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Deseada
''Desired'' (Spanish: ''Deseada'') is a 1951 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Dolores del RÃo, Jorge Mistral and José Baviera.Bodeen p.294 It contains substantial footage shot in Yucatan, much of it in and around the Maya site of Chichen Itza. Cast * Dolores del RÃo as Deseada * Jorge Mistral as Manuel * José Baviera as Don Lorenzo * Anabelle Gutiérrez as Nicte * Arturo Soto Rangel as Don Anselmo * Enriqueta Reza as Quiteria * Héctor Herrera as El Casamentero * Wibeut Puerta as El Pintor * Don Chinto as El Chic * Rosario Gutiérrez as Rosario * E. Puga as El Alfarero * Nicolás Urcelay Nicolás Urcelay (20 December 1919 – 1 July 1959) was a Mexican singer. Selected filmography * '' Desired'' (1951) 1959 deaths 1919 births Mexican pianists 20th-century pianists Male pianists 20th-century Mexican male singers P ... as Invitado References Bibliography * DeWitt Bodeen. ''From Hollywood: The Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Hernández Moncada
Eduardo Hernández Moncada (September 24, 1899 – December 31, 1995) was a Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor. He is one of the essential musicians representative of the Nationalist Movement of the Post-Revolutionary years in Mexico. His music strives for a balance between modern influence and folk roots. His compositions include orchestral music, opera, ballet and film scores. Biography Born in Xalapa, Veracruz, son of a clarinetist. Hernández Moncada started piano lessons at an early age and at 19 moved to Mexico City to enter the National Conservatory. While still in school, he was hired to provide piano accompaniment to silent films playing at a local movie theater. In 1925 he married Teresa de Anda, an opera singer. While working in the movie theater, he met Carlos Chávez, and they began a long friendship. In 1929, Chávez invited Hernández to join the Mexican Symphony Orchestra as pianist, at the same time Silvestre Revueltas became assistant conductor. When Revue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Del RÃo
MarÃa de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete (3 August 1904 – 11 April 1983), known professionally as Dolores del RÃo (), was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood. Along with a notable career in American cinema during the 1920s and 1930s, she was also considered one of the most important female figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and one of the most beautiful actresses of her era. After being discovered in Mexico, she began her film career in Hollywood in 1925. She had roles on a string of successful films, including ''Resurrection'' (1927), '' Ramona'' (1928) and '' Evangeline'' (1929). Del RÃo came to be considered a sort of feminine version of Rudolph Valentino, a "female Latin Lover", in her years during the American " silent" era. With the advent of sound, she acted in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to musical comedies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enriqueta Reza
Enriqueta Reza (3 April 1893 – 17 September 1968) was a Mexican actress, performing during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She acted in a total of 67 films and won the Ariel Award for A Family Like Many Others ''A Family Like Many Others'' (Spanish: ''Una familia de tantas'') is a 1949 Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Fernando Soler, David Silva and Martha Roth.Hernandez-Rodriguez p.82 The film's sets were designed by the ... in 1950. Biography Enriqueta Reza was born on 3 April 1893. Her first cinema appearance was in 1943 in the movie ''Toros'', ''Amor'' y ''Gloria''. She acted in a total of 67 movies. In her youth she had established her own theater company and managed to create unforgettable characters for the Mexican scene. She won the Ariel Award as a best supporting actress in 1950 with the movie ''Una famila de tantas''. Her most notable films were "In the palm of your hand", "La maquerida", "El siete Machos", "Los bandidos de Rio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Gavaldón
Roberto Gavaldón (June 7, 1909 in Jiménez, Chihuahua – September 4, 1986 in Mexico City) was a Mexican film director. Eight of Gavaldón's films were featured on the list 100 Best Movies of the Cinema of Mexico. His 1958 film ''Ash Wednesday'' was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival and his 1959 film ''Beyond All Limits'' was entered into the following years festival. His 1960 film '' Macario'' was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Selected filmography * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1942) * ''La Barraca'' (1944) * '' The Shack'' (1945) * '' The Associate'' (1946) * ''La Otra'' (1946) * ''The Private Life of Mark Antony and Cleopatra'' (1947) * ''Adventures of Casanova'' (1948) * ''La casa chica'' (1950) * '' Desired'' (1951) * ''En La Palma de Tu Mano'' (1951) * ''La Noche Avanza'' (1952) * ''The Boy and the Fog'' (1953) * ''Las Tres perfectas casadas'' (1953) * ''Came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anabelle Gutiérrez
Anabelle is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Anabelle Langlois (born 1981), Canadian pairs figure skater * Anabelle Prawerman (born 1963), French beach volleyball player * Anabelle Rodriguez, Puerto Rican lawyer See also * Anabel (other) ** Anabel, given name * Annabel (other) ** Annabelle (given name) Annabelle is a feminine given name of French origin, a combination of the Latin name Anna, which comes from the Hebrew word for grace, and the French word ''belle'', meaning beauty. The name means favored grace. Notable people with this given ... {{given name Feminine given names French feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Roberto Gavaldón
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Spanish-language Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Drama Films
Mexican may refer to: Mexico and its culture *Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America ** People *** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants *** Mexica, ancient indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico ** Being related to the State of Mexico, one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico ** Culture of Mexico *** Mexican cuisine *** historical synonym of Nahuatl, language of the Nahua people (including the Mexica) Arts and entertainment * "The Mexican" (short story), by Jack London * "The Mexican" (song), by the band Babe Ruth * Regional Mexican, a Latin music radio format Films * ''The Mexican'' (1918 film), a German silent film * ''The Mexican'' (1955 film), a Soviet film by Vladimir Kaplunovsky based on the Jack London story, starring Georgy Vitsin * ''The Mexican'', a 2001 American comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts Other uses * USS ''Mexican'' (ID-1655), United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Drama Films
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Films
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1951 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1951 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1951. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1951. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events * February 15 – new management takes over at United Artists with Arthur B. Krim, Robert Benjamin and Matty Fox now in charge. * April – French magazine ''Cahiers du cinéma'' is first published. * July 26 – Walt Disney's ''Alice in Wonderland'' premieres; while a disappointment at first and hardly released in theaters, it would later become one of the biggest cult classics in the anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Urcelay
Nicolás Urcelay (20 December 1919 – 1 July 1959) was a Mexican singer. Selected filmography * '' Desired'' (1951) 1959 deaths 1919 births Mexican pianists 20th-century pianists Male pianists 20th-century Mexican male singers People from Mérida, Yucatán Musicians from Yucatán (state) {{Mexico-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosario Gutiérrez
Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most populous city in Argentina that is not a capital (provincial or national). With a growing and important metropolitan area, Greater Rosario has an estimated population of 1,750,000 . One of its main attractions includes the neoclassical, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco architecture that has been retained over the centuries in hundreds of residences, houses and public buildings. Rosario is the head city of the Rosario Department and is located at the heart of the major industrial corridor in Argentina. The city is a major railroad terminal and the shipping center for north-eastern Argentina. Ships reach the city via the Paraná River, which allows the existence of a port. The Port of Rosario is subject to silting and must be dredged periodically. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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