historia de un abrigo de mink | 1955-04-28 | Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window…. | |
Wounded Dove | 1963-10-16 | The story of a native Mexican who wants to kill a man…. | |
Bread, Love and Andalucia | 1958-12-04 | Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he… | |
Duelo de pistoleros | 1966-03-31 | Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money…. | |
Lawless Youth | Sra. Silva | 1965-03-21 | Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father…. |
Reportaje | Petra | 1953-11-13 | Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year’s Eve…. |
Pepita Jimenez | Joven andaluza (uncredited) | 1946-02-22 | On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at… |
Credit: TMDB
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