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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1903-02-02

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Delia Magaña

Biography

Delia Magaña was a Mexican film and television actress, singer, and dancer. Although she started as a silent film actress, Magaña became best known for her comic supporting roles in her later years. For her 60 years in the film industry, as well as for contributing to the American cinema, Magaña's name and hand print are preserved in the sidewalk outside Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.

Known for

Gente Alegre

Gente Alegre

Get Off at the Next Corner!

Get Off at the Next Corner!

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.

Los Malditos

Los Malditos

White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.

María Pistolas

María Pistolas

Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.

Curmudgeon

Curmudgeon

An irascible retired old lawyer exposes a diamond thief.

Bésame mucho

Bésame mucho

A cluster of young performers will do just about anything to get their show produced.

Satanic Pandemonium

Satanic Pandemonium

Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!

La monja alférez

La monja alférez

A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.

El norteño

El norteño

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

Café de chinos

Café de chinos

Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.

El secreto de mi mujer

El secreto de mi mujer

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.

Divorciadas

Divorciadas

Divorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her late husband, leading a free and unconventional life; and Juanita, an employee at the courthouse where she meets Cristina, married but long abandoned by her husband.

Lagunilla 2

Lagunilla 2

El corrido de María Pistolas

El corrido de María Pistolas

Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.

Sor Ye-yé

Sor Ye-yé

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 with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.