
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.

as Perla
1963
as Perla
1964

1960

as Mapy (as Mapy Cortes)
1942

as La criollita
1941

as Haydée
1942

as Lola
1942

as Self
1942

1966

as Vedette
1937

as Inés
1941

as Rosa / Violeta
1942
1985

1966

1966
as Perla
1964

as Perla
1963

1960

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1951

as Lucero Reyes / Rosario Aldama
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as Lota
1944

1944

1943

as Mapy (as Mapy Cortes)
1942

as Rosa / Violeta
1942

as Haydée
1942

as Lola
1942