Emma Penella
1930 - 2007Daughter of the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva, granddaughter of the composer Manuel Penella Moreno, great-granddaughter of the also musician Manuel Penella Raga, sister of the also actresses Elisa Montés (1934) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017). She married film producer Emiliano Piedra with whom she had three daughters: Emma, Lola and Emiliana. She was also the aunt of the actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa Montés and the actor Antonio Ozores).
Actress of marked personality and prestige since the 1950s, she triumphed in cinema thanks to films such as Luis García Berlanga's El verdugo (The Executioner) and maintained intense theatrical activity. She renewed her popularity in her later years participating in the television series Aquí no hay quien viva (2003-2006) and La que se avecina (2007).
Los peces rojos
José Antonio Nieves Conde
Arturo de Córdova, Emma Penella
Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night, along with Carlos, Hugo's 19-year-old son. When they decide to lean over the cliffs of the coast to observe the wild dance of the turbulent waves down below, an unexpected event tragically happens.
Red Fish
Doña Francisquita
Ladislao Vajda
Mirtha Legrand, Armando Calvo
Set in the romantic Madrid of the 19th century, it narrates the loves and misunderstandings between various characters. Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he has fallen in love with Aurora, a typical Madrilenian woman used to flirting with all men.
Doña Francisquita
El amor brujo
Carlos Saura
Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.
El amor brujo
Los ojos dejan huellas
José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi
Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...
The Eyes Leave a Trace
Cómicos
Juan Antonio Bardem
Elisa Galvé, Fernando Rey
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagonist, however, the paper turns to fall on the veteran Carmen. The businessman Charles Marquez offers Ana to be the star in the new play if she becomes his lover
Comedians
El crimen de Don Benito
Antonio Drove
Fernando Delgado, Emma Penella
July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.
El crimen de Don Benito
El batallón de las sombras
Manuel Mur Oti
Amparo Rivelles, José Suárez
Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...
The Shadow Battalion
The Search
Angelino Fons
Jacques Perrin, Emma Penella
Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the unforgiving city where only the strongest will prosper. Manuel defends himself and kills a murderous thief in a fight then quietly waits for the police to reach the scene of the crime.
The Search
La hora incógnita
Mariano Ozores
Emma Penella, José Luis Ozores
In a small Spanish town, is expected to explode a nuclear bomb to ten at night. All neighbors leave, except for thirteen people who are gathered in the church and, with the help of the pastor, will find that there is still a possibility of salvation.
La hora incógnita
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Luis Lucia
Emma Penella, José Luis Ozores
Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas, he decides to go to a friends party. Due to alcohol effects, he share out the money to the people who need it more.
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
De espaldas a la puerta
José María Forqué
Emma Penella, Amelia Bence
One of the staff girls at The Golden Mousetrap, a city nightclub, has been stabbed and is barely alive; a doctor is examining her in a dressing room. Inspector Simón leads the investigation supported by the night shift inspector Arévalo. The club management asks that nobody leave the place, since everyone there must cooperate with the police and being interrogated.
Back to the Door
