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Melgarejo
''Melgarejo'' is a 1937 Argentine film directed and written by Luis Moglia Barth. The film premiered in the US on September 19, 1937 and starred Santiago Gómez Cou and Mecha Ortiz. Editing to the film was performed by Carlos Rinaldi. Cast *Florencio Parravicini as Cándido Melgarejo *Mecha Ortiz as Clotilde Contreras *Santiago Gómez Cou as Ricardo * Orestes Caviglia as Carlos Bertolini *Blanca del Prado as Julia Bertolini *Ernesto Raquén as Juancito *Rufino Córdoba as Clodomiro Barragán * Margarita Padín as Cholita *Ilde Pirovano as María Malatesta *Blanca Vidal as Remigia Contreras *Adelaida Soler as Martina *José Ruzo as Capataz *Dorita Ferreyro as Invitada 1 (as Dora Ferreiro) *Tilda Thamar as Invitada 2 *Malisa Zini as Invitada 3 *Herminia Velich as Invitada 4 *Delia Garcés as Invitada 5 * Manuel Alcón as Liborio * Amanda Varela as Invitada 6 *Juan Vítola Juan Vítola was an Argentine theater and film actor. Career Vítola (also billed as Juan Vittola) wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florencio Parravicini
Florencio Parravicini (24 August 1876 – 25 March 1941) was an Argentine actor who primarily worked during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema, performing on both stage and in films. From an aristocratic family, he was a relative of the artist Benjamín Solari Parravicini (1898-1974). He began his career singing ''música criolla'', a Latino folk genre of music that exists in many countries throughout Latin America. He appeared in more than three hundred theatrical works and films, becoming one of the leading figures of Argentine entertainment. Facing cancer, Parravicini committed suicide in 1941. Biography Florencio Bartolomé Parravicini Romero Cazón was born on 24 August 1876 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father, Col. Reinaldo Parravicini, was the director of the penitentiary and his grandfather had been an Italian marquis who owned a large landed estate. At fourteen, he was destined for the priesthood, but abandoned the vocation for a life that was branded eccentric, geniu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Varela
Amanda Varela was an Argentine actress who primarily worked during the Cinema of Argentina#1930s–1950s: The Golden Age, Golden Age of Argentine Cinema, performing on stage and in films of Argentina and the US. She made 9 films in Argentina and 2 in the US and appeared on stage in numerous productions in both countries. Varela is usually credited with helping her sister, Mecha Ortiz, secure her first acting roles. In the 1950s, Varela retired from acting, moved to the United States, and became a matrimonial judge. Biography Amanda Varela Domínguez was born on 24 October 1911 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was the younger sister of Mecha Ortiz, yet had already made a name for herself when Ortiz embarked on an acting career. Varela helped Ortiz secure a screen test with Paramount Pictures, Paramount Studios of France and introduced her to a friend, film critic Chas de Cruz, who helped Ortiz secure a role in ''The Boys Didn't Wear Hair Gel Before, Los muchachos de antes no usaban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth (12 April 1903 - 18 June 1984) was an Argentina, Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era. He directed some 30 films between 1927 and 1959, often screenwriting for his pictures. He died in Buenos Aires, aged 81. Filmography Director: * ''Puños, chárleston y besos'' (1927) * ''El 90'' (1928) * ''Consejo de tango'' (1932) * ''¡Tango!'' (1933) * ''Dancing (1933 film), Dancing'' (1933) * ''Riachuelo (film), Riachuelo'' (1934) * ''Picaflor'' (1935) * ''Amalia (1936 film), Amalia'' (1936) * ''Santos Vega (1936 film), Santos Vega'' (1936) * ''¡Goal!'' (1936) * ''Melgarejo'' (1937) * ''La casa de Quirós'' (1937) * ''Melodías porteñas'' (1937) * ''El último encuentro'' (1938) * ''Paths of Faith'' (1938) * ''Doce mujeres'' (1939) * ''Una mujer de la calle'' (1939) * ''Huella (1940 film), Huella'' (1940) * ''Con el dedo en el gatillo'' (1940) * ''Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorita Ferreyro
Dorita Ferreyro (March 31, 1916 – December 7, 2011) was an Argentine film actress.Posadas, Landro & Speroni p.269 She is also often credited as Dora Ferreiro. Ferreyro appeared in more than fifty films and television programmes during her career as well as theatre and radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ... work. Filmography *1936: Santos Vega *1937: Melgarejo *1939: Mi suegra es una fiera *1939: Gold in Clay *1939: La mujer y el jockey (Hipódromo) *1942: The Gaucho War *1948: Juan Moreira *1953: Las tres claves *1955: Para vestir santos *1956: Los torturados *1957: Alfonsina *1958: l festín de Satanás *1961: La sed *1967: Mujeres en presidio (TV Series, 19 episodes) *1967: Lo mejor de nuestra vida... nuestros hijos (TV Series, 39 episodes) *1968: Adorable pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Vítola
Juan Vítola was an Argentine theater and film actor. Career Vítola (also billed as Juan Vittola) was well-known in Argentina's theater scene and as a cinematic actor of that country's golden age. He shared the stage with important figures of the day such as Tulia Ciámpoli, Irma Córdoba, Eloy Álvarez, Enrique Muiño, , Rosa Rosen, , Arturo García Buhr, and María Esther Podestá. Theater Vítola was a dedicated theatrical actor. He was a member of the first cast of the Teatro Cómico in 1927, forming part of the ''Compañía de Comedias y Sainetes Luis Arata'' with , , , , Blanca Crespo, A. Villavicencio, María Casenave, Delia Prieto, Carmen Villegas, Marcelo Ruggero, Juan Fernández, Ignacio Corsini, Froilán Varela, Carlos Rosingana, Jorge Gangloff, Enrique Duca, , and Alberto Fregolini. His best-known works included * ''Facha Tosta'', by , in the role of Estéfano * ''Veraneamos en bañadera'' * ''El barrio está de fiesta'' * ''Se acabaron los otarios'' * ''El mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Alcón
Manuel Alcón (died 1962) was an Argentine film actor and musician. Alcón began acting for film in 1937 and made over 30 film appearances between then and his death in 1962. He appeared in films such as '' Almafuerte'' (1949) and ''Abuso de confianza'' in 1950. Filmography *Mago de las finanzas, El (1962) *Televisor, El (1962) *Tiernas ilusiones (1961) *"Arsenio Lupin" (1961) (mini) TV Series *"¿Es usted el asesino?" (1961) (mini) TV Series *Fantasma de la opereta, El (1960) *"Figura de cera, La" (1960) (mini) TV Series *Obras maestras del terror (1960) *'' Desert Warrior'' (1957) *Viuda difícil, Una (1957) *Fierecilla domada, La (1956) * '' The Phantom of the Operetta'' (1955) *Tren internacional (1954) *Siete gritos en el mar (1954) *Yo soy el criminal (1954) *Trompada 45 (1953) *Malaire (1952) *Parda Flora, La (1952) *Payaso (1952) *Llévame contigo (1951) *Cosas de mujer (1951) *''My Divine Poverty'' (1951) *Culpa la tuvo el otro, La (1950) .... Carter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Garcés
Delia Amadora García Gerboles better known as Delia Garcés (; 13 October 1919 – 7 November 2001) was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959 and acted on stage from 1936 to 1966. She won the Premios Sur Best Actress award three times from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences, as well as the Argentine Film Critics Association's Silver Condor Award for Best Actress, the Premios Leopold Torre Nilsson, Premio Pablo Podestá, and the inaugural ACE Platinum Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asociación de Cronistas del Espectáculo. Biography Delia Amadora García Gerboles was born 13 October 1919 to Gabriel García and Amadora Gerboles in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a student of the Labardén Children's Theatre and trained at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Arte Escénico (National Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts) and the Comedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita Padín
Margarita Padín (1910–1993) was an Argentine stage and film actress.Franco p.252 Selected filmography * ''Dancing'' (1933) * ''Melgarejo'' (1937) * '' Closed Door'' (1939) * ''Mother Gloria ''Mother Gloria'' (Spanish:''Mamá Gloria'') is a 1941 Argentine comedy film directed by Richard Harlan and starring Olinda Bozán, Aída Luz and Pedro Maratea.Richard p.201 The film's sets were designed by the art director Juan Manuel Concado. ...'' (1941) References Bibliography * Eva Franco. ''Un siglo de teatro en los ojos de una dama''. Francotirador Ediciones, 1998. External links * 1910 births 1993 deaths Argentine film actresses Argentine stage actresses Actresses from Buenos Aires {{Argentina-actor-stub ... [...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] |
Francisco Lomuto
Francisco Juan Lomuto (November 24, 1893 – December 23, 1950) was an Argentine Tango pianist, leader and composer who occasionally went by the pseudonym:, "Pancho Laguna". Lomuto was born in the Parque Patricios neighbourhood of 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 ..., one of 10 children raised by Victor Lomuto and Rosalia Narducci. His mother, Rosalia, taught him piano, and by 1922, he had his own orchestra with whom he recorded over 950 numbers between 1922 and 1950. Some of his best-known compositions are; ''La revoltosa'', ''Fumando Espero'', ''Muchachita del campo'' and ''Cachadora''. Characteristic of his tango arrangements is the ending with the diminished seventh (not in vals or milonga arrangements). Lomuto became involved in several Cinema of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Vázquez Vigo
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch language, Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-British culture, Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia (; November 9, 1893 in Buenos Aires – April 1, 1971 in Tucumán) was an Argentine film actor and film director of the classic era of the Cinema of Argentina. He appeared in films such as ''La cabalgata del circo'' 1945 and '' Albergue de mujeres'' 1946. Much of his work as a director was at the beginning of his career in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He directed '' Al toque de clarín'' in 1941. Filmography Actor *Octavo infierno, El (1964) *Paula cautiva (1963) .... Florencio Peña, The Paula's Grandfather *Acosados, Los (1960) (TV) *Jefe, El (1958) *Cielo en las manos, El (1950) *De padre desconocido (1949) *Cuna vacía, La (1949) *Nace la libertad (1949) (as Oreste Caviglia) *Pelota de trapo (1948) .... Professor Guillén *Tierra del fuego (1948) *Nunca te diré adiós (1947) * Albergue de mujeres (1946) *Rosa de América (1946) * ''The Circus Cavalcade'' (1945) * ''His Best Student'' (1944) *Casa de muñecas (1943) *Malambo (1942) *En el viejo Buenos Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
