Manuel Romero (director)

Manuel Romeo (September 21, 1891 – October 3, 1954 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter, dramatist and score composer, one of the most important figures of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. He directed and wrote over 50 films between 1931 and 1951 even composing the musical scores for several.

He was a pioneer of Variety Theatre, and one of the few tango lyrical writers that has reached timeless classical success. When he was a teenager, he began his journalist job in the Magacine Fray Mochoy, and in the newspapers Crítica y Última Hora.

His first play, "Teatro breve" is from 1919 with the collaboration of Ivo Pelay. He wrote 180 more. In 1922 the most famous, "El bailarín del cabaret", was staged with the César Ratti's company, where Corsini triunfó (had a success) with "Patotero sentimental".

In 1923 he travelled to Europe with Luis Bayón Herrera. In Paris, where he acted on several plays, he met Carlos Gardel and the idea of filmmaking was born. He wrote the plot and songs for "Luces de Buenos Aires", directed by Adelqui Millar. It starred Gloria Guzmán, Sofía Bozán, Pedro Quartucci and the Julio De Caro musical group.

He returned to Buenos Aires, where he introduced the new ideas taken from music hall and varieties shows. He started to work at the Lumitón cinema company, with Enrique Telémaco Susini . With that film company, released in February 1935, "Noches de Buenos Aires", written and directed by Romero, his cinema career began. The film starred Tita Merello, Irma Córdoba, Enrique Serrano and Fernando Ochoa.

He filmed very quickly, he only wanted to have it finished as soon as possible and achieve a good box office outcome. His films were rejected by critics and intellectuals as a result, but ordinary people liked his style because they knew him from radio of variety shows.

He directed films such as ''Adiós pampa mía'' in 1946.

Filmography

* 1931 ''The Pure Truth''
* 1932 '' When Do You Commit Suicide?''
* 1935 ''Buenos Aires Nights''
* 1935 '' The Favorite''
* 1936 ''Don Quijote del altillo''
* 1936 ''La muchachada de a bordo''
* 1936 ''Radio Bar''
* 1937 ''El cañonero de Giles''
* 1937 '' La muchacha del circo''
* 1937 ''La vuelta de Rocha''
* 1937 '' Outside the Law''
* 1937 '' The Boys Didn't Wear Hair Gel Before''
* 1938 '' La rubia del camino''
* 1938 ''Three Argentines in Paris''
* 1938 '' Women Who Work''
* 1939 ''Gente bien'' (''Affluent People'')
* 1939 '' Muchachas que estudian'' (''College Girls'')
* 1939 '' Divorce in Montevideo''
* 1939 ''La vida es un tango''
* 1939 '' The Model and the Star''
* 1940 ''Carnaval de antaño''
* 1940 '' Isabelita''
* 1940 ''Los muchachos se divierten''
* 1940 ''Honeymoon in Rio''
* 1940 ''Marriage in Buenos Aires''
* 1941 ''El tesoro de la isla Maciel''
* 1941 ''I Want to Be a Chorus Girl''
* 1941 ''Un bebé de París''
* 1941 '' You Are My Love''
* 1942 '' A Light in the Window''
* 1942 ''Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tiendas''
* 1942 ''Historia de crímenes'' (''Tale of Crimes'')
* 1942 ''Ven mi corazón te llama'' (''When My Heart Calls'')
* 1943 ''El fabricante de estrellas''
* 1943 ''La calle Corrientes''
* 1944 ''Hay que casar a Paulina''
* 1946 ''Adiós pampa mía''
* 1946 ''El diablo andaba en los choclos''
* 1947 ''Christmas with the Poor''
* 1948 ''El rey del cabaret''
* 1948 ''La rubia Mireya''
* 1948 ''Porteña de corazón''
* 1948 ''The Tango Returns to Paris''
* 1949 ''Morir en su ley''
* 1949 ''Mujeres que bailan''
* 1949 ''La historia del tango'' (''The Story of the Tango'')
* 1949 ''Un tropezón cualquiera da en la vida''
* 1950 ''Juan Mondiola''
* 1950 '' Valentina''
* 1951 ''Arriba el telón o el patio de la morocha''
* 1951 ''Derecho viejo''
* 1951 '' The Fan''
* 1953 '' Ue... paisano!''

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1891 births
1954 deaths
Argentine film directors
Argentine male screenwriters
Argentine film score composers
Argentine male film score composers
Film people from Buenos Aires
Tango film directors
20th-century Argentine composers
20th-century Argentine male musicians
20th-century Argentine screenwriters
20th-century Argentine male writers