Columba Domínguez
Date of birth: 1929-03-04
Place of birth: Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Columba Domínguez Alarid, Колумба Домингес
Biography
Columba Domínguez Adalid (March 4, 1929 – August 13, 2014) was a Mexican film actress. Considered a crucial figure in the Golden 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 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 Río 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 Un día de vida, 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 El río y la muerte (1955)), Fernando Méndez (director of the cult film Ladrón de cadáveres (1957), considered one of the best Mexican horror films) and Ismael Rodriguez (who took her to star in two masterpieces: Los Hermanos de Hierro (1961) and Ánimas Trujano (1962), with the Japanese actorToshiro Mifune), among others. In 1962 she participated in El tejedor de milagros, 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 La virtud desnuda. (1956). In the television, Domínguez participed in some telenovelas like La tormenta (1967) and El carruaje (1972). Her last appearance in the television was in Aprendiendo a amar(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 Paloma. That same year, Dominguez was honored by the International Film Festival de la Frontera, in Ciudad Juarez, in which some of the most representative titles in which he participated were projected.[2] In 2010, Domínguez made a special appearances in the films La cebra and Borrar la memoria.[3] In 2012, she participates in the film El último trago. In May 2013, Columba Domínguez was honored with the Golden Ariel Award for her contributions to the Mexican film industry.
Movie Credits
The Unloved Woman
1949-09-16
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess
Adventure at the Center of the Earth
1965-09-02
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by so
The Important Man
1961-11-03
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all
The River and Death
1954-08-22
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican villag
Pueblerina
1949-07-06
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life by marrying Paloma and workin
My Son, the Hero
1961-10-05
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reyn
Bread, Love and Andalucia
1958-12-04
Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in
The Body Snatcher
1957-09-26
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murd
Furia en el Edén
1964-01-01
Miracles Weaver
1962-12-27
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her
Llanto por Juan Indio
1965-01-01
The story revolves around a farmer who is tried for stealing a military rifle and is sentenced to de
Borrar de la Memoria
2010-10-14
A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved
Devotion
1950-11-29
In Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi fam
Mundo, demonio y carne
1960-01-01
One Day of Life
1950-11-23
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposit
The She-Wolf
1965-07-01
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
When the Fog Lifts
1952-11-23
One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a lo
Ramona
2014-10-22
Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the prepara
Little Town
1962-08-02
Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
Reportaje
1953-11-13
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955-04-28
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Maclovia
1948-09-30
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disda
Pueblo Canto y Esperanza
1956-05-17
Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
Mi niño Tizoc
1972-07-13
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo gr
El hombre propone...
1965-06-04
Anthology film, four stories set in Guadalajara and environs.
Ambición sangrienta
1968-08-29
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
Duelo de pistoleros
1966-03-31
Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains w
La virtud desnuda
1957-05-04
A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agr
La bienamada
1951-09-13
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. Th
The Pearl
1947-09-12
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor ref
Duelo indio
1961-05-12
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pan
El caudillo
1957-07-10
Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally f
The Paper Man
1963-10-05
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries t
Lawless Youth
1965-03-21
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment
Tragic Cabaret
1957-11-27
Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a mur
Una gallina muy ponedora
1982-06-03
A beautiful woman discovers the rooster fighting world and in the process fall in love with a handso
Pepita Jimenez
1946-02-22
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of
Soy el hijo del gallero
1978-08-23
Arriba Michoacán
1987-07-09
The two largest ranches in a small town are operated entirely by women, because their menfolk have a
La sombra de los hijos
1964-05-04
Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children throug
Five lives and one destiny
1957-03-28
Jailbreak! Five death-row inmates run for the border.
La fuerza de los humildes
1955-09-22
Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a k
Marcelo y María
1966-11-10
Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of t
Unfaithful Wives
1956-11-01
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Mujeres que trabajan
1953-04-22
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in
Enterrado vivo
1961-06-24
Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the
Viva la parranda
1960-08-04
Three con-artists chase after the absconded girlfriend of one and butt heads with two female swindle
El mar y tu
1952-03-07
Victimas de la pobreza
1986-01-01
Wounded Dove
1963-10-16
The story of a native Mexican who wants to kill a man.
Hidden River
1948-02-12
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated
Paloma
2008-03-11
Román has decided to leave his native town, but first he must say goodbye to Paloma.
El tiro de gracia
1961-02-15