Jesús Grovas
{{Short description|Mexican film producer}}
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| birth_date = 4 April 1899
| birth_place = Mexico
| death_date = 10 September 1967 (aged 68)
| death_place = Mexico City, Mexico
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| occupation = Film producer
| yearsactive = 1937–1967 (film)
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Jesús Grovas (1899–1967) was a Mexican film producer active for several decades in the Mexican film industry.Pilcher p.84 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.Expressionism in the Cinema p.284
Selected filmography
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- 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)
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References
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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.