''Don't Fool Yourself Dear'' (Spanish: ''No te engañes corazón'') is a 1937 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by

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and starring

Carlos Orellana Carlos Orellana Martínez (28 December 1900 in Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo – 24 January 1960 in Mexico City) was a Mexican actor, film director and screenwriter. Filmography As actor *1932: ''Santa (1932 film), Santa'' - Hipólito *1933: ...

. It is the first full-feature film of Mexican comedian

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after becoming a star of the

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circuit (folk theater).Cantinflas
at

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"Cantinflas: El Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hide mexicano" ("Cantinflas: the Mexican Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
''Periódico La Voz'' (Coahuila, México). Accessed 2 November 2021. It was also one of the earliest films of Orellana and

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and the first where they share the screen. This film was released in

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format on October 26, 2004.

Plot

Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.

Cast

as Don Bonifacio "Boni" Bonafé *

as Doña Petronila "Petro" (as Sarah Garcia) *

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as Consuelito * Eusebio Pirrín as Friend of Canti (as Don Catarino) *

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as Don Gregorio "Goyo" Vidal *

as Canti * Carmen Molina as Carmencita *

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as Señor Rebolledo *

Carlos Villatoro Carlos Humberto Villatoro Escobedo, known as Carlos Villatoro (14 January 1903 – 14 March 1963) was a Mexican screenwriter and film actor.Riera, p. 220 Selected filmography * ''Dos Monjes'' (1934) * '' Dreams of Love'' (1935) * ''Luponini ...

as Alfredo *

Manuel Buendía Manuel Buendía Tellezgirón (24 May 1926 – 30 May 1984) was a Mexican journalist and political columnist who last worked for the daily ''Excélsior'', one of the most-read newspapers in Mexico City. His direct reporting style in his colum ...

as Señor Palomares *

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as Friend of Goyo (as G. del Castillo) *

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as Lady Student (uncredited) *

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as Señor Monforte, landlord (uncredited) *

Ismael Rodríguez Ismael Rodríguez (October 19, 1917 – August 7, 2004) was a Mexican film director. Rodríguez rose to fame due to the movies he directed starring Pedro Infante, and directed many major stars, including Dolores del Río, María Félix, To ...

as Office Worker (uncredited) *

Fanny Schiller Fanny Schiller Hernández (3 August 1901 – 26 September 1971) was a Mexican award-winning character actress and television star, who also acted in operettas and musicals, during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She won two Ariel Awards for bes ...

as Refugio (uncredited) *

Estanislao Shilinsky Estanislao Schillinsky Bachanska (10 August 1911 – 27 September 1985), known as Estanislao Shilinsky or simply Shilinsky, was a Lithuanian-born Mexican comedian and the half of the 1940–1970 comedy duo '' Manolín y Shilinsky'' with ("Manolí ...

as Restaurant Client (uncredited) *

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as Waiter (uncredited)

Critical reception

Introducing an analysis of Cantinflas' career, essayist

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refers to the actor's performance in this picture as "his disregarded debut in an inauspicious film."Carlos Monciváis. "Cantinflas and Tin Tan: Mexico's greatest comedians," ''Mexico's cinema: a history of film and filmmakers'' (Joanne Hirshfield and David R. Maciel, Eds.), Scholarly Resources: Wilmington, DE, 1999, p. 55.

References

External links

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