Evita Peron (TV 1981)

Director:

Marvin J. Chomsky

Writers:

John Barnes (book), Nicholas Frazer (book),

Stars:

Faye Dunaway, James Farentino, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Faye Dunaway	...	Eva 'Evita' Duarte Peron
James Farentino	...	Gen. Juan Peron
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.	...	Cypriano Reyes
Michael Constantine	...	Jaime Yankelevich
Signe Hasso	...	Fedora
Katy Jurado	...	Doña Juana
Jeremy Kemp	...	German official
John Van Dreelen	...	Capt. von Weber
Robert Viharo	...	Juan Duarte
Kai Wulff	...	Lt .Frick
Rita Moreno	...	Renata Riguel
José Ferrer	...	Agustin Magaldi
Peter Bromilow	...	Capt. Gayado
Jon Cypher	...	Col. Imbert
Severn Darden	...	Alfredo Suero

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on book | based on true story | character name in title

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Genres:

Drama | History

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 February 1981 (USA)

Also Known As:

Evita Peron: I zoi mou

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hartwest Productions, Zephyr Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

200 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Rita Moreno's character of Renata Riguel is based on the famous Argentine actress/singer Libertad Lamarque, who was rumored to have been at war with the real Eva Perón back when the latter pursued an acting career in the early to mid 1940s. Lamarque later went into self-imposed exile in Mexico after Eva became the First Lady of Argentina in 1945.

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Goofs

The real Augustin Magaldi died when he was only 39, so he would be only in his mid-thirties when the story takes place. He also toured with his own guitar and never had a back-up band and tacky background dancers.

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Connections

Referenced in Tootsie (1982)

User Reviews

Cry for this one, Argentina

As one who has a long-standing interest in the Peron regime, I really looked forward to the release of movie on television. I found it a big disappointment, mostly due to a bad script. It was a pastiche of scenes based on the biographies available at the time, one of which was the notoriously slanted and inaccurate Woman with the Whip. One particularly bad segment showed the Signe Hasso character who had helped Evita as a young actress. When she (Hasso) meets her (Peron) later after she is in power she refuses to take money from her, and gratuitously insults her, ending up in a jail cell. The point of the scene was that Evita was a vindictive woman (she was) who turned on those who had once been her friends (she did), but the scene as presented was pointless and contrived. Another egregious error had Peron running for president against Farrell (he did not - Farrell was his friend). It would be like having a movie about Nixon where he ran for president against Eisenhower. One thing that was interesting is that both Signe Hasso and Jose Ferrer were in the movie, and in the 1950 film Crisis they played a South American dictatorial couple who many thought more than superficially resembled the Perons. Just an interesting (to me) coincidence.