''It's Not Enough to Be a Charro'' (Spanish: ''No basta ser charro'') is a 1946 Mexican

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directed by

Juan Bustillo Oro Juan Bustillo Oro (2 June 1904 – 10 June 1989) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned over 38 years. Among his works there are ''In the Times of Don Porfirio'', ''Here's the Point'', ''Arm in Arm Down the ...

and starring

Jorge Negrete Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno (; 30 November 1911 – 5 December 1953) was a Mexican singer and actor. He specialized in the musical genre of ranchera. His posthumous album "Fiesta Mexicana Volumen II" has been ranked by critics at No. 163 on t ...

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and Armando Soto La Marina. Riera p.56 It was shot at the Clasa Studios in

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Vicente Petit. It was part of the tradition of

Ranchera Ranchera () or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional fo ...

films, popular during the

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Cast

as Ramón Blanquet / Jorge Negrete *

as Marta * Armando Soto La Marina as Refugio * Eugenia Galindo as Tía Tula *

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as Don Antonio *

Antonio R. Frausto Antonio R. Frausto (20 September 1897 – 29 January 1954) was a Mexican film actor.Mora p.39 A leading character actor he became a familiar face during the Golden age of Mexican cinema, appearing more than ninety films. He played the nineteenth c ...

as Prospero, veterinario * Trío Calaveras as Cantantes * Trío Ascensio del Rio as Cantantes * Trío Ruiz Armengol as Cantantes * Hermanas Ruelas as Cantantes * Cuarteto Melódico as Cantantes *

Alfonso Bedoya Benito Alfonso Bedoya y Díaz de GuzmánSan Antonio Light, Dec. 17, 1957, p. 20 (April 16, 1904 – December 15, 1957) was a Mexican actor who frequently appeared in U.S. films. He is best known for his role in ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' ...

as Peón * Carmelita González as Espectadora programa de radio

References

Bibliography

* Avila, Jaqueline. ''Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro''. Oxford University Press, 2019. * Riera, Emilio García. ''Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1945''. Ediciones Era, 1969.

External links

* 1946 films 1946 comedy films Mexican comedy films 1946 musical films Mexican musical films 1940s Spanish-language films Films directed by Juan Bustillo Oro Mexican black-and-white films 1940s Mexican films {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub