Mapy Cortés

Mapy Cortés ( María del Pilar Cordero Berrios ; born March 1, 1910 in San Juan , † August 2, 1998 ibid) was a Puerto Rican actress .

Cortés made her film debut in 1933 in Spain alongside Joaquín Bergía and Consuelo Cuevas in Dos Mujeres y un Don Juan . This was followed by other successful films such as El Paraíso Recobrado (1935), No me Mates (1936), Gato Montes (1936) and Amor Gitano (1936), and during this time he met the actor and producer Fernando Cortés . By the time she married him, she had already acted in fifteen films.

In 1937, the film Centinela, alerta! Was directed by Jean Grémillon and Luis Buñuel . based on a script by Buñuel and Carlos Arniches . Until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , she made the films Las Tandas del Principal , En Tiempos de Don Porfirio , La Hija del Regimiento and El Globo de Cantoya .

In Argentina she had success in 1938 in the film Un Tipo con suerte , directed by Carlos Calderón de la Barca . From there she went to Cuba and celebrated triumphs in Ahora Seremos Felices alongside the Mexican singer Juan Arvizu . In the early 1940s she made several films in Mexico (including La liga de las canciones , El Conde de Monte Cristo and Las cinco noches de Adán ).

Her first directed film was La Picara Susana (1944), followed by Zarzuela La Corte de Faraón in 1045 . In Hollywood, Cortés first starred in the film Seven Days Leaves alongside Victor Mature and Lucille Ball in 1942 . Her first television production was the comedy La Mujer Asesinadita produced by Paquito Cordero , which was broadcast on Puerto Rican television in 1954. With her husband she also realized the first Puerto Rican sitcom Mapy y Papi (with the latter as "Papi").

Her later films include Dormitorio para Senoritas (1959), Lamento Borincano (1962), Los Expatriados (1963), Mister Dolar and Los Tres Pecados (1965), En mi Viejo San Juan (1966), Luna de Miel en Puerto Rico ( 1968) and El Gendarme Desconocido (1987). Cortés had her last television appearances in Marionetas and Pobre juventud (both 1986). Her niece and foster daughter Mapita Cortés also became known as an actress.

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SURNAME	Cortés, Mapy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	del Pilar Cordero Berrios, María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Puerto Rican actress
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Juan (Puerto Rico)
DATE OF DEATH	August 2, 1998
Place of death	San Juan