''Cradle Song'' ( es, Canción de cuna) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by

Fernando de Fuentes Fernando de Fuentes Carrau (December 12, 1894 – July 4, 1958) was a Mexican film director, considered a pioneer in the film industry worldwide. He is perhaps best known for directing the films ''El prisionero trece'', ''El compadre Mendoza'', an ...

Plot

The daughter of a prostitute is abandoned in a convent where a nun cares for her, as she asks to not be taken to an hospice.

Cast

María Elena Marqués María Elena Marqués Rangel (14 December 1926 – 11 November 2008) was a Mexican actress and singer who was a star during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography She was born on December 14, 1926 in Mexico City. She wa ...

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Verónica Loyo Verónica Loyo is a Mexican singer and actress. Partial discography * ''Aires de la provincia'' (Dimsa DML-8107) Filmography * ''Los hijos de María Morales'' (1952) * '' Canción de cuna'' (1953) * ''Ahí vienen los gorrones'' (1953) * '' R ...

* Beatriz Ramos * Josefina Leiner * Marcela Quevedo

Reception

In ''Historia mínima. La cultura mexicana en el siglo XX'', Carlos Monsiváis cites the film when describing what he considers a decline in the career of director

: "The decline is incomprehensible: how is the director of ''

Godfather Mendoza ''Godfather Mendoza'' (Spanish: ''El compadre Mendoza'') is a 1934 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes, and is the second of his '' Revolution Trilogy'', preceded by '' El prisionero trece'' and followed by '' Vámonos con Panch ...

'' capable of committing monstrosities like ''Cradle Song'' (1953) and ''

The Children of Maria Morales ''The Children of Maria Morales'' (Spanish: "Los hijos de María Morales") is a 1952 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes. Cast * Pedro Infante - José Morales * Antonio Badú - Luis Morales * Emma Roldán - María Morales * Carm ...

'' (1952)? Is it the exhaustion of a director or the crushing effect of an industry that allows neither rest nor the aesthetic ambitions of its creators?" In ''Historia del cine mexicano'', Emilio García Riera quotes the film together with ''Sor Alegría'' (1952) as films that "were about compliant, happy, and heavily made-up nuns."

References

External links

* 1953 films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Fernando de Fuentes Mexican films based on plays Mexican drama films 1953 drama films Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub