Elena Lucena
Biography
Elena Lucena (1914-2015) was an Argentinian actress, dancer and singer. She started her career as a singer on Argentine radio in the 1930s and became famous for the personification of her character Chimbela, who was later adapted for cinema, theater, and television. She appeared in multiple films in the 1940s, usually playing the comic-relief character.
Known For & Full Filmography28 Titles
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Chimbela
A young woman protects and falls in love with a fugitive accused of murder.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Catalina Castro
A young millionaire meets a mechanic who has invented a carburetor as a result of a breakdown in her car.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Pocha
A singer married to a gambler is accused of murder.
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Nelly
The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An unsuccessful actor wants to get money from his uncle to mount a play, and seeks a woman and a child to make them look like his wife and son.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Leocadia
The foreman of a ranch, secretly in love with the owner, tries to protect her from the gold diggers.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Madame Lulú
In the 1930s a young revolutionary falls in love with a young woman of innocent appearance but who really works in a brothel.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Going against his family's will, a lawyer becomes a tango singer.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A house in Buenos Aires where the oldest profession in the world is in practice.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Cecilia
A mother takes her husband away from her daughter; the first falls into misery and this is forced to marry a man who does not love.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Rich girl with progressive ideas goes undercover as a sales clerk at her father's department store.
Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Angélica
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Pirucha
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as The first gossip
The attractive, exuberant and beautiful Flor Tetis Soutien de Gambeta (Isabel Sarli), an ostentatious woman who kills men, has just been widowed for the eighth time. All her fortune was fading little by little and she now she is about to be ruined. But suddenly he sees her good luck reappear: A little canillita (newspaper seller), Pepe Mangiabróccoli (Pepe Marrone), with a good heart, who suddenly becomes a millionaire by earning the prode and falls in love with her.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Mamá de Laura
Amorous misadventures of a warehouse clerk rejected for his condition.
Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Lucy
A man has a street accident with his car in his way to Buenos Aires. While he waits for his car repairing, this business man learns that everybody in the little town where he's stuck seem to know about his wife Mónica. He knows little about her past, but the reactions of the townsfolk towards him range from laughing at his back to practically don't want him around. He won't leave the town until he could learn more about the secret past of his wife. But the former life of the young beautiful mother of his daughter involves a turbulent story.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.
Movie - 2001, 2h 15m • as Viviana
Arzabal wins land on the border. When he arrives to settle in, he finds himself confronted by the local political boss, unenthusiastic about his landing. Based on the play by Mario Arregui.
Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Mamá Neneca / Tía Lala
They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Camelia Da Silva
Love affairs in a theater: vedettes, sweethearts of chorus and scandals that include a millionaire.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Don Diego
Two men from the Chaco province win a fortune and travel to Buenos Aires.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Adela
A girl arrives in Buenos Aires from Catamarca and fulfills her dream of being an actress.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Upon learning that he has two months to live, a man distributes his fortune among his pensioners, over time he is still alive and has been left without a penny.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of life".
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.