''Soledad's Shawl'' (Spanish: ''El rebozo de Soledad'') is a 1952 Mexican western film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring

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, Pedro Armendáriz, and Estela Inda.Segre p.225 The film's sets were designed by the

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. In the film, a doctor moves to a poor rural area where he falls in love with a peasant girl.

Cast

as Dr. Alberto Robles * Pedro Armendáriz as Roque Suazo * Estela Inda as Soledad * Domingo Soler as Father Juan *

Carlos López Moctezuma Carlos López Moctezuma Pineda (19 November 1909 – 14 July 1980) was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in more than 210 films between 1938 and 1980. He starred in the film ''Happiness'', which was entered into the 7th Berlin Internationa ...

as David Acosta * Jaime Fernández as Mauro *

Rosaura Revueltas Rosaura Revueltas Sánchez (August 6, 1910 – April 30, 1996) was a Mexican actress of screen and stage, and a dancer, author and teacher. Early life Rosaura Revueltas was born in Lerdo, Durango, Mexico to the famously artistic Revueltas famil ...

as Mother of baby * Manuel Arvide as Doctor *

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as Doctor *

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* Lupe Carriles as Receptionist * Felipe de Flores * Norma Giménez * Gilberto González *

Francisco Jambrina Francisco Jambrina Campos (December 3, 1902 – January 21, 1967) was a Spanish-born Mexican film actor.Kohner p.355 Selected filmography * ''Simón Bolívar'' (1942) * ''Michael Strogoff'' (1944) * ''Twilight'' (1945) * ''Fly Away, Young Man!' ...

as Alfonso Gómez Ugarte *

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* Mario Jiménez * José María Linares-Rivas as Doctor * José Muñoz *

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as La novia * Yolanda Nieto *

Juan Orraca ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

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* Hernán Vera as Mayor

References

Bibliography

* Erica Segre. ''Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualisation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Mexican Culture''. Berghahn Books, 2007.

External links

* 1952 films 1952 Western (genre) films Mexican Western (genre) films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Roberto Gavaldón Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub