''The Unloved Woman'' (Spanish:''La malquerida'') is a 1940 Spanish

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

José López Rubio José López Rubio y Herreros (13 December 1903 in Motril, Granada Province – 2 March 1996) was a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, theatre historian and humorist. Rubio y Herreros worked in Hollywood as a songwriter for Pa ...

. It is based on the 1913 play of the same title by

Jacinto Benavente Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922 "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious ...

Synopsis

Doña Raimunda and her daughter Acacia live in the El Soto hacienda. After becoming a widow, Raimunda contracted new marriages with Esteban, who is secretly in love with Acacia, who hates him. Esteban will try to get rid of all the men who court Acacia.

Cast

* Antonio Armet as El Rubio * Társila Criado as Raimunda *

Manolo Morán Manolo Morán (30 December 1905, in Madrid – 27 April 1967, in Alicante) was a Spanish film actor. Selected filmography * ''Carmen fra i rossi'' (1939) - Il capitano Salmeron * ''El huésped del sevillano'' (1940) * '' The Unloved Woman'' ( ...

as Pascual * Carlos Muñoz as Faustino *

Julio Peña Julio Peña (18 June 1912 - 27 July 1972) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1930 to 1972. He died on July 27, 1972 aged 60 at Cortijo Blanco in Marbella, where he was resting after appearing in the film ''Horror ...

as Norberto *

Luchy Soto Lucía Soto Muñoz (1919–1970), known professionally as Luchy Soto, was a Spanish film and television actress.D'Lugo p.261 She was the daughter of the actors Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro and Manuel Soto. She married actor Luis Peña in 1946. Ca ...

as Acacia *

Jesús Tordesillas Jesús Tordesillas Fernández (28 January 1893 – 24 March 1973) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in 94 films between 1921 and 1973. He starred in the film '' Reckless'' which was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. Selected ...

as Esteban *

Isabel de Pomés Isabel de Pomés (10 April 1924 – 31 May 2007) was a classic Spanish film actress and one of the leading ladies in Spanish cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in over 30 films between 1941 and 1965. Her father was the actor and sport ...

as Chica en balcón

References

Bibliography

* Labanyi, Jo & Pavlović, Tatjana. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

External links

* 1940 films 1940 drama films Spanish drama films 1940s Spanish-language films Spanish black-and-white films 1940s Spanish films {{1940s-Spain-film-stub