
Actor
Mapy Cortés
Born 1910 · Santurce, Puerto Rico
Maria del Pilar Cordero (March 1, 1910 – August 2, 1998), better known as Mapy Cortés, was a Puerto Rican actress who acted in many films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Cortés appeared in the U.S. State Department propaganda short film "Mexican Moods". In 1942, Cortés made her only foray into Hollywood cinema, playing a singer in the RKO wartime musical comedy Seven Days' Leave. Her eponymous character is engaged to Victor Mature's soldier character before he falls in love with a socialite played by Lucille Ball. After filming Seven Days Leave, Mapy Cortés returned to Mexico City and played roles in contemporary romantic comedies and nostalgia musicals set during the Mexican Belle Époque. The 1945 Mapy Cortés vehicle La pícara Susana / Mischievous Susana[5] marked the directorial debut of her husband Fernando. After Fernando died, Mapy returned to Puerto Rico and led a relatively quiet life. In 1998 she died at her home of a heart attack. She was buried at the Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Acting

The Unknown Policeman
La criollita · 1941

Seven Days' Leave
Mapy (as Mapy Cortes) · 1942

Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Inés · 1941

Las tandas del principal
Lucero Reyes / Rosario Aldama · 1949

Los expatriados
Perla · 1963

Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Rosa / Violeta · 1942

The Pharaoh's Court
Lota · 1944

El conde de Montecristo
Haydée · 1942

Cinco minutos de amor
Lulú · 1941

Las cinco noches de Adán
Lola · 1942

Guard! Alert!
Vedette · 1937

Mexican Moods
Self · 1942
Ahora seremos felices
Alma · 1939
Mr. Dólar
Perla · 1964