
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.

El gendarme desconocido

Seven Days' Leave

Internado para señoritas

¡Ay, qué tiempos señor don Simón!

Las tandas del principal

El sexo fuerte

Yo Bailé con Don Porfirio

Los expatriados

La hija del regimiento

La Guerra de los Pasteles

El globo de Cantolla

Las 5 noches de Adán

La corte de Faraón

El conde de Montecristo

El amor las vuelve locas

Cinco minutos de amor

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico

Los tres pecados

Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9

La liga de las canciones

Dormitorio para señoritas

La pícara Susana

Recién casados... no molestar

Un beso en la noche

¡Centinela, alerta!

Al marido hay que seguirlo

Venezuela también canta

Mexican Moods