El milagro de la Calle Mayor
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Steven Sekely
Margo
Arturo De Córdova
José Crespo
Pilar Arcos
Carlos Villarías
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[The following plot summary is based on the English-language version of this film, Miracle on Main Street ; character names refer to that version.] Maria Porter, a striptease dancer in a carnival side show in the Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, is unhappily married to Dick, a carnival barker with a criminal nature. Attempting to drum up business on Christmas Eve, the pair try to rob an undercover policeman disguised as a lecherous drunk, and when the officer announces that they are under arrest, they flee. Maria joins a crowd entering a church, where she finds an abandoned infant in the Christ child's manger. As a disguise, she picks up the baby and carries it to her boardinghouse. To avoid the police, Dick leaves Maria to fend for herself and disappears. The deserted Maria is helped by Dr. Miles and her landlady, Mrs. Herman, and soon finds herself unable to part with the infant. To support herself, Maria takes a job sewing so that she can stay home with the baby, but she is unable to earn enough money to pay her bills. When Mrs. Herman urges her to return to dancing, Maria goes to Pepito's nightclub to ask for work. At the club, Jim Foreman, a lonely, recently divorced rancher, overhears Maria imploring Pepito for a job and, taking pity on her, invites her for a drink. Their drink initiates a courtship, and Maria, with Jim's support, becomes a fashion designer. Jim falls in love with Maria, but his proposal of marriage puts her into a quandry about revealing her sordid past. Just as she is about to confess all to Jim, Dick returns and offers to get out of his wife's life for a price. To prevent Dick from extorting money from Jim, Maria pretends that she still loves the man who caused her such anguish. In revenge, Dick tells the welfare department that Maria is an unfit mother. All ends happily, however, when Dick is killed in an attempted robbery, and Jim returns to take care of Maria and the baby.
Director
Steven Sekely
Cast
Margo
Arturo De Córdova
José Crespo
Pilar Arcos
Carlos Villarías
Tana
José Luis Tortosa
Robina Duarte
Romualdo Tirado
Juan Duval
Carmela Peña
Carmen De Miró
Adelina García
César Miró
Lorenzo Félix
José Nieto
Carmen Mora
Crew
Ralph Berger
N. A. Cuyás
Ralph Freed
Gordon Griffith
Boris Ingster
Frederick Jackson
Walter Jurmann
César Miró
Buddy Myers
Samuel Ornitz
Barney Rogan
Irene Saltern
Fred Scheld
Jack H. Skirball
Glenn P. Thompson
Enrique Uhthoff
Charles Van Enger
Miguel De Zárraga
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This is a Spanish-language version of the 1939 film Miracle on Main Street, which was directed by Steven Sekely and starred Margo and Walter Abel. This version was entitled Quiso ser madre when it was shown in Santiago, Chile on December 26, 1939. Some sources also credit Luis Alberni as a cast member, but his participation has not been confirmed.
