Orange Blossom for Your Wedding
| Orange Blossom for Your Wedding | |
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| Directed by | Julián Soler |
| Written by | Julián Soler Mauricio Magdaleno |
| Based on | Such Is Life by Nicolás de las Llanderas and Arnaldo Malfatti |
| Produced by | Gregorio Walerstein |
| Starring | Fernando Soler Sara García Marga López |
| Cinematography | Agustín Martínez Solares |
| Edited by | Rafael Ceballos |
| Music by | Rosalío Ramírez Federico Ruiz |
Production company | Filmex |
| Distributed by | Clasa-Mohme |
Release date |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Orange Blossom for Your Wedding (Spanish: Azahares para tu boda) is a 1950 Mexican historical comedy drama film directed by Julián Soler and starring Fernando Soler, Sara García and Marga López.[1] It was shot at the Azteca Studios in Mexico City. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jorge Fernández. It is a remake of the 1939 Argentine film Such Is Life.[2]
Synopsis
[edit]It portrays a conservative middle-class family in the years before the Mexican Revolution onwards. The father forbids the marriage of his daughter Felicia to one of her suitors.
Cast
[edit]- Fernando Soler as Ernesto
- Sara García as Eloísa
- Joaquín Pardavé as Don Bodroz
- Marga López as Felicia
- Domingo Soler as Alberto
- Andrés Soler as Sr. Cabrera
- Fernando Soto as Rosendo
- Rodolfo Landa as Luis
- Hortensia Constance as Adela
- Margarita Cortés as Felipa
- Florencio Castelló as Amigo español del tendero
- Anabelle Gutiérrez as Margarita
- Antonio R. Frausto as Porfirio Díaz
- Freddy Fernández as Eduardo - young
- Joaquín Cordero as Eduardo - adult
- Eduardo Noriega as Carlos
- Silvia Pinal as Tota
- Queta Lavat as Nieta
- Nicolás Rodríguez as Tendero Español
- Lupe Carriles as Sirvienta fea
- Alfonso Zayas[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Stock p.232
- ^ Kelly Hopfenblatt, Alejandro (2015). "Aburguesamiento de los cines latinoamericanos: un estudio comparado de Así es la vida y Azahares para tu boda" (PDF). Revista Lindes (in Spanish) (9). Buenos Aires: Claudio Lobeto. ISSN 1853-5798. Retrieved 16 December 2022 – via CONICET.
- ^ "Falleció Alfonso Zayas, leyenda del 'cine de ficheras'". 9 July 2021.
Bibliography
[edit]- Amador, María Luisa. Cartelera cinematográfica, 1950-1959. UNAM, 1985.
- Stock, Anne Marie (ed.) Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
External links
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- 1950s Spanish-language films
- Mexican black-and-white films
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- Films set in the 1900s
- Films set in the 1910s
- Mexican historical films
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