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In A Corner Of Spain
''In a Corner of Spain'' (Spanish: ''En un rincón de España'') is a 1949 Spanish drama film directed by Jerónimo Mihura and starring Carlos Agostí, Juan de Landa and Blanca de Silos. It was the first Spanish film in colour, using the cinefotocolor process.Bentley p.95-96 Part of the narrative portrays the lives of Polish political refugees who have settled in Spain. Cast * Carlos Agostí as Pablo * José Bruguera as Padre Luis * Jesús Castro Blanco as Médico * Arturo Cámara as Comisario * Juan de Landa as Alcalde * Blanca de Silos as Lida Kluber * Osvaldo Genazzani as Stanis Kluber * José Isbert as Tío Tomás, el pescador * María Martín as Rosa María * Adriano Rimoldi as Vladimir * Conrado San Martín as Ian Eminowicz * Aníbal Vela as Juan Carlos * Bartolomé Planas * Manuel Requena * Juan Manuel Soriano Juan Manuel Soriano (1920 – 10 October 1995) was a Spanish voice actor and his career spanned over 50 years including a radio program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerónimo Mihura
Jerónimo Mihura (6 July 1902 – 10 October 1990) was a Spanish film director who made a number of documentary films. He is also notable for a group of screwball-style comedies such as ''House of Cards (1943 film), House of Cards'' (1943) and ''My Beloved Juan'' (1950). He was the brother of the writer Miguel Mihura.Labanyi & Pavlović p.196 Selected filmography * ''House of Cards (1943 film), House of Cards'' (1943) * ''The Road to Babel'' (1945) * ''In a Corner of Spain'' (1949) * ''They Always Return at Dawn'' (1949) * ''My Beloved Juan'' (1950) * ''I Want to Marry You'' (1951) References Bibliography * Labanyi, Jo & Pavlović, Tatjana. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. John Wiley & Sons, 2012. External links * 1902 births 1990 deaths Spanish film directors Spanish male writers Male screenwriters People from Cádiz 20th-century Spanish screenwriters 20th-century Spanish male writers {{Spain-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Films
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1949 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *April 26–June 21 – Ealing comedies ''Passport to Pimlico'', '' Whisky Galore!'' and ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' are released in the UK, leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies. *November 15 – Following the prior year's Supreme Court decision in ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'', Paramount Pictures is split into two separate companies with the creation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for production-distribution and United Paramount Theaters for the theater operations. *December 21 – Cecil B. DeMille's ''Samson and Delilah'', starring Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Henry Wilcoxon, receives its televised world premiere at the Paramount and Rivoli theatres in New York City. The film opens in Los Angeles on Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Manuel Soriano
Juan Manuel Soriano (1920 – 10 October 1995) was a Spanish voice actor and his career spanned over 50 years including a radio program of ''Don Juan Tenorio''. In radio, he dubbed American actors such as Clark Gable, Kirk Douglas and James Stewart. He created the Radio Nacional de España (RNE) radio program ''Teatro invisible''. He also won a Premios Ondas for Best Actor in the RNE programs in 1957. Filmography * '' In a Corner of Spain'' (1949) * ''Unas páginas en negro''(1950) * ''Érase una vez'' (1950) * ''Facing the Sea'' (1951) * ''Luna de sangre'' (1952) * '' Hay un camino a la derecha'' (1953) * ''Once pares de botas'' (1954) * ''La pecadora'' (1956) * ''The Legion of Silence'' (1956) * ''El último verano'' (1962) * ''¿Quién tiene la palabra?'' (TV series) (1963) * ''¿Quién es quién?'' (TV series) (1963) * ''Los Tarantos ''Los Tarantos'' is a 1963 Spanish musical drama film directed by Francisco Rovira Beleta. It was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Requena (actor)
Manuel Requena (1802–1876) was a Yucatán-born Californio politician who served multiple terms as Alcalde of Los Angeles (Mayor of Los Angeles). Requena became active in Los Angeles politics in the 1830s, during the Mexican era, and continued serving after the American Conquest of California until his death in the 1850s. Early life Requena was born in 1802 in the Mexican state of Yucatán, where he grew up and went on to become a successful merchant. In 1834 he moved to Los Angeles, where he quickly became an important business and political figure for the Mexican government. Political career Mexican California At one point, Requena, who was accorded the honorific Don, was appointed an election judge, but he declined, citing ill health. The ''ayuntamiento'' was about to accept it when some one reported that Don Manuel was engaged in pruning his vineyard, whereupon a committee of investigation was appointed, with Juan Temple, merchant, as medical expert. The committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomé Planas
Bartolomé may refer to: Places * Bartolomé Island (Spanish: Isla Bartolomé), a volcanic islet in the Galápagos Islands Group * Isla Bartolomé, Diego Ramirez Islands, Chile People * Bartolomé Bermejo (c.1440–c.1501), Spanish painter * Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618–1682), Spanish painter * Bartolomé de Escobedo (1500–1563), Spanish composer * Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566), Spanish priest * Bartolomé de Medina, (149?–15??), Spanish metallurgist * Bartolomé de Medina, (1527–1581), Spanish theologian See also * Bartholomew (other) Bartholomew the Apostle was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus. Bartholomew may also refer to: * Bartholomew (name), a given name and family name * Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople * Bayou Bartholomew, a ba ... {{Disambig, geo, surname Spanish masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aníbal Vela
Aníbal is the Spanish and Portuguese masculine given name equivalent of Hannibal (q.v.), itself a latinization of the Greek name Hanníbas (Ἀννίβας), derived from “ḥnbʿl” in the Carthaginian language (Carthaginian Punic script, 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋), a descendant of the Phoenician Canaanite language in which the name's meaning is "Baʿal ( heLord) smy grace", a cognate of the Hebrew honorific Baʿal (בעל) “master/lord”. In English, it may refer to: * Aníbal (wrestler) stagename of Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras (1940–1994), Mexican wrestler * Aníbal Acevedo (born 1971), Puerto Rican boxer * Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (born 1962), Puerto Rican politician * Aníbal Capela (born 1991), Portuguese footballer * Aníbal Cavaco Silva (born 1939), Portuguese president * Aníbal González (born 1963), Chilean footballer * Aníbal González Irizarry (1927-2018), Puerto Rican broadcast journalist * Aníbal López ''aka'' A-1 53167 (1964–2014), Guatemalan artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrado San Martín
Conrado San Martín Prieto (20 February 1921 – 24 April 2019) was a Spanish actor with a long and prolific career. He made his film debut in 1941 and was particularly popular during the 1950s. Life Conrado San Martín left behind a career as an amateur boxer to take small roles in the theater in the company of Cayetano Luca de Tena and to act as an extra in some films.Torres, '' ''Diccionario del cine Español'', p. 419 He made his film debut with ''Oro vil'' (1941) a film directed by Eduardo García Maroto. During the 1940s, San Martín became an actor in secondary roles and was very much in demand in some of the most important Spanish films of that period: ''El fantasma y Doña Juanita'' (1944) directed by Rafael Gil, ''Los últimos de Filipinas'' (1945) directed by Antonio Román; ''A los pies de usted'' de Garcia Viñolas (1945); ''La princesa de los Ursinos'' (1947), by Luis Lucia and ''La Lola se va a los puertos'' (1947) and ''Locura de amor'' (1948), both films directe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Rimoldi
Adriano Rimoldi (1912–1965) was an Italian film actor. Career He appeared in more than sixty films during his career, which stretched from the late 1930s to his death in the mid 1960s. In 1940 he played the male lead in the melodrama '' Goodbye Youth'', alongside Maria Denis and Clara Calamai, two of the leading actresses of the Fascist era.Goble p.356 He appeared alongside the world-famous comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in their final film ''Atoll K''. Selected filmography * ''A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) - Un impiegato della radio * ''Bridge of Glass'' (1940) * ''Il signore della taverna'' (1940) - Il suo fidanzato * ''Kean'' (1940) - Orazio nell' Amleto * ''Miseria e nobiltà'' (1940) - Il marchesino Eugenio * '' Goodbye Youth'' (1940) - Mario * '' The Story of Tosca'' (1941) - Angelotti * ''La compagnia della teppa'' (1941) - Giorgio Appiani * ''Tosca'' (1941) * ''Captain Tempest'' (1942) - Marcello Corner * ''Tragic Night'' (1942) - Il conte Paolo Martorelli * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Isbert
José Enrique Benito y Emeterio Ysbert Alvarruiz (3 March 1886 in Madrid – 28 November 1966 in Madrid), also known as José Isbert and/or Pepe Isbert, was a Spanish actor. Biography Early life In 1903 he worked at the Court of Accounts (Tribunal de Cuentas), but decided to give up working as a civil servant and that same year he made his stage debut at the Teatro Apolo (Madrid), Teatro Apolo in Madrid in the play ''El iluso Cañizares'', changing the spelling of his real name from Y to I. He moved to the Teatro Lara, where he was very successful. He was married to Elvira Soriano and he was father of the actress María Isbert and grandfather of Tony Isbert and Carlos Ysbert (the second Spanish voice of Homer Simpson). Career In 1912 he debuted in the short film ''Asesinato y entierro de Don José Canalejas'' (playing Manuel Pardiñas, Pardiñas, the anarchist who killed José Canalejas (politician), José Canalejas). During the silent era he worked in theatre with supporti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osvaldo Genazzani
Osvaldo Genazzani was an Italian actor who appeared in more than forty films. He appeared alongside Amedeo Nazzari in the 1948 Spanish comedy ''Unexpected Conflict''.Lancia p.104 Selected filmography * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1926) * ''Boccaccio'' (1940) * '' Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * '' Love Story'' (1942) * '' Measure for Measure'' (1943) * '' Two Hearts'' (1943) * ''Unexpected Conflict'' (1948) * ''Mare Nostrum'' (1948) * '' The Butterfly That Flew Over the Sea'' (1948) * '' That Luzmela Girl'' (1949) * '' In a Corner of Spain'' (1949) * '' Child of the Night'' (1950) * ''4 Dollars of Revenge'' (1966) * ''Clint the Stranger'' (1967) * '' The Boldest Job in the West'' (1969) * ''Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return ''Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return'' ( es, Judas... ¡toma tus monedas!) is a 1972 Spanish western film directed by Alfonso Balcázar and Pedro Luis Ramírez, scored by Piero Piccioni and starring Vittorio Richelmy, George Martin and Fernando ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Cámara
Arturo is a Spanish and Italian variant of the name Arthur. People *Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1985), American-born Salvadoran footballer *Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1959), Mexican footballer *Arthuro Henrique Bernhardt (b. 1982), Brazilian football (soccer) player * Arturo Brachetti (born 1957), Italian quick-change artist * Arturo Bragaglia (1893–1962), Italian actor *Arturo Bravo (born 1958), Mexican racewalker *Arturo Casadevall (born 1957), American physician * Arturo Castro (Mexican actor) (1918–1975), Mexican actor * Arturo Castro (Guatemalan actor), Guatemalan actor *Arturo Corvalán (born 1978), Chilean road cyclist *Arturo De Vecchi (1898–1988), Italian fencer * Arturo Di Modica (1941–2021), Italian-born American artist *Arturo Di Napoli (born 1974), Italian soccer (UK: football) coach * Arturo Dominici (1918–1992), Italian actor and dubbing artist *Arturo Freeman, American football player * Arturo Frondizi (1908–1995), 35th President of Argentin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |