Highest rated movie: My Son, the Hero (1961)
Lowest rated movie: Reportaje (1953)
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Movies starring Columba Domínguez have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 80%.
My Son, the Hero - released in 1961 - is Columba Domínguez's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 2 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Columba Domínguez is Reportaje - released in 1953 - with a score of 76% based on 2 reviews.
Columba Domínguez 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 Domínguez 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 Río Escondido (1947). In 1948, Fernandez give her the antagonistic role in the film Maclovia (1948), with María 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 to 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 Rio 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 A day in the life, 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 The river and death (1955)), Fernando Méndez (director of the cult film Thief of corpses (1957), considered one of the best Mexican horror films) and Ismael Rodriguez (who took her to star in two masterpieces: The Brothers of Iron (1961) and Ánimas Trujano (1962), with the Japanese actorToshiro Mifune), among others. In 1962 she participated in The weaver of miracles, 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 The under bare. (1956). In the television, Domínguez participed in some soap operas like The storm (1967) and The carriage (1972). Her last appearance in the television was in Learning to love(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 Dove. That same year, Dominguez was honored by the International Film Festival of the Border, in Ciudad Juarez, in which some of the most representative titles in which I have participated were projected.[2] In 2010, Domínguez made a special appearances in the films The zebra and Clear the memory.[3] In 2012, she participating in the film The last drink. In May 2013, Columba Domínguez was honored with the Golden Ariel Award for her contributions to the Mexican film industry.
Columba Domínguez has acted in films with Arturo de Córdova, Arturo Soto Rangel, Tito Novaro and José Elías Moreno.
Columba Domínguez has worked with these film directors: Emilio Fernández and Ismael Rodríguez.
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