Doña Francisquita (1952)

Director:

Ladislao Vajda

Writers:

José Luis Colina, Guillermo Fernández Shaw (play),

Stars:

Mirtha Legrand, Armando Calvo, Antonio Casal

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview:
Mirtha Legrand	...	Doña Francisquita
Armando Calvo	...	Fernando
Antonio Casal	...	Cardona
Manolo Morán	...	Lorenzo
Emma Penella	...	Aurora 'La Beltrana'
Julia Lajos	...	Doña Francisca
José Isbert	...	Maestro Lambertini
Jesús Tordesillas	...	Don Matías

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on zarzuela | based on play

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Genres:

Comedy | Musical

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Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

16 June 1954 (Portugal)

Also Known As:

Mascarade d'amour

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 64,085 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Producciones Benito Perojo

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

Songs Performed by Marimí del Pozo and Lily Bergman

User Reviews

Interesting film version of the Zarzuela.

"Francisquita",( Mirtha Legrand), loves to "Fernando" (Armando Calvo), in secret, but he has fallen in love with another woman, "Aurora La Beltrana" (Emma Penella), a temperamental girl of Madrid, accustomed to flirt with many men. Of the life of "Fernando" is very learned his good friend "Cardona" (Antonio Casal), which decides help "Francisquita", increasing the entanglement increasingly.

The great director Vajda offers us this film with a great security very usual in him, seeking an item lyrical music, as constitute adaptations of works created for the stage, of the Zarzuela Amadeo Vives and Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernandez Shaw, and of the comedy of Joaquín Calvo Sotelo.

We have to admire the laborious work that the scriptwriters Jose Santugini and Jose Luis Colina made with the booklet that has been widely recognized and puts the adaptation as one of the most interesting versions films of the genus lyric Spanish.

Splendid cast of actors with Manolo Morán, Julia Lajos, Antonio Casal, Enma Penella, Jose Isbert, Antonio Riquelme, Armando Calvo… that enhances and encourages the vision of this film, realized with a technical indigenous color "Cinefotocolor" of Daniel Aragonés, which puts high intensity in the colors, which mainly in the scenes end of the carnival reflects much beauty.