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Caribbean Enchantment
''Caribbean Enchantment'' (Spanish: ''Embrujo antillano'') is a 1947 Mexican musical drama film directed and co-written by Juan Orol and starring María Antonieta Pons, Ramón Armengod and Blanquita Amaro.Osuna p.30 The film's sets were designed by the art director Martín Domínguez. Plot A young girl tired of working in the cultivation of tobacco with her father in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, decides to go to Havana to try her luck, but after several setbacks ends up working in a tobacco factory. In this place, she falls in love with one of the owners of the factory, a young man newly arrived in the country after years of study abroad. But this young man was engaged to the daughter of her partner, and here begins a struggle between the two women, which leads to an unexpected ending. Cast * María Antonieta Pons as Caridad * Ramón Armengod as Ramiro * Blanquita Amaro as Ana María * Federico Piñero as Bonifacio * Alberto Garrido as Bolerito * Carlos Badías as Ñico * Sergio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Orol
Juan Rogelio García García (August 4, 1897 – May 26, 1988), better known as Juan Orol, was a Spanish-born Mexican actor, film producer, director and screenwriter. Orol was a pioneer of the Mexican cinema's first talkies and one of the main promoters of the Rumberas film in the ''Golden Age of Mexican cinema''. His films have been described as cult films. Biography Early life Juan Rogelio García García was born on August 4, 1897, in the parish of Santiso, in the town of Lalín, Lalin in Pontevedra, Spain. His father was a commander of the Spanish armed forces. His mother, a woman of peasant origin, was a single mother. Later, she married a man who didn't want to take care of another man's son, so she sent Orol to Cuba to live with a friend. In Cuba, Orol lived in the low neighborhoods, known in Cuba as "solares". There, he had a lot of contact with people of African origin, who taught him all his dance techniques. Young Orol had many occupations at the same time: boxer, mec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |