Charros, gauchos y manolas
Cast & Crew
Xavier Cugat
Carmen Castillo
Delia Magaña
Samuel Pedraza
Carlos Gómez "don Chema"
Paul Ellis
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The magazine, Paintings of the People , initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry, bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.
Director
Xavier Cugat
Cast
Carmen Castillo
Delia Magaña
Samuel Pedraza
Carlos Gómez "don Chema"
Paul Ellis
Carmen Granada
Vicente Padula
Carlos Lucanti
María Alba
Martín Garralaga
Marina Ortiz
José Peña "pepet"
Romualdo Tirado
Luis Alvarez
María Calvo
Luis Elorriaga
Manuel Conesa
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This film's working title was Revista musical Cugat. Some sources indicate that the film was shot at the Tiffany Studios, while others state that it was shot at Universal Studios. These sources also include Don Alvarado and Carmen Guerrero in the cast, but their participation in the released film has not been confirmed. A contemporary news item announced that the producers would also prepare an English-language version, Hollywood Spanish Follies, but no evidence has been located to confirm that that film was ever made.
