''Cabaret Shanghai'' (Spanish: ''Cabaret Shangai'') is a 1950 Mexican
musical
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drama film
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directed by
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 pr ...
. and starring
Rosa Carmina
Rosa Carmina Riverón Jiménez (born November 19, 1929) is a Cuban-Mexican actress and dancer.
She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish filmmaker Juan Orol, and made her debut in Mexican cinema in Orol's film ''A Woman from the East'' in 1946. ...
,
Manuel Arvide and
Amparo Arozamena. It was part of the trend of
Rumberas films
The Rumberas film (in Spanish, Cine de rumberas) was a film genre that flourished in Mexico's Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Its major stars were the so-called ''Cuban rumba, rumberas'', dancers of Afro-Caribbean music, Afro-C ...
, popular during the
Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
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. It was shot at the Azteca Studios in
Mexico City
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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Ramón Rodríguez Granada.
Plot
Alberto (Robert Romaña), the confidant of Tony (
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 pr ...
), a gangster owner of the Cabaret Shanghai, departs from the business when his boss's lover, Mary Ruth (
Rosa Carmina
Rosa Carmina Riverón Jiménez (born November 19, 1929) is a Cuban-Mexican actress and dancer.
She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish filmmaker Juan Orol, and made her debut in Mexican cinema in Orol's film ''A Woman from the East'' in 1946. ...
) shown affectionate with him. The destination will soon torment these cursed lovers, who will be chased by the police as well as by the betrayed gangster.
Cast
*
Rosa Carmina
Rosa Carmina Riverón Jiménez (born November 19, 1929) is a Cuban-Mexican actress and dancer.
She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish filmmaker Juan Orol, and made her debut in Mexican cinema in Orol's film ''A Woman from the East'' in 1946. ...
as Mary Ruth
*
Roberto Romaña as Alfredo
*
Manuel Arvide as Inspector Arriaga
*
Amparo Arozamena as Eva Romagnoli
*
Salvador Quiroz
Salvador Quiroz (1892–1956) was a Mexican film actor.Kohner, p. 355
Selected filmography
* ''Huapango (film), Huapango'' (1938)
* ''Horse for Horse'' (1939)
* ''With Villa's Veterans'' (1939)
* ''To the Sound of the Marimba'' (1941)
* ''The 9 ...
as Comisario
*
Juanita Riverón as Rita
*
Tana Lynn as La gringa
*
Amelia Wilhelmy as Borracha comisaria
*
José Pardavé as Borracho comisaria
*
Rafael Icardo as Doctor
*
Tony Flandes as Esbirro de Tony
*
Armando Arriola as El Polilla
*
Roberto Corell as Peluquero comisaria
*
Carlos Rincón Gallardo as Hombre afeminado comisaria
*
Marco de Carlo as Marco
*
Genaro de Alba as Esbirro de Tony
*
Pedro Ibarra as Esbirro de Tony
*
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 pr ...
as Tony
*
Víctor Alcocer
Víctor Alcocer Gómez (March 23, 1917 – October 2, 1984) was a Mexican actor of film, television and voice-over.Kika Meyer
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* Kika Karadi (born 1975), American contemporary artist
* Kika Markham (born 1940), English actress
* Kika Mir ...
as Cabaretera
Reviews
The musical numbers of Rosa Carmina in the cabaret adorn this melodrama directed by the incomparable Juan Orol, who transcends the rules of the genre to mix both the gangster films as the romantic drama.
References
Bibliography
* Riera, Emilio García. ''Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1949''. Ediciones Era, 1969.
* Wilt, David E. ''The Mexican Filmography, 1916 through 2001''. McFarland, 2024.
External links
*
''Cine Mexicano de Galletas: Cabaret Shanghai''
1950 films
Mexican gangster films
Mexican black-and-white films
Rumberas films
1950s Spanish-language films
Mexican crime drama films
1950 drama films
1950s Mexican films
Films directed by Juan Orol
1950 musical films
Mexican musical films
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