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Prudencia Grifell
Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico.
Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940.
Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles.
As actor
Why Was I Born a Woman?
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
El señor doctor
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Senda prohibida
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Mis abuelitas... no más!
The Shadow of the Tyrant
La hermana blanca
The Vivanco Ladies
México nunca duerme
Little Red Riding Hood
Mi desconocida esposa
Préstame tu cuerpo
School for Mothers-in-Law
The Man That Pleases Me
Horas de agonía
The Smile of the Virgin
Raffles
Pepito and the Monster
Angel Face
The Third Word
Pensión de artistas
Sublime melodía
X Murderer
El monstruo en la sombra
Al Diablo Las Mujeres
El plagiario
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Una mujer en la calle