''Orange Blossom for Your Wedding'' (Spanish: ''Azahares para tu boda'') is a 1950 Mexican

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directed by

Julián Soler Julián Díaz Pavia (17 February 1907 – 5 May 1977), better known by the stage name Julián Soler, was a Mexican film director, actor, and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In his career spanning half a century, Soler receive ...

and starring

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and

Marga López Catalina Margarita López Ramos (; June 21, 1924 – July 4, 2005), known professionally as Marga López, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Biography Born Catalina Margarita López Ramos on June 21, 1924, in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argenti ...

. It was shot at the Azteca Studios in

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Jorge Fernández. It is a

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of the 1939 Argentine film '' Such Is Life''.

Synopsis

It portrays a

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family in the years before the

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onwards. The father forbids the marriage of his daughter Felicia to one of her suitors.

Cast

as Ernesto *

as Eloísa *

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as Don Bodroz *

as Felicia *

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as Alberto *

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as Sr. Cabrera * Fernando Soto as Rosendo *

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as Luis *Hortensia Constance as Adela *Margarita Cortés as Felipa * Florencio Castelló as Amigo español del tendero * Anabelle Gutiérrez as Margarita *

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* Freddy Fernández as Eduardo - young *

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as Eduardo - adult * Eduardo Noriega as Carlos *

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as Tota *

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as Nieta * Nicolás Rodríguez as Tendero Español *

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as Sirvienta fea * Alfonso Zayas

References

Bibliography

* Amador, María Luisa. ''Cartelera cinematográfica, 1950-1959''. UNAM, 1985. * Stock, Anne Marie (ed.) ''Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives''. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

External links

* 1950 films 1950s Spanish-language films Mexican black-and-white films Mexican comedy-drama films 1950 comedy-drama films 1950s Mexican films Spanish-language comedy-drama films Films directed by Julián Soler Films set in the 1900s Films set in the 1910s Mexican historical films 1950s historical films Remakes of Argentine films Spanish-language historical films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub