The Empty Star
Cast & Crew
Emilio Gómez Muriel
María Félix
Ignacio López Tarso
Enrique Rambal
Carlos López Moctezuma
Ramón Gay
Film Details
Synopsis
International film star Olga Lang is killed in a plane crash and some of the men she has known attempt to find a meaning in her unhappy life ... As a smalltown girl of extraordinary beauty, she pays for acting lessons by modeling in a dress shop. Her first affair is with Luis, a struggling young writer who offers her marriage. But, too ambitious to settle for domesticity, she undergoes an abortion and terminates their relationship. Luis then introduces her to the director of a theater group, an association that leads to a contract with one of Mexico's major film studios. As Luis gains fame as a novelist, Olga takes as her next lover a brutal and ruthless film tycoon, Federico. He dies of a heart attack, and Olga becomes so rich and powerful that she is able to choose the films she will make. But she meets her match in Raul, a songwriter who squanders her money on other women and mismanages her business affairs. Following a violent quarrel with Raul, who brutally beats her, Olga realizes that her life has become almost totally empty, and she decides to go to Europe and begin anew. As she boards the ill-fated plane, she is still a radiantly beautiful woman.
Director
Emilio Gómez Muriel
Cast
María Félix
Ignacio López Tarso
Enrique Rambal
Carlos López Moctezuma
Ramón Gay
Carlos Navarro
Rita Macedo
Wolf Rubinsky
Tito Junco
José Luis Jiménez
Mauricio Garcés
Rosa Elena Durgel
Crew
Balenciaga
Jesús Bracho
Jorge Bustos
Gustavo César Carrión
Julio Alejandro De Castro
Gabriel Figueroa
Emilio Gómez Muriel
G. B. Kalee
Agustin Lara
Jean Patou
Manuel Topete
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
Released in Mexico in 1960 as La estrella vacia; running time: 105 min. A Mexican source credits Topete as sound engineer; U. S. source credits Kalee.
