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Elena Lucena
María Elena Lucena Arcuri (25 September 1914 – 7 October 2015) was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–60). She began her career in radio in the 1930s and reached her greatest success with the role of "Chimbela", which was later depicted in film, theater and television. Her extensive film career includes approximately 50 films, including notable performances in ''Chimbela'' (1939) and ''Una noche cualquiera'' (1951). During the 1940s, she participated in films with comedians like Pepe Arias, Pepe Iglesias, Pepe Iglesias "El Zorro", , Mirtha Legrand and Carlos Estrada. Her most acclaimed film work occurred in ''Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tienda'' (1942) by Manuel Romero (director), Manuel Romero, ''Cinco besos'' by Luis Saslavsky and ''La Rubia Mireya'' for which she received the 1948 Best Comedy Actress Award from the Argentine Film Critics Association. She also performed as a dancer and, beginning in 1960, did several musical comedies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre", named after the Madonna of Bonaria in Sardinia, Italy. Buenos Aires is classified as an alpha global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2020 ranking. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa O'Connor
Elsa O'Connor (1905–1947) was an Argentine stage and film actress. Life and career The daughter of actress and journalist Amelia Monti, who introduced her to the stage, she debuted with the Blanca Podestá company in 1923. O`Connor was awarded the prize to the best dramatic actress for her role in ''Himeneo'' and ''Celos.'' Her most successful role in theatre was in 1944 as Bella in the play ''Luz de Gas'', by Narciso Ibáñez Menta, an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's ''Gas Light''. In cinema, O'Connor also won the award of the Argentine Film Critics Association to the best support actress for the 1944 film ''The Desire''. Elsa O'Connor died in Montevideo from a traumatic brain injury on 7 April 1947, several days after falling down a staircase while acting in the play ''La Gata''. She was the mother of actor Horacio O'Connor (1928-1997) and the grandmother of tenor Martín O'Connor. Selected filmography * '' The Life of Carlos Gardel'' (1939) * ''Sensational Kidna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Mugica
René Mugica (8 August 1909 – 3 May 1998) was an Argentine actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 13 films between 1940 and 1953. He also directed ten films between 1961 and 1971. Selected filmography Actor * ''The Gaucho Priest'' (1941) * ''La Guerra Gaucha'' (1942) * ''El Fin de la noche'' (1944) * ''His Best Student'' (1944) * '' Savage Pampas'' (1945) * ''Where Words Fail'' (1946) Director * '' That Forward Center Died at Dawn (El centroforward murió al amanecer)'' - 1961 * ''Man on Pink Corner (Hombre de la Esquina Rosada)'' - 1962 * ''Rata de puerto'' - 1963 * '' La Murga'' - 1963 * ''Demon in the Blood (El demonio en la sangre)'' - 1964 * ''El octavo infierno'' - 1964 * ''The Amphitheatre (El Reñidero)'' - 1965 * ''Viaje de una noche de verano'' - 1965 * ''La buena vida'' - 1966 * ''Bajo el signo de la patria ''Bajo el signo de la patria'' is a 1971 Argentina, Argentine drama film directed by René Múgica and written by Isaac Aisemberg. The film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Borcosque
Carlos Francisco Borcosque Sánchez (9 September 1894 – 5 September 1965) was a Chilean film director and screenwriter involved in the production of the Cinema of Argentina. Borcosque was born in Valparaíso. He established Estudios Cinematográficos Borcosque in Santiago in 1922 and directed several Chilean silent movies before he moved to Hollywood in 1926 where he worked as a consultant on Latin-based movies, and had a spell working for Paramount Pictures. Between 1922 and his death in 1965 Borcosque was responsible for directing and screenwriting mostly simultaneously some 45 different feature films including the 1951 film '' El alma de los niños''. He died in Buenos Aires. Filmography as director * ''Hombres de esta tierra'' (1922) * '' Traición'' (1923) * '' Vida y milagros de Don Fausto'' (1924) * '' Martín Rivas'' (1925) * '' Diablo fuerte'' (1925) * ''El huérfano'' (1926) * '' Wu Li Chang'' (1930) * '' En cada puerto un amor'' (1931) * '' La mujer X'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Calavera
''El Calavera'' is a 1954 Argentinian film. Directed by Carlos F. Borcosque, script by Emilio Villalba Welsh and Wilfredo Jimenez, based on Maurice Hennequin's and Pierre Veber's theater play ''Las delicias del hogar'' (''Les Joies du foyer''). The movie was released on August 31, 1954. Cast *Enrique Serrano *Elena Lucena * Jorge Rivier *Norma Giménez *Raimundo Pastore *Julián Bourges *Antonio Provitilo *Ángeles Martínez *Celia Geraldy *Rafael Diserio * Haydée Menta *Narciso Ibáñez Menta Narciso Ibáñez Menta (; August 25, 1912 – May 15, 2004) was a Spanish theatre, film, and television actor. Biography Born in Langreo, Asturias, Spain, Ibáñez Menta made his first stage appearance at the age of seven at the Teatro La Come ... References External links * 1954 films 1950s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films Argentine films based on plays Argentine comedy films 1954 comedy films 1950s Argentine films {{1950s-Argentina-film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mecha Ortiz
Mecha Ortiz (née María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro; 1900–1987) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981, during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. At the 1944 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Ortiz won the Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for her performance in '' Safo, historia de una pasión'' (1943) and won it again in 1946 for her performance in '' El canto del cisne'' (1945). She was known as the Argentine Greta Garbo and for playing mysterious characters, who suffered by past misfortunes in love, mental disorders, or forbidden love. ''Safo, historia de una pasión'' was the first erotic Argentine film, though there was no nudity. She also played in the first film in which a woman struck a man and the first film with a lesbian romance. In 1981, she was awarded the Grand Prize for actresses from the National Endowment for the Arts. Early life and background María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro, known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina Singerman
Paulina Singerman Begun (1911 – 9 February 1984) was an Argentine actress and businesswoman who primarily worked during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema, performing on both stage and in films. In the later part of her career, she spent a decade performing for television. She was the younger sister of actress Berta Singerman. In 1981, she was awarded both a Diploma of Merit and a Platinum Konex for her comedy work in film and theatre. Biography Paulina Singerman Begun was born in 1911 in Buenos Aires to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. From an early age, Singerman and her sister Berta and their neighbour, Amelia Bence performed with other neighbourhood children in the courtyards of their homes. It was actually Paulina who suggested to Bence's mother that she should take acting classes at the Lavardén Children's Theater, operating in the Teatro Colón, where Singerman was studying. At the age of 14, she entered the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Arte Escénico (Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Fernández, Vendedora De Tiendas
''Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tiendas'' is a Argentine films of 1942, 1942 Argentina, Argentine comedy film directed by Manuel Romero (director), Manuel Romero. It stars Paulina Singerman, Juan Carlos Thorry, Tito Lusiardo and Sofía Bozán. The film is about the daughter of a millionaire store owner, who organizes a worker strike. Plot Paulina, the daughter of the millionaire owner of a store, becomes employed at the store under an assumed name. She investigates the injustices of the workers and leads a strike, forcing her father and the store operators to bring about improvements in working conditions. Cast * Paulina Singerman * Juan Carlos Thorry * Tito Lusiardo * Sofía Bozán * Enrique Roldán * Carmen del Moral * Elena Lucena * Alberto Terrones * Juan Mangiante * Julio Renato * Salvador Sinaí * Miguel Di Carlo * Oscar Savino * Juan Gamboa (actor), Juan Gamboa * Fernando Campos (actor), Fernando Campos Themes The film has been compared to other film of the period inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ven Mi Corazón Te Llama
''Ven mi corazón te llama'' is a 1942 Argentine film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... directed by Manuel Romero. External links * 1942 films 1940s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films Films directed by Manuel Romero Argentine musical films 1942 musical films 1940s Argentine films {{1940s-Argentina-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuri Montsé
Nury Montsé (December 25, 1917 – December 26, 1971) was a Spanish-Argentine film actress of the 1930s and 1940s. She made over 20 appearances in Argentine cinema from 1936 to 1946.Nury Montsé // Diccionario de actrices del cine argentino 1933—1997 (1° edición) / Roberto Blanco Pazos; Raúl Clemente. — Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 1997. — p. 169. Career Filmography * '' Compañeros'' (1936) * ''Don Quijote del altillo (as Urbana) (1936) * '' Papá Chirola'' (1937) * '' Campeón por una mujer'' (1939) * ''Chimbela'' (1939) * ''Palabra de honor'' (1939) * ''Twelve Women'' (1939) * ''Chingolo'' (1940) * ''Con el dedo en el gatillo'' (1940) * ''Dama de compañía'' (1940) *''Educating Niní'' (1940) * '' La casa del recuerdo'' (1940) * '' Canción de cuna'' (Cradle Song) (1941) * ''El mejor papá del mundo'' (The Best Father in the World) (1941) * ''Los martes, orquídeas'' (On Tuesdays, Orchids) (1941) * ''El gran secreto'' (1942) * ''Historia de crímenes'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Dormal
Mary Dormal (?–?) was an Argentine actress and vedette (cabaret), vedette of the 1930s. She was one of the notable performers of the golden decade (1938–1948). Dormal worked with the director Manuel Romero (director), Manuel Romero, and with the film actors, Paulina Singerman, Enrique Serrano, and Niní Marshall. In theater, she appeared with Camila Quiroga, Norma Castillo, Nelida Quiroga, Mangacha Gutierrez, Arrieta Rosita Blanca Vidal, Dora Dolly, and Carmen Castex. Dorman was born in Buenos Aires and died there as well. Filmography * 1938: ''La rubia del camino'' * 1938: ''La chismosa'' * 1939: ''Mandinga en la sierra'' * 1939: ''Divorcio en Montevideo'' * 1939: ''Muchachas que estudian'' * 1939: ''Chimbela'' * 1939: ''La pícara mentirosa'' * 1940: ''El solterón'' * 1940: ''Isabelita (film), Isabelita'' * 1942: ''La novia de primavera'' * 1943: ''Juvenilla'' * 1948: ''Porteña de corazón'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dormal, Mary Actresses from Buenos Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
