Carmen Guerrero
Vintage Spanish postcard. Series Estrellas del cine, No. 145. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Carmen Guerrero, aka Carmen Guerrero Franco, was a Mexican actress, born on September 2, 1911 in Mexico city, Mexico. She had a successful career in Spanish alternate versions of early Hollywood sound films and afterward in Mexican cinema of the early 1930s. Guerrero was married to and Félix Romero Arias, Adolfo Girón, and lastly, Glen Coben Smith, She died on December 11, 1986, also in Mexico city.
Guerrero was the daughter of a civil engineer from Puebla and a woman from Guadalajara. After a bit part in the Laurel & Hardy comedy Double Whoopee (Lewis R. Foster, Hal Roach 1929), Guerrero's first substantial part was in a Mexican independent production shot in California: Dios y ley (1930) by Guillermo Calles. This effected in the start of performances in Spanish alternate versions of some ten Hollywood films, including the Spanish version of Dracula: Drácula (1931) by George Melford, in which Guerrero played Lucy/Lucia. She had the female leads in e.g. Cascarrabias (Cyril Gardner, 1930) opposite Ernesto Vilches and Barry Norton, Huye-Faldas (James W. Horne, 1931) with Charley Chase, Una cana al aire (Horne, 1931) again with Chase, Un fotógrafo distraído (Xavier Cugat, 1931) with Don Alvarado, and La gran jornada (David Howard, Samuel Schneider, Raoul Walsh, 1931), the Spanish version of The Big Trail.
In 1932 Guerrero returned to Mexico as celebrated movie star, and starred in the female lead of several Mexican films, dealing with cattle thieves (Mano a mano, 1932), the Mexican Revolution (Revolución, 1933; El compadre Mendoza, 1934), a biopic of a Mexican music composer (Sobre las olas, 1933), but also simple melodrama (La calandria, 1933). Yet, after 1934, Guerrero's career petered out. She still had the lead in Raphael Sevilla's María Elena (1936), but afterward only three more films followed between 1936 and 1946, in which she had supporting parts.
Source: IMDb.
Carmen Guerrero
Vintage Spanish postcard. Series Estrellas del cine, No. 145. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Carmen Guerrero, aka Carmen Guerrero Franco, was a Mexican actress, born on September 2, 1911 in Mexico city, Mexico. She had a successful career in Spanish alternate versions of early Hollywood sound films and afterward in Mexican cinema of the early 1930s. Guerrero was married to and Félix Romero Arias, Adolfo Girón, and lastly, Glen Coben Smith, She died on December 11, 1986, also in Mexico city.
Guerrero was the daughter of a civil engineer from Puebla and a woman from Guadalajara. After a bit part in the Laurel & Hardy comedy Double Whoopee (Lewis R. Foster, Hal Roach 1929), Guerrero's first substantial part was in a Mexican independent production shot in California: Dios y ley (1930) by Guillermo Calles. This effected in the start of performances in Spanish alternate versions of some ten Hollywood films, including the Spanish version of Dracula: Drácula (1931) by George Melford, in which Guerrero played Lucy/Lucia. She had the female leads in e.g. Cascarrabias (Cyril Gardner, 1930) opposite Ernesto Vilches and Barry Norton, Huye-Faldas (James W. Horne, 1931) with Charley Chase, Una cana al aire (Horne, 1931) again with Chase, Un fotógrafo distraído (Xavier Cugat, 1931) with Don Alvarado, and La gran jornada (David Howard, Samuel Schneider, Raoul Walsh, 1931), the Spanish version of The Big Trail.
In 1932 Guerrero returned to Mexico as celebrated movie star, and starred in the female lead of several Mexican films, dealing with cattle thieves (Mano a mano, 1932), the Mexican Revolution (Revolución, 1933; El compadre Mendoza, 1934), a biopic of a Mexican music composer (Sobre las olas, 1933), but also simple melodrama (La calandria, 1933). Yet, after 1934, Guerrero's career petered out. She still had the lead in Raphael Sevilla's María Elena (1936), but afterward only three more films followed between 1936 and 1946, in which she had supporting parts.
Source: IMDb.