''Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tiendas'' is a

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directed by Manuel Romero. It stars Paulina Singerman,

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. The film is about the daughter of a millionaire store owner, who organizes a worker strike.

Plot

Paulina, the daughter of the millionaire owner of a store, becomes employed at the store under an assumed name. She investigates the injustices of the workers and leads a strike, forcing her father and the store operators to bring about improvements in working conditions.

Cast

* Paulina Singerman *

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* Juan Gamboa * Fernando Campos

Themes

The film has been compared to other film of the period including ''

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'' (1938), '' Isabelita'' (1940), sharing the common theme of "a spoiled young woman holearns both the value of hard work and the capacity to care for others under the tutelage of working class characters". Central to the film is the union protest, which has been described as being "quite complex", "summarized in a sequence quite clearly through a series of images

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passionate speakers". The speech where Elvira Fernandez anticipates selling her store involuntarily was later used in propaganda films of Peron.

Reception

The ''

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'' wrote that it "excellently managed the strike movement ... There are effective comic passages throughout the film", while ''

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'' praised the cinematography. Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela in their book ''Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995)'' wrote: "...a social issue in the service of comedy. Another one of Romero's vehicles for Singerman, it would be interesting to rediscover how he crosses fun with reality."

References

Sources cited

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elvira Fernandez, Vendedora De Tiendas 1942 films 1942 comedy films Argentine comedy films 1940s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films Films directed by Manuel Romero