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Montserrat Blanch
Montserrat Blanch Ferrer (b. 1903 - d. Madrid; February 1995) was a Spanish actress. Biography Sister of the actors José and Modesto Blanch and aunt of Jaime Blanch. She was an essentially theatrical actress. Her career dates back to the 1920s. She joined Carmen Díaz's company, where she shared the stage with actors Rafael Bardem, Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, and Julia Lajos in plays including ''La maja'', by Luis Fernández Ardavín, ''Los duendes de Sevilla'' (1929), by the Álvarez Quintero Brothers, ''La de los claveles dobles'' (1930), by Luis de Vargas, or ''El susto'' (1933), by the Quintero family. Later, with Josefina Díaz de Artigas, she appeared in ''Mañana me mato'' (1935), by Pérez Fernández, and in 1937 she starred in ''Electra'', by Benito Pérez Galdós at the Teatro Español. After the Spanish Civil War she returned to her career and in 1940 premiered Clara Boothe's ''Mujeres''. Shortly after, she joined Irene López Heredia's company, with whom she played ''Sut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Blanch
Jaime Blanch Montijano (born 1940) is a Spanish film and television actor.Goble p.90 Selected filmography * ''I Was a Parish Priest'' (1953) * ''Jeromin'' (1953) * ''An Andalusian Gentleman'' (1954) * '' An Angel Has Arrived'' (1961) * ''La gran familia'' (1962) * ''Como dos gotas de agua'' (1963) * ''Pedrito de Andía's New Life'' (1965) * '' Forget the Drums'' (1975) * ''The Day of the Beast'' (1995) * ''El Ministerio del Tiempo ''El ministerio del tiempo'' (English title: ''The Ministry of Time'') is a Spanish fantasy television series created by Javier and Pablo Olivares and produced by Onza Partners and Cliffhanger for Televisión Española (TVE). It premiered on 24 ...'' (2015- ) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1940 births Living people Spanish male television actors Spanish male film actors People from Madrid 20th-century Spanish male actors 21st- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacinto Benavente
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922 "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama". Biography Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics. A liberal monarchist and a critic of socialism, he was a reluctant supporter of Francoist Spain as the only viable alternative to what he considered the disastrous republican experiment of 1931–1936. In 1936 Benavente's name became associated with the assassination of the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca. This happened when the Nationalist newspapers ''Estampa'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Actresses
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Basilio Martín Patino
Basilio Martín Patino (29 October 1930, in Lumbrales, Salamanca Province – 13 August 2017, in Madrid) was a Spanish film director, specializing in a creative approach to documentary works. Patino produced pieces on the Spanish Civil War (''Canciones para después de una guerra''), the famous dictator (''Caudillo''), or his executioners (''Queridísimos verdugos''). He also produced fiction (''Nueve cartas a Berta'', ''Octavia''). Patino often experimented with new technologies, including digital tools, 3D, and offline editing. In 1977, he was a member of the jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2005, he received the Gold Medal from the Spanish Academy of Cinema. Filmography *''El noveno'' (1960) *''Torerillos, 61'' (1962) *''Nueve cartas a Berta'' (1966) * ''Love and Other Solitudes'' (1969) *''Paseo por los letreros de Madrid'' (1968) with J. L. García Sánchez *''Canciones para después de una guerra'' (1971) *''Queridísimos verdugos'' (1973) *''Caudil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery ''The Mousetrap'', which has been performed in the West End since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. ''Guinness World Records'' lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frisch (; 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the 1965 Jerusalem Prize, the 1973 Grand Schiller Prize, and the 1986 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Biography Early years Frisch was born in 1911 in Zürich, Switzerland, the second son of Franz Bruno Frisch, an architect, and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). He had a sister, Emma (1899–1972), his father's daughter by a previous marriage, and a brother, Franz, eight years his senior (1903–1978). The family lived modestly, their financial situation deteriorating after the father lost his job during the First World War. Frisch had an emotionally distant relationship with his father, but was close to his mother. While at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florinda Chico
Florinda Chico Martín-Mora MML (24 April 1926 – 19 February 2011) was a Spanish actress of film, theater and television. Biography Florinda Chico Martín-Mora was born in 1926 in Don Benito (Badajoz) in Extremadura, Spain. She studied singing and then started her artistic career on the stage acting in musical revues. Her first successes were ''El huevo'' and the revue ''La blanca doble'' (1947) with the comedian trio Zori, Santos y Codeso. Although she made her debut on cinema in 1953 with the movie ''Pasaporte para un ángel'' it wasn't until the late 1960s that she became famous in Spain. She often played the roles of feisty, fleshy housewife or grumpy maid. She worked with director Mariano Ozores in almost two dozen films. She also appeared in such dramas as ''Cría cuervos'' (1976) and ''La casa de Bernarda Alba'' (1987). She was also a regular on such television series as '' La tía de Ambrosio'' (1971), '' Los maniáticos'' (1974), '' Este señor de negro'' (1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Turner (dramatist)
David Turner (18 March 1927 – 11 December 1990) was a British playwright. Turner was born in Birmingham and came from a working-class background. He studied French at University of Birmingham, Birmingham University and later worked as a school teacher in that city. He is best remembered for his stage play ''Semi-Detached (play), Semi-Detached'', first performed during 1962, which reached Broadway theatre, Broadway and was adapted for the film ''All the Way Up (film), All the Way Up'' (1970). He prepared modern versions of classic plays including John Gay's ''The Beggar's Opera'', a version seen in London in 1968, and ''The Miser'' by Molière, which was performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham Rep in 1973. An early opponent of the 'Clean-Up TV' founder Mary Whitehouse, Turner interrupted the initial meeting at Birmingham Town Hall in April 1964 as an audience member. At this event, which first brought Mrs Whitehouse to national attention, he accused her of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Alonso
Rafael Alonso Ochoa (5 July 1920 – 24 October 1998) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than 120 films and television shows between 1951 and 1998. Selected filmography * ''Malibran's Song'' (1951) * ''Welcome Mr. Marshall!'' (1953) * ''Cabaret'' (1953) * '' Esa pareja feliz'' (1953) * ''Comedians'' (1954) * '' El baile'' (1959) * ''Mi calle'' (1960) * ''My Wedding Night'' (1961) * ''The Mustard Grain'' (1962) * ''Tomy's Secret'' (1963) * ''He's My Man!'' (1966) * ''Sor Citroën'' (1967) * ''The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself'' (1970) * ''Variety'' (1971) * ''The Doubt'' (1972) * '' The Guerrilla'' (1973) * ''Zorrita Martinez'' (1975) * '' Unmarried Mothers'' (1975) * '' La colmena'' (1982) * '' All Is Possible in Granada'' (1982) * ''On the Far Side of the Tunnel ''On the Far Side of the Tunnel'' ( es, Al otro lado del túnel) is a 1994 Spanish drama film directed by Jaime de Armiñán. It was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Raf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Ignacio Luca De Tena, 2nd Marquis Of Luca De Tena
Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena y García de Torres, 2nd Marquis of Luca de Tena (Madrid, 23 October 1897 – 11 January 1975) was a Spanish politician, diplomat, journalist and playwright. Career Luca de Tena was Member of the Cortes (1958–64) and Ambassador of Spain to Chile (1940–44) and to Greece (1961–62). Personal life His son was the journalist Guillermo Luca de Tena. His daughter, María Victoria Luca de Tena, was married to Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta, a businessman and journalist. Awards and decorations * Cross of Military Merit * Campaign medal for the Civil War * Order of Merit of the German Eagle * Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Chile) The Order of Merit ( es, link=no, Orden al Mérito) is a Chilean order and was created in 1929. Succeeding the Medal of the Merit, which was created during the term of the President Germán Riesco through the Minister of War decree No. 1350 on ... * Grand Cross of the Order of Juan Pablo Duarte (Dominican Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish Spanish Realist literature, realist novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. Pérez Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 ''Episodios Nacionales'' (''National Episodes''), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and is considered as equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Some of his works have been translated into English, as he has slowly become popular in the Anglophone world. While his plays are generally considered to be less successful than his novels, ''Realidad'' (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre. The Pérez Galdós museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria features a portrait of the writer by Joaquín Sorolla. He came to be nominated for the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Pemán
José María Pemán y Pemartín (8 May 1897 in Cadiz – 19 July 1981, Ibid.) was a Spanish journalist, poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and monarchist intellectual. Biography Originally a student of law, he entered the literary world with a series of poetic works inspired by his native Andalusia (''De la vida sencilla'', ''A la rueda, rueda'', ''El barrio de Santa Cruz'', and ''Las flores del bien''). In the 1930s he became a journalist. In 1935 he joined the Real Academia de la Lengua, of which he was the director from 1939 to 1940 and 1944 to 1947. Pemán often blurred literary genres, and developed a unique style that may be described as equidistant between classicism and modernism, not unfamiliar to readers of ''ABC'' and ''El Alcázar''. As a dramatist, he wrote historical-religious verse (''El divino impaciente'' and ''Cuando las Cortes de Cádiz y Cisneros''), plays based on Andalusian themes (''Noche de levante en calma''), and comical costume dramas ('' Julieta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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