Argentine films of the 1930s
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A list of films produced in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 in the 1930s in the List of Argentine films. Film production in the Cinema of Argentina
Cinema of Argentina
The cinema of Argentina has a tradition dating back to the late nineteenth century, and continues to play a role in the culture of Argentina....

 increased strongly in the mid to late 1930s.

The incorporation of sound had a great impact. In 1930 Adiós Argentina became the first Argentine film to have a soundtrack. The film spawned star actresses such as Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...

 and Ada Cornaro
Ada Cornaro
Ada Cornaro was a prominent Argentine film and theatre actress, tango dancer and singer of the 1930s and 1940s.Although she entered film in 1924 her claim to fame was in the 1930 tango film hit Adiós Argentina in which she starred alongside icon Libertad Lamarque.She appeared in tango films such...

 who both debuted in the film.

In 1931 José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

 directed Muñequitas porteñas, and was the first Argentine spoken film, with Vitaphone
Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...

 synchronisation. That year El cantar de mi ciudad
El Cantar de mi ciudad
El Cantar de mi ciudad is a 1930 Argentine film directed and written by José A. Ferreyra...

 was directed by José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

 as early directors made the transition to sound.

Around 1933 the Movietone
Movietone sound system
The Movietone sound system is a sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures that guarantees synchronization between sound and picture. It achieves this by recording the sound as a variable-density optical track on the same strip of film that records the pictures...

 arrived and it allowed both voice and music in motion pictures. Also, the first two Argentine cinematographic studios were created: Argentina Sono Film was founded by Ángel Mentasti, and Lumiton was created by Enrique Telémaco Susini
Enrique Telémaco Susini
Enrique Telémaco Susini was an Argentine entrepreneur and media pioneer.In 1920, Susini led the effort for the first radio broadcast in Argentina, and subsequently established one of the earliest regular radio stations in the world...

, César José Guerrico and Luis Romero Carranza.

The first disc-less sound film was Tango (1931), directed by Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth was an Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era. He directed some 30 films between 1927 and 1959, often screenwriting for his pictures.He directed films such as Los tres berretines and Amalia...

 and a key film of the period was the tango film Dancing (1933 film) which saw the birth of a number of Argentine stars such as Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence is an Argentine film actress.-Career:Born as María Amelia Botwinik, Amelia Bence is one of the divas of the Golden Age of the Argentinian cinema...

 and Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

 and other actors such as Tita Merello
Tita Merello
Laura Ana Merello best known as Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer...

, Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Ferreyra began acting for film in 1926 and made some 60 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1969 appearing in films such as Amalia and Ayúdame a Vivir in 1936 and Besos Brujos often working alongside Libertad Lamarque...

, Aída Alberti
Aída Alberti
Aída Alberti was a retired Argentine film actress of the 1940s and 1950s.She entered film in 1938 in Pampa y cielo followed by Atorrante in 1939.In 1946 she appeared in Albergue de mujeres with Orestes Caviglia....

 and Armando Bo
Armando Bo
Armando Bó was an Argentine film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and score composer of the classic era...

 began to gain popularity.

Successful films were: El alma del bandoneón, Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

, 1935; La muchachada de a bordo, Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

, 1936; Ayúdame a vivir, 1936; Besos brujos
Besos Brujos
Bewitching Kisses is a 1937 Argentine romantic drama film musical directed and written by José A. Ferreyra, based on a story by Enrique García Velloso. Starring Libertad Lamarque and Floren Delbene....

(1937) and La vuelta al nido
La Vuelta al nido
La Vuelta al nido is a 1938 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torres Rios. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Amelia Bence....

(Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer...

, 1938 and Así es la vida
Such Is Life (1939 film)
Such Is Life is a 1939 Argentine romantic drama film musical directed by Francisco Múgica based on a play by Nicolás de las Llanderas and Arnaldo Malfatti; starring Enrique Muiño.-Plot summary:...

 (1939) directed by Francisco Mugica
Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica was an Argentine film director, film editor and cinematographer....

.

Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 in particular was one of the most prominent directors of the mid to late 1930s and consistently worked in comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 based films often with rising Argentine star Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini was a prolific Argentine comic film actor and film producer. He has made over 80 appearances in film between 1933 and 1980....

 in films such as Don Quijote del altillo
Don Quijote del altillo
Don Quijote del altillo is a 1936 Argentine comedy film directed and written by Manuel Romero. Starring Luis Sandrini and Nuri Montsé.-Main cast:*Luis Sandrini as Eusebio*Nuri Montsé as Urbana*Eduardo Sandrini as Martínez...

.

1930–1934

Title Director Cast Genre Notability
1930
1930 in film
-Events:* November 1: The Big Trail featuring a young John Wayne in his first starring role is released in both 35mm, and a very early form of 70mm film and was the first large scale big-budget film of the sound era costing over $2 million. The film was praised for its aesthetic quality and realism...

Adiós Argentina  Mario Parpagnoli Ada Cornaro
Ada Cornaro
Ada Cornaro was a prominent Argentine film and theatre actress, tango dancer and singer of the 1930s and 1940s.Although she entered film in 1924 her claim to fame was in the 1930 tango film hit Adiós Argentina in which she starred alongside icon Libertad Lamarque.She appeared in tango films such...

Argentine tango
Argentine tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 film
19 March
El cantar de mi ciudad
El Cantar de mi ciudad
El Cantar de mi ciudad is a 1930 Argentine film directed and written by José A. Ferreyra...

 
José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

María Turgenova Esther Calvo Lina Montiel Arturo Forte Romantic Comedy  3 October
Viejo smoking
Viejo smoking
Viejo smoking is a 1930 Argentine romantic drama film musical directed and written by Eduardo Morera, based on a play by Florencio Chiarello. Starring Tita Merello and Tito Lusiardo...

 
Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera (9 January 1906 - 21 January 1997 in Buenos Aires was an important Argentine film director of early Argentine cinema in the 1930s...

 
Tita Merello
Tita Merello
Laura Ana Merello best known as Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer...

, Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

1931
1931 in film
-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:*Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM*Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul*Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ*Best Actor: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...

Diez canciones de Gardel Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera (9 January 1906 - 21 January 1997 in Buenos Aires was an important Argentine film director of early Argentine cinema in the 1930s...

Muñequitas porteñas  José Ferreyra  María Turgenova Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Ferreyra began acting for film in 1926 and made some 60 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1969 appearing in films such as Amalia and Ayúdame a Vivir in 1936 and Besos Brujos often working alongside Libertad Lamarque...

 Arturo Forte Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

 
Drama 7 August
La Vía de oro  Edmo Cominetti Nedda Francy Alberto Lliri
Luces de Buenos Aires 
1932
1932 in film
-Events:*Cary Grant's film career begins*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*Disney released Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.*Santa, first sound film made in Mexico released....

En el infierno del Chaco 
Rapsodia gaucha 
1933
1933 in film
-Events:* March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey.* British Film Institute founded....

Los caballeros de cemento Ricardo Hicken
Dancing 
El Linyera 
1934
1934 in film
-Events:*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Reade...

Ayer y hoy
Ayer y Hoy (film)
Ayer y hoy is a 1934 Argentine musical romantic drama film directed by Enrique Susini and written by José B. Cairola. The film premiered on 25 May 1934 in Buenos Aires....

 
Enrique Susini Maro Danesi 
Calles de Buenos Aires 
Ídolos de la radio  Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera (9 January 1906 - 21 January 1997 in Buenos Aires was an important Argentine film director of early Argentine cinema in the 1930s...

 
Tita Merello
Tita Merello
Laura Ana Merello best known as Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer...

, Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

, Ada Falcon
Ada Falcon
Ada Falcón was an Argentine tango dancer, singer and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She starred in the film Idolos de la radio in 1934. She was famous for her tango work and made over 200 recordings in the 1920s and 1930s. She shared a long relationship with orchestra leader Francisco Canaro...

El Hombre bestia 
Galería de esperanzas 

1935
1935 in film
-Events:*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .*Seven year old Shirley Temple wins a special Academy Award.*The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:...

Title Director Actors Genre Notability
1935
1935 in film
-Events:*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .*Seven year old Shirley Temple wins a special Academy Award.*The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:...

El alma del bandoneón  Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...

 
Considered one of most influential tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 films of Argentine cinema
Cinema of Argentina
The cinema of Argentina has a tradition dating back to the late nineteenth century, and continues to play a role in the culture of Argentina....

La barra mendocina
La Barra Mendocina
La Barra Mendocina is a 1935 Argentine comedy film directed and written by Mario Soffici. The film premiered on August 2, 1935 in Buenos Aires.-Main cast:*Alberto Anchart*Alberto Bello*Antonio Ber Ciani*Dringue Farías*José Gola*Pilar Gómez...

 
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

José Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...


Oscar Villa
El caballo del pueblo
El Caballo del pueblo
El Caballo del pueblo is a 1935 Argentine musical film comedy directed and written by Manuel Romero with Luis Bayón Herrera. It is a tango film and premiered on August 15 1935.The cinematography and editing was performed by Francisco Múgica....

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci was an Argentine boxer and actor.-Boxing career:As a featherweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s, he won a bronze medal in Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the featherweight division, losing against Joseph Salas in the semi-final.-Acting career:He then pursued...

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Written by Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera was Spanish film director and screenwriter who worked in Argentine film of the 1940s and 1950s....

Crimen a las tres
Crimen a las tres
Crimen a las tres is a 1935 Argentine crime film directed and written by Luis Saslavsky.-Main cast:*Blanca de Castejón*Eduardo Berri*Malena Bravo*Héctor Cataruzza*Augusto Codecá*Ana May...

 
Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Ana May Crime
Crime
Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...

 
Cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

 by John Alton
John Alton
John Alton A.S.C. , born Johann Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer...

Escala en la ciudad
Escala en la ciudad
Escala en la ciudad is a 1935 Argentine film directed and written by Alberto De Zavalia with Carlos Aden. It was produced by SIFAL, a production company run by de Zavalia and his partner Luis Saslavsky...

 
Alberto de Zavalía
Alberto de Zavalía
Alberto De Zavalia was an Argentine film director and film producer.- Biography :De Zavalía was born in Buenos Aires to a middle-class, well-off family. He completed law school but never worked as a lawyer, instead dedicating himself to movie-making, an industry that was then thriving...

Eduardo Berri Cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

 by John Alton
John Alton
John Alton A.S.C. , born Johann Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer...

El fogón de los gauchos  Julio Irigoyen
Julio Irigoyen
Julio Irigoyen was an Argentine film director.Irigoyen began directing in 1923. His first film was De Nuestras Pampas. He directed films such as the 1942 film Academia El Tango Argentino....

Diana Bernal
Diana Bernal
Diana Rosalía Bernal Ladrón de Guevara is a Mexican jurist and politician who has served in the lower house of the Mexican Congress.Bernal studied law at the Ibero-American University...

, Silvia Cecy, Alberto Miranda, Roberto Roldán 
Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 
Cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

 by Roberto Irigoyen
Roberto Irigoyen
Roberto Irigoyen was an Argentine cinematographer who worked in Argentine cinema between 1923 and 1948.As the brother of director Julio Irigoyen, Roberto began a career in cinematography in 1923 working chiefly in the major films produced by his brother. His first film was De nuestras pampas...

Internado
Internado
Internado is a 1935 Argentine musical film directed by Carlos de la Pua and Héctor Basso....

 
Carlos de la Pua Francisco Audenino, Tulia Ciámpoli, Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba was an Argentine film actress of the classic era.She entered the film industry in 1932 and appeared in over 30 films, spanning 65 years of Argentine film. She appeared in films such as Fuera de la ley 1937 and Atorrante . She retired in 1997.-Filmography:*Mundo contra mí, El *Eva...

, Ricardo de Rosas, Gloria Ferrandiz
Gloria Ferrandiz
Gloria Ferrandiz was an Argentine actress of the classic Argentine cinema era. She starred in over 40 films, including the 1962 film Una Jaula no tiene secretos.-External links:. ....

25 September
Monte Criollo
Monte Criollo
Monte Criollo is a 1935 Argentine musical film directed and written by Arturo S. Mom. It is a tango film and starred Nedda Francy and Francisco Petrone.-Other cast:*Carlos Fioriti*Agustín Magaldi*Azucena Maizani*Miguel Mileo*Olga Mom*Pedro Noda...

 
Arturo S. Mom
Arturo S. Mom
Arturo S. Mom was an Argentine screenwriter and film director of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s....

 
Nedda Francy
Francisco Petrone
Francisco Petrone
Francisco Petrone was an Argentine film actor.He is best known for his roles in the 1940s in the classic film La Guerra Gaucha and Todo un hombre for which he won the Silver Condor award for Best Actor....

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
22 May
Noches de Buenos Aires
Noches de Buenos Aires
Noches de Buenos Aires is a 1935 Argentine romantic musical film directed and written by Manuel Romero with Luis Bayón Herrera. It is a tango film and was edited by Francisco Múgica-Cast:*Fernando Ochóa*Tita Merello*Severo Fernández*Irma Córdoba...

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Tita Merello
Tita Merello
Laura Ana Merello best known as Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer...

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

Edited by Francisco Mugica
Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica was an Argentine film director, film editor and cinematographer....

La Virgencita de Pompeya
La Virgencita de Pompeya
La Virgencita de Pompeya is a 1935 Argentine musical film drama directed by Enrique Cadícamo and written by Enrique Pedro Maroni. It is a tango film and premiered on 14 March 1935 in Buenos Aires.-Main cast:*Juan Carlos Cobián*Luis Díaz*Santos Landa...

 
Enrique Cadícamo
Enrique Cadícamo
Enrique Domingo Cadícamo was a prolific Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist. From an initial Symbolist bent, he developed a distinctive, lunfardo-rich style from an early age, and by 1925 he had his first piece, Pompas de jabón, sung by Carlos Gardel...

 
Juan Carlos Cobián, Luis Díaz, Santos Landa Written by Enrique Pedro Maroni
Puente Alsina
Puente Alsina (film)
Puente Alsina is a 1935 Argentine musical film directed and written by José A. Ferreyra. It is a tango musical and premiered on 6 August 1935 in Buenos Aires.-Main cast:*Salvador Arcella*Alberto Bello*Pedro Bibe*Pierina Dealessi*Alfredo Distasio...

 
José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

 
José Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...


Miguel Gómez Bao
Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 
Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...


1936
1936 in film
The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 29 - Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.*November 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon...

Title Director Actors Genre Notability
Amalia
Amalia (1936 film)
Amalia is a 1936 Argentine silent film directed and script written by Luis Moglia Barth. It was based on the novel by José Mármol and is also a remake of the 1914 film Amalia of the same name...

 
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth was an Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era. He directed some 30 films between 1927 and 1959, often screenwriting for his pictures.He directed films such as Los tres berretines and Amalia...

 
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Ferreyra began acting for film in 1926 and made some 60 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1969 appearing in films such as Amalia and Ayúdame a Vivir in 1936 and Besos Brujos often working alongside Libertad Lamarque...

Romantic drama Based on a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by José Mármol
José Mármol
José Mármol was an Argentine journalist, politician, librarian, and writer of the Romantic school.Born in Buenos Aires, he initially studied law, but abandoned his studies in favor of politics. In 1839, no sooner had he begun to make a name for himself than he was arrested for his opposition to...

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Ayúdame a vivir  José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

 
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

Considered important tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...


Release:August 26
Canillita
Canillita
Canillita is a 1936 Argentine musical film directed and written by Lisandro de la Tea and Manuel Roneima. The film starred Amanda Ledesma and premiered on 26 March 1936 in Buenos Aires.-Cast:*Amanda Ledesma*Adolfo Alsina*Príncipe Azul...

 
Lisandro de la Tea Amanda Ledesma
Adolfo Alsina
Adolfo Alsina
Adolfo Alsina Maza was an Argentine lawyer and Unitarian politician, and one of the founders of the Partido Autonomista and the National Autonomist Party.-Biography:...

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

Co-directed and written with Manuel Roneima
Don Quijote del altillo
Don Quijote del altillo
Don Quijote del altillo is a 1936 Argentine comedy film directed and written by Manuel Romero. Starring Luis Sandrini and Nuri Montsé.-Main cast:*Luis Sandrini as Eusebio*Nuri Montsé as Urbana*Eduardo Sandrini as Martínez...

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini was a prolific Argentine comic film actor and film producer. He has made over 80 appearances in film between 1933 and 1980....

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

A Lumiton Studios production
La muchachada de a bordo
La Muchachada de a bordo
La Muchachada de a bordo is a 1936 Argentine comedy film directed and written by Manuel Romero. The film starred Luis Sandrini and Tito Lusiardo. The film was edited by Francisco Múgica.-Cast:*Luis Sandrini...

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini was a prolific Argentine comic film actor and film producer. He has made over 80 appearances in film between 1933 and 1980....

, Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
Editing by Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica was an Argentine film director, film editor and cinematographer....

Loco lindo
Loco lindo
Loco lindo is a 1936 Argentine comedy film directed by Arturo S. Mom and written by José B. Cairola and Conrado Nalé Roxlo. Starring Luis Sandrini and Sofía Bozán the film premiered in Buenos Aires on July 13, 1936...

 
Arturo S. Mom
Arturo S. Mom
Arturo S. Mom was an Argentine screenwriter and film director of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s....

 
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini was a prolific Argentine comic film actor and film producer. He has made over 80 appearances in film between 1933 and 1980....

, Sofía Bozán
Sofía Bozán
Sofía Bozán was an Argentine film actress and tango performer of the 1930s and 1940s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959....

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Release:July 13
Mi Buenos Aires querido
Mi Buenos Aires querido
Mi Buenos Aires querido is a 1936 Argentine musical film directed and written by Julio Irigoyen. It is a tango film.The soundtrack of the movie is Carlos Gardel's 'Mi Buenos Aires querido' tango....

 
Julio Irigoyen
Julio Irigoyen
Julio Irigoyen was an Argentine film director.Irigoyen began directing in 1923. His first film was De Nuestras Pampas. He directed films such as the 1942 film Academia El Tango Argentino....

 
Ada Cornaro
Ada Cornaro
Ada Cornaro was a prominent Argentine film and theatre actress, tango dancer and singer of the 1930s and 1940s.Although she entered film in 1924 her claim to fame was in the 1930 tango film hit Adiós Argentina in which she starred alongside icon Libertad Lamarque.She appeared in tango films such...

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

 by Roberto Irigoyen
Roberto Irigoyen
Roberto Irigoyen was an Argentine cinematographer who worked in Argentine cinema between 1923 and 1948.As the brother of director Julio Irigoyen, Roberto began a career in cinematography in 1923 working chiefly in the major films produced by his brother. His first film was De nuestras pampas...

Noites Cariocas
Noites Cariocas
Noites Cariocas is a 1936 Brazilian-Argentine comedy film directed and written by Enrique Cadícamo. It is based on a story by F. Gianetti...

 
Enrique Cadícamo
Enrique Cadícamo
Enrique Domingo Cadícamo was a prolific Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist. From an initial Symbolist bent, he developed a distinctive, lunfardo-rich style from an early age, and by 1925 he had his first piece, Pompas de jabón, sung by Carlos Gardel...

Eduardo Arouca Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian Argentine production in Portuguese and SPanish. Based on a story by F. Gianetti
Puerto nuevo
Puerto nuevo
Puerto nuevo is a 1936 Argentine musical film drama directed and written by Luis César Amadori and Mario Soffici. It is a tango film. The music was performed by Uruguayan musician Francisco Canaro.-Main cast:*Pepe Arias*Alicia Vignoli*Charlo...

 
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...


Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

Sofía Bozán
Sofía Bozán
Sofía Bozán was an Argentine film actress and tango performer of the 1930s and 1940s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959....

, José Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...

, Juan Siches de Alarcón, Miguel Gómez Bao
Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Music by Francisco Canaro
Francisco Canaro
Francisco Canaro was an Uruguayan-Argentine violinist and tango orchestra leader.His parents, Italians emigrated to Uruguay, and later - when Francisco Canaro was less than 10 years old, they emigrated to Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay,...

Radio Bar
Radio Bar
Radio Bar is a 1936 Argentine musical film drama directed and written by Manuel Romero. It is a tango film.-Main cast:*Gloria Guzmán*Olinda Bozán*Carmen Lamas*Alicia Barrié*Alberto Vila*Juan Carlos Thorry*Marcos Caplán*Susy Derqui...

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Juan Carlos Thorry
Juan Carlos Thorry
Born José Antonio Torrontegui and known as Juan Carlos Thorry was an Argentine film actor, tango musician and director....

Musical film
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

:Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

 and Editing by Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica was an Argentine film director, film editor and cinematographer....

Vértigo Emilio Karstulovic Emilia Harold, Delia Martínez, Lucía Montalvo, Venancio Muñoz Drama Release:March 9
Ya tiene comisario el pueblo
Ya tiene comisario el pueblo (1936 film)
Ya tiene comisario el pueblo is a 1936 Argentine film directed and written by Claudio Martínez Payva.-Main cast:*Paquito Busto*Arturo Arcari*Antonio Daglio*Roberto Fugazot*Agustín Irusta*Alberto Puértolas*Héctor Quintanilla*Leonor Rinaldi...

 
Claudio Martínez Payva  Arturo Arcari Drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 
Produced by Francisco Canaro
Francisco Canaro
Francisco Canaro was an Uruguayan-Argentine violinist and tango orchestra leader.His parents, Italians emigrated to Uruguay, and later - when Francisco Canaro was less than 10 years old, they emigrated to Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay,...


Written by Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera (9 January 1906 - 21 January 1997 in Buenos Aires was an important Argentine film director of early Argentine cinema in the 1930s...


Release dates for 1936

Date of release Title
March 9 Vértigo
July 13 Loco lindo
Loco lindo
Loco lindo is a 1936 Argentine comedy film directed by Arturo S. Mom and written by José B. Cairola and Conrado Nalé Roxlo. Starring Luis Sandrini and Sofía Bozán the film premiered in Buenos Aires on July 13, 1936...

August 26 Ayúdame a vivir

1937
1937 in film
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.- Events :*April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US....

Title Director Actors Genre Notability
Así es el tango
Así es el tango
Así es el tango is a 1937 Argentine romantic drama film musical directed and written by Eduardo Morera, based on a play by Florencio Chiarello. Starring Tita Merello and Tito Lusiardo...

 
Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera
Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera Eduardo Morera (9 January 1906 - 21 January 1997 in Buenos Aires was an important Argentine film director of early Argentine cinema in the 1930s...

Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....


Tita Merello
Tita Merello
Laura Ana Merello best known as Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer...

 
Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 Tango
Besos brujos
Besos Brujos
Bewitching Kisses is a 1937 Argentine romantic drama film musical directed and written by José A. Ferreyra, based on a story by Enrique García Velloso. Starring Libertad Lamarque and Floren Delbene....

 
José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

 
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...


Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Ferreyra began acting for film in 1926 and made some 60 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1969 appearing in films such as Amalia and Ayúdame a Vivir in 1936 and Besos Brujos often working alongside Libertad Lamarque...

Romantic drama 
Cadetes de San Martín (film)
Cadetes de San Martín (film)
Cadetes de San Martín is a 1937 Argentine film directed by Mario Soffici and written by José A. Saldías.It stars Enrique Muiño and Elías Alippi.-Cast:*Ángel Magaña*Enrique Muiño*Elías Alippi*Rosa Contreras*Héctor Calcaño*Orestes Caviglia...

 
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia was an Argentine film actor and film director of the classic era of the Cinema of Argentina....

El escuadrón azul
El Escuadrón azul
The Blue Squadron is a 1937 Argentine film directed and written by Nelo Cosimi. The film was released in the United States on 3 June 1938 by the Cinexport Distributing Co.-Cast:*Domingo Sapelli*María Esther Podestá*Sara Watle*Samuel Sanda...

 
Nelo Cosimi Raúl Castro
Raúl Castro
Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who has been President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba since 2008; he previously exercised presidential powers in an acting capacity from 2006 to 2008...


Rafael Salvatore
Romantic drama  24 November
Lo que le pasó a Reynoso
Lo que le pasó a Reynoso
Lo que le pasó a Reynoso is a 1937 Argentine drama film directed and written by Leopoldo Torres Ríos. The film was based on a play by Alberto Vaccarezza and premiered in Buenos Aires on February 18, 1937...

 
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer...

 
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Ferreyra began acting for film in 1926 and made some 60 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1969 appearing in films such as Amalia and Ayúdame a Vivir in 1936 and Besos Brujos often working alongside Libertad Lamarque...

Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
Based on a Alberto Vaccarezza
Alberto Vaccarezza
Bartolomé Ángel Venancio Alberto Vaccarezza was an Argentine poet and playwright.Vaccarezza was born in Buenos Aires on April 1, 1886. He is usually credited as the foremost exponent of the sainete genre, having written its most popular play, El Conventillo de La Paloma...

 play
Los Locos del cuarto piso
Los Locos del cuarto piso
Los Locos del cuarto piso is a 1937 Argentine comedy film directed by Lisandro de la Tea and written by Manuel Collazo. The film premiered on November 10, 1937 in Buenos Aires.-Cast:*Anselmo Aieta*Óscar Alonso*Francisco Álvarez*Enrique Arellano...

 
Lisandro de la Tea  Francisco Álvarez, Oscar Villa
Fuera de la ley
Fuera de la ley
Outside the Law is a 1937 Argentine thriller film directed and written by Manuel Romero. The film premiered on 12 May 1940 in the United States...

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Luis Arata, José Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...

, Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba was an Argentine film actress of the classic era.She entered the film industry in 1932 and appeared in over 30 films, spanning 65 years of Argentine film. She appeared in films such as Fuera de la ley 1937 and Atorrante . She retired in 1997.-Filmography:*Mundo contra mí, El *Eva...

, Susy Derqui
Thriller 
El Forastero
El Forastero
El Forastero is a 1937 Argentine film directed by Antonio Ber Ciani....

 
Antonio ber Cianni  Eloy Álvarez, Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba was an Argentine film actress of the classic era.She entered the film industry in 1932 and appeared in over 30 films, spanning 65 years of Argentine film. She appeared in films such as Fuera de la ley 1937 and Atorrante . She retired in 1997.-Filmography:*Mundo contra mí, El *Eva...

, Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence is an Argentine film actress.-Career:Born as María Amelia Botwinik, Amelia Bence is one of the divas of the Golden Age of the Argentinian cinema...

La fuga
La Fuga
La Fuga is an Argentine 2001 film directed by Eduardo Mignogna.The picture stars Mignogna's friend and frequent collaborator, Ricardo Darin, as well as Miguel Angel Sola, Gerardo Romano, Patricio Contreras, Ines Estevez, Alejandro Awada and Norma Aleandro.-Plot:In the summer of 1928, seven inmates...

 
Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Tita Merello
Tita Merello
Laura Ana Merello best known as Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer...


Francisco Petrone
Francisco Petrone
Francisco Petrone was an Argentine film actor.He is best known for his roles in the 1940s in the classic film La Guerra Gaucha and Todo un hombre for which he won the Silver Condor award for Best Actor....

Romantic drama tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Released July 28
Mateo
Mateo (film)
Mateo is a 1937 Argentine drama film directed and written by Mario Soffici....

 
Daniel Tinayre
Daniel Tinayre
Daniel Tinayre was a French born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer....

Ada Cornaro
Ada Cornaro
Ada Cornaro was a prominent Argentine film and theatre actress, tango dancer and singer of the 1930s and 1940s.Although she entered film in 1924 her claim to fame was in the 1930 tango film hit Adiós Argentina in which she starred alongside icon Libertad Lamarque.She appeared in tango films such...

, Arturo Artari, Jose Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...

Released:July 22
Melgarejo
Melgarejo
Melgarejo is a 1937 Argentine film directed and written by Luis Moglia Barth. The film premiered in the US on September 19 1937 and starred Santiago Gómez Cou and Mecha Ortiz.Editing to the film was performed by Carlos Rinaldi.-Plot Outline:...

 
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth was an Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era. He directed some 30 films between 1927 and 1959, often screenwriting for his pictures.He directed films such as Los tres berretines and Amalia...

 
Mecha Ortiz
Mecha Ortiz
Maria Mercedes Varela Nimo Dominguez Castro de Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981. Beginning in 1954 film El Abuelo . Her last appearance on film was in 1981. She died in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 87.-Family:Her husband, Julián Ortiz, was a...

, Santiago Gómez Cou
Santiago Gómez Cou
Santiago Gómez Cou was a classic Uruguayan - Argentine actor who appeared in films between 1936 and 1980.Born in Montevideo Uruguay, Cou moved to Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a screen actor. He appeared in his first film in 1936...

, Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia was an Argentine film actor and film director of the classic era of the Cinema of Argentina....

Melodías porteñas
Melodías porteñas
Melodías porteñas is a 1937 Argentine musical film directed and written by Luis Moglia Barth.-Cast:*Rosita Contreras*Enrique Santos Discépolo*Amanda Ledesma*Marcos Caplán*Ernesto Raquén*Juan Bono*Pascual Pelliciota*Guillermo Battaglia...

 
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth was an Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era. He directed some 30 films between 1927 and 1959, often screenwriting for his pictures.He directed films such as Los tres berretines and Amalia...

 
Oscar Villa
Nobleza gaucha  Sebastián M. Naón Marcelo Ruggero
Murió el sargento Laprida
Murió el sargento Laprida
Murió el sargento Laprida is a 1937 Argentine film directed by Tito Davison.-Cast:* Mario Danesi* Alberto de Mendoza * Maria Esther Duckse* Celia Gámez...

 
La muchacha del circo
La Muchacha del circo
La Muchacha del circo is a 1937 Argentine film directed and written by Francisco Mugica....

 
Tito Davison
Tito Davison
Tito Davison was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1937 and 1982.-Selected filmography:* Sombras de gloria * Murió el sargento Laprida...

 
Mario Danesi, Alberto de Mendoza
Alberto de Mendoza
Alberto de Mendoza is actor in Argentine cinema, who has appeared in some 114 films between 1930 and 2005 spanning eight decades....

 
Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Muchachos de la ciudad
Muchachos de la ciudad
Muchachos de la ciudad is a 1937 Argentine film directed and written by José A. Ferreyra.-Cast:*Carlos Dante* Salvador Arcella - Lisandro * Antonio Ber Ciani - Malamuzza* Floren Delbene - Julio Eduardo...

 
José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Ferreyra began acting for film in 1926 and made some 60 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1969 appearing in films such as Amalia and Ayúdame a Vivir in 1936 and Besos Brujos often working alongside Libertad Lamarque...

Los Muchachos de antes no usaban gomina  Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Mecha Ortiz
Mecha Ortiz
Maria Mercedes Varela Nimo Dominguez Castro de Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981. Beginning in 1954 film El Abuelo . Her last appearance on film was in 1981. She died in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 87.-Family:Her husband, Julián Ortiz, was a...

, Santiago Arrieta, Hugo del Carril
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...

 Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba was an Argentine film actress of the classic era.She entered the film industry in 1932 and appeared in over 30 films, spanning 65 years of Argentine film. She appeared in films such as Fuera de la ley 1937 and Atorrante . She retired in 1997.-Filmography:*Mundo contra mí, El *Eva...

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

Palermo
Palermo
Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...

 
La Vuelta de Rocha
La Vuelta de Rocha
La Vuelta de Rocha is a 1937 Argentine film directed and written by Manuel Romero....

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

 
Released September 8
Viejo barrio
Viejo barrio
Viejo barrio is a 1937 Argentine film directed and written by Manuel Romero....

 
Isidoro Navarro 
Viento norte
Viento norte
Viento norte is a 1937 Argentine film directed by Mario Soffici....

 
Enrique Muiño, Elías Alippi, Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia was an Argentine film actor and film director of the classic era of the Cinema of Argentina....

, Rosa Contreras
Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
Released September 15
La Virgencita de madera
La Virgencita de madera
La Virgencita de madera is a 1937 Argentine film directed by Sebastián Naón....

 
Sebastián M. Naón Carlos Castro Romantic drama  Released April 23
El Pobre Pérez  Jose Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...

 

1938
1938 in film
The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. Ray Bolger is cast as the "Tinman" and Buddy Ebsen is cast as the "Scarecrow". At Bolger's insistence,...

Title Director Actors Genre Notability
'Adiós Buenos Aires  Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer...

 
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

, Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence is an Argentine film actress.-Career:Born as María Amelia Botwinik, Amelia Bence is one of the divas of the Golden Age of the Argentinian cinema...

 
19 January
El canillita y la dama
El Canillita y la dama
The Newsie and the Lady is a 1938 Argentine film directed and written by Luis César Amadori....

 
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini was a prolific Argentine comic film actor and film producer. He has made over 80 appearances in film between 1933 and 1980....

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Released in the US
Los Caranchos de la Florida
Los Caranchos de la Florida
Los caranchos de la Florida is a 1938 Argentine drama film directed and written by Alberto De Zavalia with Carlos Aden. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred José Gola and Amelia Bence.The film is based on a novel by Benito Lynch....

 
Alberto De Zavalia
Alberto de Zavalía
Alberto De Zavalia was an Argentine film director and film producer.- Biography :De Zavalía was born in Buenos Aires to a middle-class, well-off family. He completed law school but never worked as a lawyer, instead dedicating himself to movie-making, an industry that was then thriving...

Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence is an Argentine film actress.-Career:Born as María Amelia Botwinik, Amelia Bence is one of the divas of the Golden Age of the Argentinian cinema...

Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
El Casamiento de Chichilo
El Casamiento de Chichilo
El Casamiento de Chichilo is a 1938 Argentine comedy film. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Isidoro Navarro  Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
La Chismosa
La Chismosa
La Chismosa is a 1938 Argentine film. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Luis Marquina
Luis Marquina
Luis Marquina was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.- External links :...

, Enrique Susini
Maria Armand Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Con las alas rotas
Con las alas rotas
With Broken Wings is a 1938 Argentine drama film directed by Orestes Caviglia. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia
Orestes Caviglia was an Argentine film actor and film director of the classic era of the Cinema of Argentina....

 
Mecha Ortiz
Mecha Ortiz
Maria Mercedes Varela Nimo Dominguez Castro de Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981. Beginning in 1954 film El Abuelo . Her last appearance on film was in 1981. She died in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 87.-Family:Her husband, Julián Ortiz, was a...

, Miguel Faust Rocha, Ángel Magaña
Ángel Magaña
Ángel Magaña was an Argentine film actor who appeared in some of Argentina's notable films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.He was married to Nuri Montsé-Filmography:#Hotel de señoritas...

De la sierra al valle
De la sierra al valle
From the Hills to the Valley is a 1938 Argentine drama film directed by Antonio Per Ciani. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Antonio Ber Ciani Alberto Gómez
Alberto Gómez
Alberto Jesús "Hijitus" Gómez Franzutti is a retired Argentine football player.-Career:Gómez began his playing career with Argentine first division club Rosario Central. He made his league debut against Argentinos Juniors in 1968....

, Salvador Arcella, Roberto Blanco
El Diablo con faldas
El Diablo con faldas
El diablo con faldas is a 1938 Argentine drama film directed by Ivo Pelay. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Ivo Pelay
Ivo Pelay
Ivo Pelay was one of Argentina's most prolific playwrights of the early 20th century.Born Guillermo Juan Robustiano Pichot in Buenos Aires, Pelay wrote over 200 plays in his lifetime, beginning with La Mala Vida in 1911. Perhaps his most famous work is his 1925 nationalist dramedy La canción de...

 
Florencio Parravicini, Celia Gámez
Celia Gámez
Celia Gámez was a Argentian film actress, and one of the icons of the Golden Age of Spanish theatre golden era. She was more commonly known in the Spain of Franco´s particularly in her later years with The Protegida....

, Pedro Maratea, María Santos
Maria Santos
Maria Carlos Martins dos Santos is a retired female backstroke and medley swimmer from Portugal, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.-References:*...

Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
Dos amigos y un amor
Dos amigos y un amor
Dos amigos y un amor is a 1938 Argentine musical film comedy directed by Lucas Demare. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Lucas Demare
Lucas Demare
Lucas Demare was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer prominent in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s....

 
Pepe Iglesias
Pepe Iglesias
Pepe Iglesias , full name José Ángel Iglesias Sánchez, nicknamed El Zorro , was an Argentine comedian, who, though he developed much of his career in his home country, also spent time in Chile and Spain.-Biography:Son of Spanish immigrants, he developed his career in his native land of Argentina,...


Juan Carlos Thorry
Juan Carlos Thorry
Born José Antonio Torrontegui and known as Juan Carlos Thorry was an Argentine film actor, tango musician and director....

, Norma Castillo, Santiago Gómez Cou
Santiago Gómez Cou
Santiago Gómez Cou was a classic Uruguayan - Argentine actor who appeared in films between 1936 and 1980.Born in Montevideo Uruguay, Cou moved to Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a screen actor. He appeared in his first film in 1936...

 
Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 
Francisci Canaro stars
La Estancia de gaucho Cruz
La Estancia de gaucho Cruz
La Estancia de gaucho Cruz is a 1938 Argentine comedy film directed by Leopoldo Torres Rios. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Leopoldo Torres Rios
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer...

 
José Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...

, Rosa Rosen, Francisco Álvarez 
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Maestro Levita
Maestro Levita
Maestro Levita is a 1938 Argentine film directed by Luis César Amadori. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Luis Cesar Amadori
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

Pepe Arias, Mecha Ortiz
Mecha Ortiz
Maria Mercedes Varela Nimo Dominguez Castro de Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981. Beginning in 1954 film El Abuelo . Her last appearance on film was in 1981. She died in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 87.-Family:Her husband, Julián Ortiz, was a...

, Juan Carlos Thorry
Juan Carlos Thorry
Born José Antonio Torrontegui and known as Juan Carlos Thorry was an Argentine film actor, tango musician and director....

, Aída Olivier, Miguel Gómez Bao
Madreselva
Madreselva
Madreselva is a 1938 Argentine musical film directed by Luis César Amadori. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Hugo del Carril and Libertad Lamarque....

 
Luis Cesar Amadori
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...

, Hugo del Carril
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
La Vuelta al nido
La Vuelta al nido
La Vuelta al nido is a 1938 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torres Rios. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Amelia Bence....

 
Leopoldo Torres Rios
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer...

 
José Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...

, Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence is an Argentine film actress.-Career:Born as María Amelia Botwinik, Amelia Bence is one of the divas of the Golden Age of the Argentinian cinema...

 
Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
Villa Discordia
Villa Discordia
Villa Discordia is a 1938 Argentine film directed by Arturo S. Mom. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Arturo S. Mom
Arturo S. Mom
Arturo S. Mom was an Argentine screenwriter and film director of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s....

Delia Garcés
Delia Garcés
Delia Garcés was an Argentine film actress of the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959.Garcés began her acting career in 1937...

, Santiago Gómez Cou
Santiago Gómez Cou
Santiago Gómez Cou was a classic Uruguayan - Argentine actor who appeared in films between 1936 and 1980.Born in Montevideo Uruguay, Cou moved to Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a screen actor. He appeared in his first film in 1936...

, Gloria Ferrandiz
Gloria Ferrandiz
Gloria Ferrandiz was an Argentine actress of the classic Argentine cinema era. She starred in over 40 films, including the 1962 film Una Jaula no tiene secretos.-External links:. ....

, Juan Carlos Thorry
Juan Carlos Thorry
Born José Antonio Torrontegui and known as Juan Carlos Thorry was an Argentine film actor, tango musician and director....

La que no perdonó
La que no perdonó
La que no perdonó is a 1938 Argentine film directed by José A. Ferreyra. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

 
Eloy Álvarez
Salvador Arcella
Roberto Blanco
Roberto Blanco
Roberto Blanco , was born 7 June 1937 in Tunis, Tunisia. Of Afro-Cuban origin, Blanco is a German-speaking Schlager singer and actor.-Early life:...

Written by Hugo Wast
Hugo Wast
Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría , best known under his pseudonym Hugo Wast, was a renowned Argentine novelist and script writer....


Released 14 September 1938
La Ley que olvidaron
La Ley que olvidaron
The Law They Forgot is a 1938 Argentine musical film drama directed by José A. Ferreyra. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
José A. Ferreyra
José A. Ferreyra
José A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...

 
Salvador Arcella, Santiago Arrieta, Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...

Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Kilómetro 111
Kilómetro 111
Kilómetro 111 is a 1938 Argentine musical film drama directed by Mario Soffici. The film premiered in Buenos Aires.The film is one of several films directed by Soffici which address the social evils of historical Argentina. The film is based on Carlos Olivari's play La tercera invasion inglesa ,...

 
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

August 31. Written by Carlos A. Olivari
Carlos A. Olivari
Carlos A. Olivari was an Argentine screenwriter whose career was at its peak in the 1940s.Olivari wrote the scripts for almost 50 films between 1938 and 1965...

Jettatore
Jettatore
Jettatore is a 1938 Argentine musical drama film directed by Luis Bayon Herrera. The film premiered in Buenos Aires on August 10, 1938 and starred Tito Lusiardo and Pedro Quartucci.It is a tango musical and is based on a play by Gregorio de Laferrere....

 
Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera was Spanish film director and screenwriter who worked in Argentine film of the 1940s and 1950s....

 
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

, Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci was an Argentine boxer and actor.-Boxing career:As a featherweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s, he won a bronze medal in Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the featherweight division, losing against Joseph Salas in the semi-final.-Acting career:He then pursued...

Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
El Gran camarada
El Gran camarada
El Gran camarada is a 1938 Argentine film directed by Yago Blass. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Yago Blass  Max Citelli
Max Citelli
Max Citelli was an Argentine film actor, active during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema between 1936 and 1959.-Filmography:*Mi esqueleto *El festín de Satanás *Fantoche *Cuando los duendes cazan perdices *Mi viudo y yo...

, César Mariño
Noches de carnaval  Julio Saraceni
Julio Saraceni
Julio Saraceni was a prolific Argentine film director whose career in the Cinema of Argentina as a movie director spanned six decades....

 
Enrique Arellano, Rosita Contreras
Mujeres que trabajan
Mujeres que trabajan
Women Who Work is a 1938 Argentine comedy film drama directed by Manuel Romero. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Tito Lusiardo.-Cast:*Mecha Ortiz... Ana María del Solar*Tito Lusiardo ... Lorenzo Ramos*Niní Marshall ... Catita...

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Mecha Ortiz
Mecha Ortiz
Maria Mercedes Varela Nimo Dominguez Castro de Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981. Beginning in 1954 film El Abuelo . Her last appearance on film was in 1981. She died in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 87.-Family:Her husband, Julián Ortiz, was a...

, Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

, Niní Marshall
Niní Marshall
Niní Marshall was a popular Argentine comedienne and actress.-Life and work:She was born Marina Esther Traveso in Buenos Aires to Pedro and María Ángela Traveso, a well-to-do family in Rosario, in 1903...

 
El Mono relojero
El Mono relojero
El Mono relojero is a 1938 Argentine animated short film directed by Quirino Cristiani. It is the only film from this director that exists up to this day, since all his other productions were lost in a series of fires at the...

 
Quirino Cristiani
Quirino Cristiani
Quirino Cristiani was an Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire...

 
Animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 
Nace un amor  Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

José Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...


Roberto Blanco
Roberto Blanco
Roberto Blanco , was born 7 June 1937 in Tunis, Tunisia. Of Afro-Cuban origin, Blanco is a German-speaking Schlager singer and actor.-Early life:...

Pampa y cielo
Pampa y cielo
Pampa y cielo is a 1938 Argentine film directed by Raul Garruchada. The film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Raúl Gurruchaga Aída Alberti
Aída Alberti
Aída Alberti was a retired Argentine film actress of the 1940s and 1950s.She entered film in 1938 in Pampa y cielo followed by Atorrante in 1939.In 1946 she appeared in Albergue de mujeres with Orestes Caviglia....

, Óscar Alonso, Francisco Álvarez
Written by Alberto Vaccarezza
Alberto Vaccarezza
Bartolomé Ángel Venancio Alberto Vaccarezza was an Argentine poet and playwright.Vaccarezza was born in Buenos Aires on April 1, 1886. He is usually credited as the foremost exponent of the sainete genre, having written its most popular play, El Conventillo de La Paloma...


Release Date:24 August 1938

1939
1939 in film
The year 1939 in motion pictures can be justified as being called the most outstanding one ever, when it comes to the high quality and high attendance at the large set of the best films that premiered in the year .- Events :Motion picture historians and film often rate...

Title Director Actors Genre Notability
Ambición
Ambición
Ambición is a 1939 Argentine film directed by Adelqui Migliar and written by José B. Cairola. The film starred Floren Delbene and Fanny Navarro...

 
Adelqui Migliar
Adelqui Migliar
Adelqui Migliar , also known als Adelqui Millar, was a Chilean film actor, director, writer and producer. He appeared in 31 silent films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 24 films between 1922 and 1954....

 
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Ferreyra began acting for film in 1926 and made some 60 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1969 appearing in films such as Amalia and Ayúdame a Vivir in 1936 and Besos Brujos often working alongside Libertad Lamarque...

, Armando Bo
Armando Bo
Armando Bó was an Argentine film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and score composer of the classic era...

 
Debut of Armando Bo
Armando Bo
Armando Bó was an Argentine film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and score composer of the classic era...

Así es la vida
Such Is Life (1939 film)
Such Is Life is a 1939 Argentine romantic drama film musical directed by Francisco Múgica based on a play by Nicolás de las Llanderas and Arnaldo Malfatti; starring Enrique Muiño.-Plot summary:...

 
Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica was an Argentine film director, film editor and cinematographer....

 
Enrique Muiño Based on a play by Nicolás de las Llanderas and Arnaldo Malfatti
Atorrante
Atorrante
Atorrante is a 1939 Argentine film directed and written by Enrique de Rosas with Vicente Martínez Cuitiño.The film starred Enrique DeRosas and Irma Córdoba.-Cast:*Enrique DeRosas*Irma Córdoba*Aída Alberti*Héctor Coire*Cirilo Etulain*Carlos Fioriti...

 
Enrique de Rosas Enrique de Rosas, Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba was an Argentine film actress of the classic era.She entered the film industry in 1932 and appeared in over 30 films, spanning 65 years of Argentine film. She appeared in films such as Fuera de la ley 1937 and Atorrante . She retired in 1997.-Filmography:*Mundo contra mí, El *Eva...

, Aída Alberti
Aída Alberti
Aída Alberti was a retired Argentine film actress of the 1940s and 1950s.She entered film in 1938 in Pampa y cielo followed by Atorrante in 1939.In 1946 she appeared in Albergue de mujeres with Orestes Caviglia....

, Ana May
Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
Caminito de Gloria
Caminito de Gloria
Caminito de Gloria is a 1939 Argentine romantic drama film directed and written by Luis César Amadori with Francisco Oyarzábal.The film starred Libertad Lamarque.-Cast:*Roberto Airaldi*Emperatriz Carvajal*Miguel Gómez Bao*Libertad Lamarque...

 
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque
Libertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...

Caras argentinas
Caras argentinas
Caras argentinas is a 1939 Argentine musical film drama directed by Carmello Santiago. The film premiered in Buenos Aires on May 18, 1939....

 
Carmelo Santiago Francisco de Paula, Elisa Galvé, Miguel Lemem, Aída Vignan Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Chimbela
Chimbela
Chimbela is a 1939 Argentine musical film drama directed by José A. Ferreyra. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Floren Delbene and Armando Bo....

 
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene
Floren Delbene was an Argentine film actor of the classic era.Ferreyra began acting for film in 1926 and made some 60 film appearances between then and his retirement in 1969 appearing in films such as Amalia and Ayúdame a Vivir in 1936 and Besos Brujos often working alongside Libertad Lamarque...


Armando Bo
Armando Bo
Armando Bó was an Argentine film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and score composer of the classic era...

Written by Antonio Botta
Cuatro corazones  Carlos Schlieper
Carlos Schlieper
Carlos Schlieper was an Argentine film director and screenwriter of the classic era.He directed some 30 films between 1939 and 1957, writing for over 20 of them, films such as Alejandra in 1956....

Irma Cordoba
Irma Córdoba
Irma Córdoba was an Argentine film actress of the classic era.She entered the film industry in 1932 and appeared in over 30 films, spanning 65 years of Argentine film. She appeared in films such as Fuera de la ley 1937 and Atorrante . She retired in 1997.-Filmography:*Mundo contra mí, El *Eva...

Cándida
Cándida
Cándida is a 1939 Argentine musical film drama directed by Luis Bayon Herrera. The tango film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Juan Carlos Thorry.-Cast:* Niní Marshall ... Cándida* Augusto Codecá ... Jesús...

 
Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera was Spanish film director and screenwriter who worked in Argentine film of the 1940s and 1950s....

Juan Carlos Thorry
Juan Carlos Thorry
Born José Antonio Torrontegui and known as Juan Carlos Thorry was an Argentine film actor, tango musician and director....

Divorcio en Montevideo  Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

Niní Marshall
Niní Marshall
Niní Marshall was a popular Argentine comedienne and actress.-Life and work:She was born Marina Esther Traveso in Buenos Aires to Pedro and María Ángela Traveso, a well-to-do family in Rosario, in 1903...

, Enrique Serrano
Enrique Serrano
Enrique Serrano was an Argentine actor and comedian in the 1940s and 1950s.He appeared in many films of the 1940s and 1950s including Muchachas que estudian, Asi es la vida .He starred in some 40 films between 1935 and 1964....

, Sabina Olmos
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Doce mujeres
Doce mujeres
Twelve Women is a 1939 Argentine film directed by Luis Moglia Barth. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Roberto Escalada....

 
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth
Luis Moglia Barth was an Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era. He directed some 30 films between 1927 and 1959, often screenwriting for his pictures.He directed films such as Los tres berretines and Amalia...

 
Roberto Escalada
Roberto Escalada
Roberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero was a major Argentine film actor and cinema icon of the classic era....

Entre el barro
Entre el barro
Entre el barro is a 1939 Argentine musical film directed by Luis Bayon Herrera. The tango film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Tito Lusiardo....

 
Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera
Luis Bayón Herrera was Spanish film director and screenwriter who worked in Argentine film of the 1940s and 1950s....

 
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

La Hija del viejito guardafaro
La Hija del viejito guardafaro
La Hija del viejito guardafaro is a 1939 Argentine film directed by Julio Irigoyen. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Enrique del Cerro....

 
Julio Irigoyen
Julio Irigoyen
Julio Irigoyen was an Argentine film director.Irigoyen began directing in 1923. His first film was De Nuestras Pampas. He directed films such as the 1942 film Academia El Tango Argentino....

Enrique del Cerro
Hermanos
Hermanos
Hermanos is a 1939 Argentine drama film directed by Enrique de Rosas. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Jose Gola and Amelia Bence....

 
Enrique de Rosas  Jose Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...


Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence
Amelia Bence is an Argentine film actress.-Career:Born as María Amelia Botwinik, Amelia Bence is one of the divas of the Golden Age of the Argentinian cinema...

El Grito de la juventud
El Grito de la juventud
El Grito de la juventud is a 1939 Argentine comedy drama film directed by Brazilian director Raul Roulien. The film premiered in Buenos Aires on 24 September 1939 and starred Vicente Climent....

 
Raul Roulien  Vicente Climente Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

-drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
Directed by a Brazilian film director
La Intrusa  Julio Saraceni
Julio Saraceni
Julio Saraceni was a prolific Argentine film director whose career in the Cinema of Argentina as a movie director spanned six decades....

 
María Esther Buschiazzo
María Esther Buschiazzo
-Filmography:*Hombre de la esquina rosada *La patota *Fantoche *Cuando los duendes cazan perdices *Los troperos *´Ellos nos hicieron así *La casa grande * Deshonra *Reportaje en el infierno...

, Héctor Calcaño
Héctor Calcaño
Héctor Calcaño was an Argentine film actor. He appeared in nearly 70 films between 1933 and 1968.-Filmography:1. Este cura ... aka Operación San Antonio 2. Señora del intendente, La .... Mezadra...

, Olga Casares Pearson
Olga Casares Pearson
Olga Casares Pearson was an Argentine actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She first appeared in film in 1929 but it wasn't until ten years later that her career took off in Argentine cinema....

, Tito Climent
La Mujer y el jockey (Hipódromo)
La Mujer y el jockey (Hipódromo)
La Mujer y el jockey is a 1939 Argentine romantic comedy film directed by José Suárez and written by Antonio Botta. The film premiered in Buenos Aires on December 21, 1939.-Cast:*Alicia Barrié*Antonio Capuano*Dringue Farías...

 
José Suárez
José Suárez
-Career:José Suárez made his debut in a short role in Altar Mayor , a very conventional film, whose director, Gonzalo Delgrás, had paid attention to him in his work as a train conductor in Asturias...

 
Severo Fernández Romantic comedy
Romantic Comedy
Romantic Comedy can refer to* Romantic Comedy , a 1979 play written by Bernard Slade* Romantic Comedy , a 1983 film adapted from the play and starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen...

 
Gente bien
Gente bien
Gente bien is a 1939 Argentine musical film directed by Manuel Romero. The tango film premiered in Buenos Aires on June 28, 1939 and the United States on October 8, 1939 and starred Hugo del Carril, Tito Lusiardo and Delia Garcés....

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

Hugo del Carril
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...

, Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

, Delia Garcés
Delia Garcés
Delia Garcés was an Argentine film actress of the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959.Garcés began her acting career in 1937...

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 
Music by Francisco Canaro
Francisco Canaro
Francisco Canaro was an Uruguayan-Argentine violinist and tango orchestra leader.His parents, Italians emigrated to Uruguay, and later - when Francisco Canaro was less than 10 years old, they emigrated to Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay,...

Nuestra tierra de paz
Nuestra tierra de paz
Nuestra tierra de paz is a 1939 Argentine biographical film directed by Arturo S. Mom. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Warly Ceriani.-Plot:...

 
Arturo S. Mom
Arturo S. Mom
Arturo S. Mom was an Argentine screenwriter and film director of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s....

 
Warly Ceriani
Warly Ceriani
Warly Ceriani was a classic Argentine actor who appeared in major Argentine films between 1938 and 1959.Ceriani made almost 50 film appearances in Argentina between 1938 and 1959 appearing in films such as the 1942 Julio Irigoyen film Academia El Tango Argentino.-Selected filmography:* La Bestia...

Biographical
Biographical film
A biographical film, or biopic , is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their...

 
Biography of General José de San Martín
José de San Martín
José Francisco de San Martín, known simply as Don José de San Martín , was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes , he left his mother country at the...

 (1778–1850)
Los pagarés de Mendieta
Los Pagares de Mendieta
Los Pagares de Mendieta is a 1939 Argentine comedy film directed by Leopoldo Torres Ríos. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Tito Lusiardo....

 
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos
Leopoldo Torres Ríos was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer...

Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

Comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
Puerta cerrada
Puerta cerrada
Puerta cerrada is a 1939 Argentine musical film tango directed by John Alton and Luis Saslavsky. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Warly Ceriani....

 
John Alton
John Alton
John Alton A.S.C. , born Johann Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer...

, Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky
Luis Saslavsky was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

Warly Ceriani
Warly Ceriani
Warly Ceriani was a classic Argentine actor who appeared in major Argentine films between 1938 and 1959.Ceriani made almost 50 film appearances in Argentina between 1938 and 1959 appearing in films such as the 1942 Julio Irigoyen film Academia El Tango Argentino.-Selected filmography:* La Bestia...

Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 tango
La Vida es un tango
La Vida es un tango
La Vida es un tango is a 1939 Argentine musical film directed by Manuel Romero. The tango film starred Tito Lusiardo and Hugo del Carril....

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo
Tito Lusiardo was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era.Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor....

, Hugo del Carril
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...

Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 
La Vida de Carlos Gardel
La Vida de Carlos Gardel
La Vida de Carlos Gardel is a 1939 Argentine musical film directed by Alberto De Zavalia. The tango film premiered in Buenos Aires on May 24, 1939, and starred Hugo del Carril and Delia Garces....

 
Alberto de Zavalia
Alberto de Zavalía
Alberto De Zavalia was an Argentine film director and film producer.- Biography :De Zavalía was born in Buenos Aires to a middle-class, well-off family. He completed law school but never worked as a lawyer, instead dedicating himself to movie-making, an industry that was then thriving...

 
Hugo del Carril
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...

, Delia Garcés
Delia Garcés
Delia Garcés was an Argentine film actress of the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959.Garcés began her acting career in 1937...

Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

 musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 
May 24, 1939
El Viejo doctor
El Viejo doctor
The Good Doctor is a 1939 Argentine film directed by Mario Soffici. The film premiered in Buenos Aires on January 18, 1939 and starred Enrique Muiño.-Cast:*Roberto Airaldi*Gloria Bayardo*Dolores Dardes*Armando Durán*Inés Edmonson*Cirilo Etulain...

 
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

 
Enrique Muiño
Palabra de honor
Palabra de honor
Palabra de honor is a 1939 Argentine comedy film directed by Luis Cesar Amadori. The film premiered on May 10, 1939 in Buenos Aires and starred Luis Sandrini....

 
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini
Luis Sandrini was a prolific Argentine comic film actor and film producer. He has made over 80 appearances in film between 1933 and 1980....

, Nuri Montsé
Nuri Montsé
Nuri Montsé was a Spanish Argentine film actress of the 1930s and 1940s.She made over 20 appearance in Argentine cinema between 1936 and 1946.-External links:...

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Una Mujer de la calle
Una Mujer de la calle
A Woman from the Street is a 1939 Argentine comedy film directed by Luis Moglia Barth. The film premiered on August 23, 1939 in Buenos Aires and starred Aida Alberti....

 
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori
Luis César Amadori was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

Aída Alberti
Aída Alberti
Aída Alberti was a retired Argentine film actress of the 1940s and 1950s.She entered film in 1938 in Pampa y cielo followed by Atorrante in 1939.In 1946 she appeared in Albergue de mujeres with Orestes Caviglia....

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Nativa
Nativa
Nativa was a carbonated beverage created by the Coca-Cola Company. It was released in November 2003 in Argentina, and discontinued in August 2004...

 
Enrique de Rosas  Pedro Aleandro, Santiago Arrieta
Muchachas que estudian
Muchachas que estudian
Muchachas que estudian is a 1939 Argentine comedy film directed and written by Manuel Romero. The film premiered on September 6, 1939 in Buenos Aires and starred Sofía Bozán, Enrique Serrano and Delia Garcés.-Cast:*Sofía Bozán ... Luisa...

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Sofía Bozán
Sofía Bozán
Sofía Bozán was an Argentine film actress and tango performer of the 1930s and 1940s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959....


Delia Garcés
Delia Garcés
Delia Garcés was an Argentine film actress of the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959.Garcés began her acting career in 1937...

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
Editing by Juan Soffici
La Modelo de la calle Florida
La Modelo de la calle Florida
La Modelo de la calle Florida is a 1939 Argentine musical film directed by Julio Irigoyen. The tango film premiered in Buenos Aires....

 
Julio Irigoyen
Julio Irigoyen
Julio Irigoyen was an Argentine film director.Irigoyen began directing in 1923. His first film was De Nuestras Pampas. He directed films such as the 1942 film Academia El Tango Argentino....

 
La modelo y la estrella
La Modelo y la estrella
The Model and the Star is a 1939 Argentine comedy film directed by Manuel Romero. The film premiered on March 15, 1939 in Buenos Aires and starred Alita Román.-Cast:*Alita Román ... Gloria*Fernando Borel ... Jorge*June Marlowe ... Barbara...

 
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...

 
Alita Román
Alita Román
Alita Román , was an Argentine film actress She starred in nearly 50 films between 1934 and 1982.Roman made her debut in 1935 in the film La Barra Mendocina and in 1960 appeared in the Antonio Cunill Jr...

, Carlos Bertoldi
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 
March 15 1939
El Loco Serenata 
Mandinga en la sierra  Isidoro Navarro  Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci was an Argentine boxer and actor.-Boxing career:As a featherweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s, he won a bronze medal in Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the featherweight division, losing against Joseph Salas in the semi-final.-Acting career:He then pursued...

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 
Margarita, Armando y su padre
Margarita, Armando y su padre
Margarita, Armando y su padre is a 1939 Argentine romantic comedy film directed by Francisco Múgica. The film is based a play by Enrique Jardiel Poncela who himself adapted the film for the silver screen. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Mecha Ortiz and Pedro Quartucci.Production...

 
Francisco Mugica
Francisco Múgica
Francisco Múgica was an Argentine film director, film editor and cinematographer....

 
Mecha Ortiz
Mecha Ortiz
Maria Mercedes Varela Nimo Dominguez Castro de Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981. Beginning in 1954 film El Abuelo . Her last appearance on film was in 1981. She died in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 87.-Family:Her husband, Julián Ortiz, was a...


Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci
Pedro Quartucci was an Argentine boxer and actor.-Boxing career:As a featherweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s, he won a bronze medal in Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the featherweight division, losing against Joseph Salas in the semi-final.-Acting career:He then pursued...

Romantic comedy
Romantic Comedy
Romantic Comedy can refer to* Romantic Comedy , a 1979 play written by Bernard Slade* Romantic Comedy , a 1983 film adapted from the play and starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen...

 
Frente a la vida  Jose Gola
José Gola
José Gola was an Argentine film actor of the 1930s who died at age 35.Born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gola began acting for film in the 1934 film Mañana es domingo...

El Matrero 
Prisioneros de la tierra
Prisioneros de la tierra
Prisioneros de la tierra is a 1939 Argentine drama film directed by Mario Soffici. The film premiered in Buenos Aires. The film is often cited as one of the greatest in the history of Argentine cinema, and established Soffici as a "social" filmmaker...

 
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...

Homero Cárpena,Raúl De Lange,Roberto Fugazot Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 

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