Sara GarcÃa (8 September 1895 – 21 November 1980) was a Mexican actress who made her biggest mark during the “Golden Age of Mexican cinema”. During the 1940s and 1950s, she often played the part of a no-nonsense but lovable grandmother in numerous Mexican films. In later years, she played parts in Mexican telenovelas. Known as “Mexican Cinema’s Grandmother”, GarcÃa’s image is displayed on the label of Mexico’s traditional Abuelitachocolate, a company now owned by Nestlé.
Sara GarcÃa Biography / Wiki
| Name | Sara GarcÃa |
| Also Know | Sara GarcÃa Hidalgo, La Abuelita, Doña Sara Garcia, Sarah Garcia, Sara Garcia, Doña Sara GarcÃa, Sara |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico |
| Date of Birth | 1895-09-08 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
| Deathday | 1980-11-21 |
Sara GarcÃa Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| El Papelerito | Dominga | 1951-10-25 | … |
| The Three Garcia | Grandma Luisa GarcÃa | 1947-08-15 | Ruled by a tough grandma, the GarcÃas are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma … |
| Vuelven los GarcÃa | Grandma Luisa GarcÃa | 1947-08-15 | Ruled by a tough grandma, the GarcÃas are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma … |
| La miel se fue de la luna | Doña Martirio | 1952-05-02 | Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats Ãfrica, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. W… |
| Why Was I Born Woman? | Doña Rosario | 1970-08-20 | A family gathers to celebrate Mother’s Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will… |
| La trepadora | 1944-09-21 | Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story…. | |
| The Secret of the Spinster | Marta | 1945-05-10 | A homeless orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy man against his wife wishes. When the man dies, the girl endures endless humiliations under the wife’s … |
| Dueña y señora | 1948-11-20 | After his wife dies, the master of the house can… maybe… acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?… | |
| Dos pesos dejada | 1949-09-07 | Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother’s boyfriend steps in to set matters straight…. | |
| Cakes Here! | Dolores | 1951-10-12 | College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds…. |
| La duquesa del Tepetate | 1951-07-21 | Romantic comedy…. | |
| No matarás | 1943-08-19 | A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter…. | |
| Por el mismo camino | Tia Justa | 1953-02-11 | On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker…. |
| The Vivanco Ladies | Hortensia Vivanco y de la Vega | 1959-04-09 | Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother’s daughter…. |
| La abuelita | 1942-05-09 | Granny rules the roost, but little sister’s a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned… Granny sees… | |
| Yo quiero ser hombre | 1950-03-14 | … | |
| Misericordia | 1953-03-13 | Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on beha… | |
| Mis hijos! | MarÃa | 1944-03-11 | An endless series of disasters separates a mother from her children. It takes her over twenty years to find her way back to the bosom of her family…. |
| El gran premio | Soledad Fuentes Lagos ‘Cholita’ | 1958-07-24 | Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate…. |
| The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies | Doña Hortensia Vivanco y de la Vega | 1961-01-18 | After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they’ve committed…. |
| La gallina clueca | Doña Teresa de Treviño | 1941-12-04 | Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family…. |
| Mi madrecita | Doña MarÃa (as Sarah Garcia) | 1940-05-08 | Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down…… |
| Regalo de reyes | 1942-03-05 | Class conflicts between two families; one’s upper-class but decaying, one’s industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas…. | |
| Caminito alegre | 1944-02-17 | An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks’ Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions…. | |
| Doña Clarines | 1951-02-07 | Aging wastrel wants to have his sister declared incompetent so he can take control of her estate…. | |
| Papá se desenreda | Petra | 1942-06-11 | Know what this is about?… |
| Pescadores de perlas | 1938-11-02 | … | |
| With my finger on the trigger | La abuela | 1958-10-08 | The Private detective Raúl MarÃn with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides i… |
| Tuya en cuerpo y alma | MarÃa Antonia | 1945-06-01 | … |
| Dos mexicanos en Sevilla | 1942-01-01 | Know what this is about?… | |
| El dinamitero | La Abuela | 1965-12-17 | … |
| Those Who Came Back | Marta Ortos | 1948-01-21 | A small disparate group of people are aboard a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires…. |
| Dicen que soy mujeriego | Doña Rosa | 1949-04-14 | Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women…. |
| Joselito vagabundo | Mrs. Guadalupe | 1966-05-19 | Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets… |
| El ropavejero | 1947-01-23 | 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 wi… | |
| El baisano Jalil | 1942-12-03 | Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughte… | |
| Los dinamiteros | Doña Pura | 1964-11-02 | Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collec… |
| El dÃa de las madres | 1969-04-17 | Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children…. | |
| El Verdugo De Sevilla | 1942-11-28 | Comedy set in Spanish boarding house…. | |
| Como yo te querÃa | 1945-09-26 | Romantic comedy/drama…. | |
| Los Cristeros | 1947-12-19 | When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church’s autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create confl… | |
| El malvado Carabel | 1962-04-26 | Frustrated salaryman responds to career setbacks by embarking on a life of crime…. | |
| Faith, Hope and Charity | Old woman (segment “Caridad”) | 1974-02-14 | Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy…. |
| When the Children are Gone | Doña Lupe Rosales | 1941-07-30 | 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, cause… |
| Perez Family | Natalia Vivanco de Pérez | 1949-05-04 | 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 lo… |
| Miente y serás feliz | Constancia | 1940-05-31 | A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles…… |
| Como gallos de pelea | 1977-03-16 | Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually war… | |
| Las chivas rayadas | Doña Pancha | 1964-04-02 | The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family…. |
| Los fenómenos del fútbol | 1964-09-10 | Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother’s a rising star in local soccer, one’s a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister’s an aspiring ranchera sing… | |
| La vida difÃcil de una mujer fácil | 1979-01-19 | Friends, co-workers and clients reminisce about a recently-deceased sex-worker…. | |
| El barchante Neguib | Sara | 1946-09-13 | 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 Jal… |
| No te engañes corazón | Doña Petro | 1937-05-19 | No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don’t Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the ca… |
| Las mujeres mandan | 1937-09-28 | Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer…. | |
| Mis abuelitas… no más! | 1961-03-30 | Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he’s their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!… | |
| Nobleza ranchera | 1977-08-04 | Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two daught… | |
| Dos cadetes | 1938-04-10 | Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood… but he wants to join the army instead. Naughty uncle from Paris help him get out from unde… | |
| México de mis amores | 1979-10-12 | Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period…. | |
| My Dear Captain | Pelancha | 1950-12-07 | … |
| Toros, amor y gloria | 1944-03-27 | Farmhand moves to the city to be with his mother. He falls in love with the daughter of the rich family for whom she works as housekeeper, and decides… | |
| Los leones del ring | Doña Refugio | 1974-05-23 | Young wrestler runs afoul of gambling-syndicate Mafiosi; his twin brother and two friends meet at his funeral and decide to avenge his murder (which t… |
| Yo quiero ser tonta | Doña Atilana | 1950-11-30 | Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not ap… |
| You’re Missing the Point | Clotilde Regalado | 1940-09-11 | 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 se… |
| El diablo no es tan diablo | 1949-10-26 | Gender-reversal comedy about husband and wife trading places…. | |
| Bello recuerdo | Dona Sara | 1961-10-16 | Back from vacation, Lucy, a school’s music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affec… |
| The White Horse | Doña Refugio | 1962-02-15 | Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is as… |
| El lunar de la familia | 1953-05-20 | Fernando Mendez’s 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunio… | |
| Los Fernández de Peralvillo | doña Conchita Fernández; doña Chita | 1954-09-14 | A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal…. |
| Perjura | 1938-11-11 | Musical romance set in 1880s Mexico…. | |
| En un burro tres baturros | 1939-11-11 | Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners…. | |
| No One Will Love You Like I Do | 1972-09-21 | A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God’s glorious plan…. | |
| The Third Word | Matilde | 1956-07-03 | The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doti… |
| Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra | Doña Refugio | 1974-07-25 | Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses…. |
| El buena suerte | 1961-02-16 | An acquaintance from Venezuela visits the owner of a Mexican ranch, causes upheavals in the love-life of the foreman…. | |
| Héroe a la fuerza | 1964-07-30 | Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up ‘o… | |
| Flor marchita | Paula la nana | 1969-07-03 | Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later…… |
| El hijo del pueblo | Vicenta Aurelia Fernandez; Chenta | 1974-02-28 | At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he’s fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon, … |
| ¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla! | Doña Severa | 1946-01-31 | Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin’ to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father’s. Also a horse-race…. |
| Entre monjas anda el Diablo | 1973-02-15 | A man called “The Devil†makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who’s about to enter the monastery…. | |
| Eterna agonÃa | Doña Cholita | 1949-06-22 | Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there’s nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral…. |
| La comadrita | Doña Chonita | 1978-09-27 | … |
| The Innocent | La abuela | 1972-11-02 | The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made… |
| El analfabeto | Doña Epifanita | 1961-09-07 | Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle’s fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no id… |
| The Innocent | Madre de Mané | 1956-09-20 | After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year’s Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. T… |
| Alejandra | Doña Elena | 1942-07-02 | There’s a lot of confusion about who Alejandra’s parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married…. |
| El hombre inquieto | Doña Fátima Sayeh | 1954-11-26 | Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man’s long-lost son…. |
| La señora de enfrente | 1945-09-21 | Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies…. | |
| La reina del mambo | 1951-02-28 | Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city…. | |
| Paloma brava | 1961-11-28 | Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff…. | |
| The Stone Crucifix | 1956-06-15 | A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has jus… | |
| Novia a la medida | 1949-05-31 | Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance…. | |
| The Living Idol | Elena | 1957-05-02 | An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess…. |
| National Mechanics | Doña Lolita | 1972-12-28 | A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elder… |
| Story of a Great Love | doña Josefa | 1942-09-20 | Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However,… |
| Marihuana El Monstruo Verde | 1936-06-04 | Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring…. | |
| Escuadrón 201 | 1945-11-30 | Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits…. | |
| Pobres millonarios | Doña Margarita del Valle | 1957-12-25 | Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor…. |
| Canta mi corazón | 1965-03-04 | Teen-pop singer launches his career. Family conflicts and girlfriend troubles…. | |
| Póker de ases | 1952-12-25 | Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother…. | |
| Ruletero a toda marcha | Doña Sarita | 1964-05-14 | Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver…. |
| Sor Ye-yé | Madre MarÃa de los Ãngeles | 1968-03-09 | Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night wit… |
| Valente Quintero | 1973-04-12 | Two best friends tragically fall in love with the same woman…. | |
| End of the Party | Doña Beatriz | 1972-01-13 | A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy…. |
| To the Sound of the Marimba | 1940-04-11 | Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces…. | |
| Los santos reyes | 1959-01-29 | Three criminals break out of jail and head for a town where they’ve hidden their steals…. | |
| Escuela para solteras | Doña Bernarda | 1965-03-25 | All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies…. |
| Yo pecador | 1959-09-20 | Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood…. | |
| Orange Blossoms for your Wedding | EloÃsa | 1950-07-19 | During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the tradi… |
| Los dos apóstoles | Doña Angustias | 1966-04-01 | Two boys and two girls hook up at the big festival in a neighboring town. Once they get back home they have to deal with their families’ plans for the… |
| Soul Sacrifice | 1917-07-20 | Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara GarcÃa as an extra…. | |
| Sexo contra sexo | Lady Owner of Can-Can Club | 1983-11-24 | The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her hus… |
| El Capitan Aventurero | Catalina, corregidora | 1939-10-07 | Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in orde… |
| La ciudad de los niños | 1957-05-31 | Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage…. | |
| Nos lleva la tristeza | 1965-01-21 | Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby hous… | |
| La Hermanita Dinamita | Madre Ana | 1970-07-23 | After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover…. |
| Un novio para dos hermanas | Sra. Cáceres | 1967-07-06 | Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of … |
| Las hijas del Amapolo | 1962-05-31 | Six grown-up daughers need husbands. Is big problem for El amapolo…. | |
| Malditas sean las mujeres | Señora de Ambrosaliet | 1936-07-08 | A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro…. |
| ¿Quién te quiere a tÃ? | Dolores | 1942-01-09 | 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 lo… |
| Las amiguitas de los ricos | 1968-06-20 | On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox ‘decency’ and marriage…. | |
| No se mande, profe | 1969-02-27 | Strait-laced teacher at a girl’s school unleashes his wild side when he debuts as a pop singer in his spare time…. | |
| Seis dÃas para morir | Doña Mercedes | 1967-11-09 | Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City…. |
| La soñadora | 1917-09-20 | La soñadora (“The Dreamer”) is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara GarcÃa as an extra…. | |
| Como México no hay dos | 1981-09-15 | Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar…. | |
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