''The Three Elenas'' (Spanish: ''Las tres Elenas'') is a 1954 Mexican

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directed by

Emilio Gómez Muriel Emilio Gómez Muriel was a prolific Mexican film director, active between the 1930s and the 1970s. He is known for melodramas,, accessed via JSTOR (subscription required) but one of his first films was ''Redes'' (release: 1936), an attempt at s ...

and starring

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, Manolo Fábregas, and

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.Riera p.119 The film's sets were designed by the

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Manuel Fontanals.

Cast

as Doña Elena Ugalde de Dueñas * Manolo Fábregas as Luis Araiza *

as Don Víctor Ugalde *

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as Manolo Dueñas *

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as Elena, nieta *

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as Doña Sofía * Jaime Fernández as Pablo *

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as María * Martha Valdés as Esther * Alicia Caro as Elena Dueñas, hija *

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as Cliente casa de juego *

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as Jugador * Jesús Gómez as Jugador *

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as Doctor *

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as Soledad, sirvienta *

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as Invitado a fiesta *

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as Abogado *

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as Olimpia

References

Bibliography

* Emilio García Riera. ''Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1953-1954''. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1997.

External links

* 1954 films 1954 drama films Mexican drama films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Emilio Gómez Muriel Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub