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La Niña De Luto
''The Girl in Mourning'' () is a 1964 Spanish comedy film directed by Manuel Summers. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Spanish entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * María José Alfonso - Rocío Vázquez Romero * Alfredo Landa - Rafael Castroviejo * Pilar Gómez Ferrer - Madre de Rocío * Vicente Llosa * José Vicente Cerrudo * Carmen Santonja * Doris Kent - (as Doris Ken) * Mercedes Huete * Manuel Ayuso * Manuel Guitián - (as Manuel Guitian) * Salvador Cortés * Emilio García Domenech - (as Emilio G. Domenech) * Diego Rañón * Francisco Summers * Pascual Costafreda - (as Pascual de Costafreda) See also * List of submissions to the 37th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Summers
Manuel Summers Rivero (26 March 1935 – 12 June 1993) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. Biography Summers was born in Seville, to a father of English origin. His mother was from Spain. His father, Francisco Summers e Isern (1902–1990), was a Francoist lawyer who served as civil governor of the provinces of Huelva in 1952–1956 and of Granada in 1956–1960. Manuel had two brothers, Francisco (born 1933) and Guillermo (born 1941), both journalists. Summers moved to Madrid at a young age, where he worked as a journalist and caricaturist before enrolling as a student at Madrid's Institute for Cinematographic Sciences in 1957. He graduated from the institute with a diploma in 1959. Summers' earlier films, such as '' Del rosa al amarillo'' (1963) and '' La niña de luto'' (1964), have been described as bittersweet comedies with satirical undertones, and can be situated as examples of the " new Spanish cinema" of the 1960s. Problems with censorship and lack of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |