Amor de la calle (''Love Street'') is a 1950 Mexican
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by Ernesto Cortazar and starring
Meche Barba
Meche Barba (born Mercedes Barba Feito; September 24, 1922 – January 14, 2000) was an American-born Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered one of the icons of the "Rumbera ...
and
Fernando Fernández.
Plot
''El Pichi'' (
Freddy Fernández) and other street children collect a ticket that has fallen from Fernando ''El Calavera'' (
Fernando Fernández), which prevents stop them and offers them a job in his place of tortas in the neighborhood of
La Lagunilla Market
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in
Mexico City
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. Fernando knows Queta (
Meche Barba
Meche Barba (born Mercedes Barba Feito; September 24, 1922 – January 14, 2000) was an American-born Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered one of the icons of the "Rumbera ...
), the sister of ''El Pichi'', and both are attracted. This will lead to Fernando namely the hardness of life of people in the suburbs. Queta have to fight against the fate, which forces her to work in a cabaret with the nickname of ''Cariño''.
Cast
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Meche Barba
Meche Barba (born Mercedes Barba Feito; September 24, 1922 – January 14, 2000) was an American-born Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered one of the icons of the "Rumbera ...
as Queta / Cariño
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Fernando Fernández as Fernando ''El Calavera''
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Freddy Fernández) as El Pichi
* Esther Luquín as Mona
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Los Panchos
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Toña la Negra
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Reviews
With great images of American cinematographer Jack Draper, Manuel Esperon songs and musical interventions of Los Panchos and Tona la Negra, Meche Barba gets a great job on ''Amor de la calle'', with Fernando Fernández to restart a long period as her film partner. The success of the film, led to a sequel filmed the same year: ''
Si fuera una cualquiera
''If I Were Just Anyone'' (Spanish: ''Si fuera una cualquiera'') is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Cortázar and starring Meche Barba and Fernando Fernández. The film is the sequel to the film ''Love Street''.
Plot
Fernando ( Fern ...
'' (''If I Were a Any''), also directed by Cortázar.
References
External links
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''Amor de la calle in FilmAffinity''
1950 films
Mexican black-and-white films
Rumberas films
1950s Spanish-language films
Mexican drama films
1950 drama films
1950s Mexican films
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