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Flor De Caña
''Flor de caña'' ("Sugarcane Flower") is a 1948 Mexican film. It was written by Luis Alcoriza Luis Alcoriza de la Vega (September 5, 1918 – December 3, 1992) was a respected Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor. Alcoriza was born in Spain and, exiled because of the Spanish Civil War, established himself in Mexico from 1940 .... External links * 1948 films 1940s Spanish-language films Mexican black-and-white films Films scored by Manuel Esperón Mexican drama films 1948 drama films 1940s Mexican films {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Orellana
Carlos Orellana Martínez (28 December 1900 in Hidalgo – 24 January 1960 in Mexico City) was a Mexican actor, film director and screenwriter. Filmography As actor *1932: ''Santa'' - Hipólito *1933: '' El anónimo'' - Médico *1933: ''La llorona'' - Mario - criado *1933: '' La noche del pecado'' *1934: '' Juárez y Maximiliano'' - Doctor Basch *1937: '' No te engañes corazón'' - Don Boni(facio) Bonafé *1937: ''La Paloma'' - Coronel Refugio Romero *1937: '' No basta ser madre'' *1938: '' Sucedió en La Habana'' *1938: '' El Rosario de Amozoc'' - Odilón *1938: ''El romance del palmar'' *1939: ''El capitán aventurero'' - Sgt. Carrasquilla *1939: '' El hotel de los chiflados'' - Administrador *1939: ''En un burro tres baturros'' - Santiago Míguez *1939: '' Calumnia'' - Dr. Pietro *1939: '' Mujeres y toros'' *1939: ''El signo de la muerte'' - Dr. Gallardo *1940: '' Pobre diablo'' - Ponciano Luque *1940: '' La canción del milagro'' - Isaac *1940: '' Miente y serás fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Alcoriza
Luis Alcoriza de la Vega (September 5, 1918 – December 3, 1992) was a respected Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor. Alcoriza was born in Spain and, exiled because of the Spanish Civil War, established himself in Mexico from 1940. His 1962 film ''Tlayucan'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1987 film ''Life Is Most Important'' was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. Filmography Screenwriter * 1946 : ''El ahijado de la muerte'' * 1947 : '' Una extraña mujer'' * 1948 : '' Nocturno de amor'' * 1948 : '' Enrédate y verás'' * 1948 : ''Flor de caña'' * 1949 : '' Negra consentida'' * 1949 : ''Los amores de una viuda'' * 1949 : ''El gran calavera'' * 1949 : ''Un cuerpo de mujer'' * 1950 : '' Tú, solo tú'' * 1950 : ''La liga de las muchachas'' * 1950 : ''Hipólito el de Santa'' * 1950 : ''Mala hembra'' * 1950 : ''Si me viera don Porfirio'' * 1950 : ''Huellas del pasado'' * 1950 : ''Los olvidados'' * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Alcoriza
Janet Alcoriza (born Janet Riesenfeld; January 4, 1918 – November 12, 1998), also known as Raquel Rojas, was an American screenwriter and actress of Austrian and Scotch-Irish descent who spent most of her career in Mexico. She contributed to more than 50 films from 1945 to 1987, and early in her career was associated with Luis Buñuel. Biography Her father, Vienna-born composer Hugo Riesenfeld, emigrated to the United States in 1907, where he met and married Mabel Dunning. The couple had Janet in 1918 in New York City. When she was a girl, she fell in love with acting when she observed performances at the theater her father operated. She took lessons from her father's dancing teacher, and she later spent time in Mexico and Spain, which aided her in becoming fluent in Spanish. She later wrote about her experiences in Spain (which was at war at the time) in an autobiographical book. Janet was married to Mexican screenwriter and director Luis Alcoriza. Selected filmography As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Antonieta Pons
Maria Antonieta Pons (November 6, 1922 in Havana, Cuba – August 20, 2004 in Mexico City) was a Cuban-born Mexican film actress and dancer. She was the first actress in the ''Rumberas films'' in the 1940s and 1950s, in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Career María Antonieta Pons began her career as a dancer in Cuba in numerous theaters and night clubs. When she was 16, she met Spanish actor and film director Juan Orol, who became her partner in various dance competitions on the island. After becoming Orol's wife, he took her to Mexico so she could act in films. María Antonieta Pons debuted in the Cinema of Mexico in the film '' Siboney'' (1938). After her debut in this film, Maria Antonieta performed with Orol in international dance tours in the United States, particularly in New York and Chicago. Towards the end of 1943, Pons returned to film, invited by the producer Guillermo Calderon to act in the film ''Noches de ronda'', along with the actors Susana Guizar and Ramon Arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Víctor Manuel Mendoza (1913–1995) was a Mexican film actor.Agrasánchez, Jr. p.159 Selected filmography * ''Almas rebeldes'' (1937) * ''Ojos tapatios'' (1938) - Carlos * ''Los bandidos de Río Frío'' (1938) - Juan Robreño * '' While Mexico Sleeps'' (1938) * ''Pescadores de perlas'' (1938) - Ignacio * ''Sangre en las montañas'' (1938) * ''Alma norteña'' (1939) - Agustín * ''Rosa de Xochimilco'' (1939) - El marido * ''¡Ay Jalisco... no te rajes!'' (1941) - Felipe Carbajal * ''Águila roja'' (1942) - Víctor Reyes * '' Simón Bolívar'' (1942) - La Mar * ''Beautiful Michoacán'' (1943) - Roque * ''Santa'' (1943) - Marcelino * ''El ametralladora'' (1943) - Felipe Carvajal * '' Cuando habla el corazón'' (1943) - Cruz González * ''Los amores de un torero'' (1945) - Ernesto * ''Mulata de Córdoba'' (1945) * ''Recuerdos de mi valle'' (1946) * ''Pervertida'' (1946) - Humberto * ''Cuando lloran los valientes'' (1947) - Coronel José Luis Arteche * ''Los tres García'' (1947) - Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Esperón
Manuel Esperón González (August 3, 1911 – February 13, 2011) was a Mexican songwriter and composer."Biografía de Manuel Esperón González (Biography of Manuel Esperón González)" . Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México (SACM) (Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico). Along with the famous Mexican author Ernesto Cortazar, Esperón cowrote many songs for Mexican films, including "" for the 1941 film of the same name, "Cocula" for ''El Peñón de las Ánimas'' (''< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Phillips (cinematographer)
Alexander Pelepiock (January 11, 1900 – June 14, 1977) was a Canadian-born Mexican cinematographer known for working in over 200 films, most of them during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. His most well-known works include '' The Other One'' (1946), '' Desired'' (1951), ''En La Palma de Tu Mano'' (1952), and '' Untouched'' (1955). Throughout his career, he was nominated fourteen times for an Ariel Award for Best Cinematography which he won twice for ''En La Palma de Tu Mano'' and '' Untouched''. In 1973, Phillips was recognized with a Golden Ariel from the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences for his excellence and contributions to the Mexican film industry. He died on June 14, 1977, at the age of 76, due to CVST. Early life Phillips was born in Renfrew, Ontario. In his youth, his family moved to Russia, but he returned to Canada because of his dislike with the czarist government. He enlisted in the Canadian Army where he met Mary Pickford who introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Schoemann
Gloria Schoemann (1910–2006) was a Mexican film editor. Schoemann was very prolific, working on more than two hundred films during her career.Edwards p.150 Selected filmography * '' Another Dawn'' (1943) * ''Cantaclaro'' (1946) * ''Gran Casino'' (1946) * '' The Associate'' (1946) * '' Enamorada'' (1946) * ''Flor de caña'' (1948) * '' The Unloved Woman'' (1949) * ''Lola Casanova'' (1949) * ''Immaculate'' (1950) * ''Maria Islands'' (1951) * ''Captain Scarlett'' (1953) * '' Arm in Arm Down the Street'' (1956) * ''Where the Circle Ends'' (1956) * ''The Boxer "The Boxer" is a song written by Paul Simon and recorded by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their fifth studio album, '' Bridge over Troubled Water'' (1970). Produced by the duo and Roy Halee, it was released as a standalone sing ...'' (1958) References Bibliography * Edwards, Gwynne. ''A Companion to Luis Buñuel''. Tamesis Books, 2005. External links * 1910 births 2006 deaths Mexican film editors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |