''The Dance'' (Spanish: ''El baile'') is a 1959
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comedy-drama film written and directed by
Edgar Neville
Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero (28 December 1899 – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the "other" Generation of '27.
Biography
Neville was born in Madrid but lived in Hollywood, Los Angel ...
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[Mira p.225] It is based on his own theatrical play, ''El baile'', released in (1952), which won the Spanish
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award.
It was the second and last color film directed by Neville after ''
Duende y misterio del flamenco''.
Plot
Pedro (Alberto Closas) and Julián (Rafael Alonso) are friends and they love the same woman, Adela (Conchita Montes). Madrid, 1905, Pedro and Adela had gotten married but Julian live with them. 1930. Adela discovers she is going to die and the two men had hidden the illness. 1955. Adelita (Conchita Montes), Adela's grand daughter, visits to the two men and they remember their love to Adele.
Cast
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Conchita Montes
Conchita Montes (13 March 1914 – 18 October 1994) was a Spanish film actress.
Career
Born in Madrid, Montes became a popular actress in Spanish films of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1950 she starred in '' El último caballo''
an Edgar Neville fil ...
as Adela / Adelita
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Alberto Closas
Alberto Closas Lluró (30 October 1921, in Barcelona – 19 September 1994, in Madrid) was a prolific Spanish film actor who appeared in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s and in Spanish cinema after 1955.
His family emigrated to ...
as Pedro
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Rafael Alonso
Rafael Alonso Ochoa (5 July 1920 – 24 October 1998) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than 120 films and television shows between 1951 and 1998.
Selected filmography
* ''Malibran's Song'' (1951)
* ''Welcome Mr. Marshall!'' (1953) ...
as Julián
References
Bibliography
* Mira, Alberto. ''The A to Z of Spanish Cinema''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
External links
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1959 films
1950s historical comedy-drama films
Spanish historical comedy-drama films
1950s Spanish-language films
Spain in fiction
Madrid in fiction
Films directed by Edgar Neville
1950s Spanish films
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