''Cradle Song'' () is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by

Fernando de Fuentes Fernando de Fuentes Carrau (December 13, 1894 – July 4, 1958) was a Mexican film director, considered a pioneer in the film industry worldwide. He is perhaps best known for directing the films ''El prisionero trece'', ''El compadre Mendoza'', a ...

Plot

The daughter of a prostitute is abandoned in a convent where a nun cares for her, as she asks to not be taken to an hospice.

Cast

* María Elena Marqués * Carmelita González * Alma Delia Fuentes * Anita Blanch * César del Campo *

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Fernando Cortés Fernando "Papi" Cortés (October 4, 1909 – 1979) was a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican film actor, writer and director. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but he spent most of his adult life in Mexico City, where he died. In 1932, while in New Y ...

* Queta Lavat * Matilde Palou * Verónica Loyo * Beatriz Ramos * Josefina Leiner * Marcela Quevedo

Reception

In ''Historia mínima. La cultura mexicana en el siglo XX'', Carlos Monsiváis cites the film when describing what he considers a decline in the career of director

: "The decline is incomprehensible: how is the director of '' Godfather Mendoza'' capable of committing monstrosities like ''Cradle Song'' (1953) and '' The Children of Maria Morales'' (1952)? Is it the exhaustion of a director or the crushing effect of an industry that allows neither rest nor the aesthetic ambitions of its creators?" In ''Historia del cine mexicano'', Emilio García Riera quotes the film together with ''Sor Alegría'' (1952) as films that "were about compliant, happy, and heavily made-up nuns."

References

External links

* 1953 films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Fernando de Fuentes Mexican films based on plays Mexican drama films 1953 drama films Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films Films based on works by Gregorio Martínez Sierra {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub