Nana is a 1944 Mexican film by Celestino Gorostiza

Celestino Gorostiza

Celestino Gorostiza Alcalá was a Mexican theater and cine playwright, director and dramatist.- Biography :...

 and Roberto Gavaldón

Roberto Gavaldón

Roberto Gavaldón was a Mexican film director.Eight of Gavaldón's films were featured on the list 100 Best Movies of the Cinema of Mexico...

. It is an adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Nana

Nana (novel)

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, the object of which was to tell "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire", the subtitle of the series.-Origins:A year...

. It was the last film of the Mexican star Lupe Vélez

Lupe Vélez

Lupe Vélez was a Mexican film actress. Vélez began her career in Mexico as a dancer, before moving to the U.S. where she worked in vaudeville. She was seen by Fanny Brice who promoted her, and Vélez soon entered films, making her first appearance in 1924. By the end of the decade she had...

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Plot

Based in the Emile Zola

Émile Zola

Émile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...

 same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the XIX Century.

Cast

• Lupe Vélez
  Lupe Vélez
  Lupe Vélez was a Mexican film actress. Vélez began her career in Mexico as a dancer, before moving to the U.S. where she worked in vaudeville. She was seen by Fanny Brice who promoted her, and Vélez soon entered films, making her first appearance in 1924. By the end of the decade she had...
  
   as Nana
• Miguel Angel Ferríz as Muffat
• Chela Castro as Rosa Mignon
• Crox Alvarado as Fontan
• Luis Alcoriza
  Luis Alcoriza
  Luis Alcoriza de la Vega was a respected Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor. His 1962 film Tlayucan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.- Screenwriter :...
  
   as De Fauchery

Production notes

This was the last movie for Lupe Vélez, who committed suicide later in the same year.
In 1985, Irma Serrano

Irma Serrano

Irma Serrano is a Mexican actress of film, television, and theater; and also a singer, screenwriter and politician. Thanks to her beauty, her figure and her way of being controversial, coming out of the standards of the time, Serrano managed to attract the attention of directors and producers, so...

 starred and produced in Mexico a new version. The cast includes Isela Vega

Isela Vega

Isela Vega Durazo is a Mexican actress, and occasional producer, writer, and director.- Career :In 1957, she was chosen "Princess of the Carnaval" in Hermosillo; shortly afterward she began modeling. In 1960 she began her acting career, which continues to this day...

 and Verónica Castro

Verónica Castro

Verónica Castro is a Mexican actress, singer and television host. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and filmmaker Michelle Sáinz Castro and the sister of actress Beatriz Castro,and telenovela producer José Alberto Castro....

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