Jesús Grovas Explained

Jesús Grovas (1899–1967) was a Mexican film producer active for several decades in the Mexican film industry.^[1] His career took off during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. He formed a production company with the director Juan Bustillo Oro which produced a number of commercial successes.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Poppy of the Road (1937)
• The Girl's Aunt (1938)
• Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)
• Horse for Horse (1939)
• In the Times of Don Porfirio (1939)
• You're Missing the Point (1940)
• To the Sound of the Marimba (1941)
• ¡Así se quiere en Jalisco! (1941)
• I Danced with Don Porfirio (1942)
• Simón Bolívar (1942)
• The Eternal Secret (1942)
• Doña Bárbara (1943)
• The Noiseless Dead (1946)
• It's Not Enough to Be a Charro (1946)
• The Devourer (1946)
• If I'm to Be Killed Tomorrow (1947)
• Soledad (1947)
• The Lost Child (1947)
• Music Inside (1947)
• The Last Night (1948)
• Two of the Angry Life (1948)
• Two Pesos Left (1949)
• Only Veracruz Is Beautiful (1949)
• Immaculate (1950)
• History of a Heart (1951)
• Get Your Sandwiches Here (1951)
• The Trace of Some Lips (1952)
• Here Come the Freeloaders (1953)
• Penjamo (1953)
• The Boy and the Fog (1953)
• Father Against Son (1955)
• The Medallion Crime (1956)
• Arm in Arm Down the Street (1956)
• Las señoritas Vivanco (1959)
• El proceso de las señoritas Vivanco (1961)

Bibliography

• Brill, Olaf (ed.) Expressionism in the Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
• Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Notes and References

1. Pilcher p.84
2. Expressionism in the Cinema p.284