''Chachita from Triana'' (Spanish: ''Chachita la de Triana'') is a 1947 Mexican

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directed by

Ismael Rodríguez Ismael Rodríguez (October 19, 1917 – August 7, 2004) was a Mexican film director. Rodríguez rose to fame due to the movies he directed starring Pedro Infante, and directed many major stars, including Dolores del Río, María Félix, Tos ...

and starring

Evita Muñoz Eva María Muñoz Ruíz (November 26, 1936 – August 23, 2016), known professionally as Evita Muñoz "Chachita", was a Mexican actress and comedian. Her professional career began in 1941, when she was only four years old, and she continued perf ...

Carlos Martínez Baena Carlos Martínez Baena (7 May 1889 – 29 May 1971) was a Spanish-Mexican actor. At a young age he moved to Mexico with his family where he became a journalist. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1931 to 1970. Selected filmography Re ...

and

René Cardona René Cardona (October 8, 1905 – April 25, 1988) was a Mexican director, actor, producer, screenwriter, and film editor, who was prominent during part of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Biography René Cardona was born in Havana, Cuba, on ...

. Wilt p.103 The film's sets were designed by the

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Carlos Toussaint.

Synopsis

A Spanish

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and his Mexican

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wife travel from Spain to visit his father in Mexico to ask for his assistance. As the older man dislikes women and had opposed their marriage, they get their daughter Chachita to dress up as a boy in order to win over her grandfather.

Cast

as Chachita *

as Don Carlos *

as Don Roberto * Jorge Reyes as Che *

Florencio Castelló Florencio Castelló (1905 – 23 August 1986) was a Spanish actor, known for participating in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, acting alongside personalities of Mexican cinema such as Pedro Infante and Cantinflas. He usually played roles ...

as José mayordomo *

Luana Alcañiz Luana Alcañiz (1906–1991) was a Spanish actress. She appeared in a number of films during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Her final uncredited, appearance was in the 1965 film '' Doctor Zhivago'' by David Lean. Castelli & Cleeland p.92 Selec ...

as Rocío *

Luis Manuel Pelayo Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

as Andrés *

Leonor Gómez Leonor or Léonor is the Spanish form of the given name Eleanor. People bearing the name include: * Leonor Acevedo Suárez (1876–1975), Argentine translator and mother of Jorge Luis Borges *Leonor Allende (1883–1931), Argentine writer and jo ...

as Vecina *

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* Raquel Díaz de León * Pedro de Urdimalas *

Alfonso Jiménez Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. I ...

* Ángel Sampedro 'Angelillo' * La Pandilla Mexicana

References

Bibliography

* Riera, Emilio García. ''Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1946-1948''. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1992 * Wilt, David E. ''The Mexican Filmography, 1916 through 2001''. McFarland, 2024.

External links

* 1947 films Mexican drama films 1947 drama films 1940s Spanish-language films Films directed by Ismael Rodríguez Mexican black-and-white films 1940s Mexican films Films set in Spain {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub