Primero soy mexicano is a 1950

1950 in film

The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:*Ambush...

 Mexican drama

Drama

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-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...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 starring Joaquín Pardavé

Joaquín Pardavé

Joaquín Pardavé Arce was a Mexican film actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was best known for starring and directing various comedy films during the 1940s...

 (who also wrote and directed the film), Luis Aguilar

Luis Aguilar (actor)

Luis Aguilar Manzo was a Mexican film and television actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was also known as El Gallo Giro, and was noted for his performances in films as El 7 leguas and El látigo negro .Aguilar was born in Hermosillo, Sonora...

, and Flor Silvestre

Flor Silvestre (actress)

Flor Silvestre , is a Mexican actress, ranchera singer, and comic book superhero. She is regarded as one of the great "folklóricas" of Mexican cinema, Silvestre is also one of the principal cinematographic and musical stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema...

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Synopsis

Old hacendado don Ambrosio awaits the return of his son Rafael after ten years of studying medicine in the U.S. Although illiterate, Ambrosio is taught reading and writing by his orphaned goddaughter Lupe. When Rafael arrives, he seems to forget to be mexicano ("Mexican") and is ashamed of his Mexican roots as he refuses to be served "mole

Mole (sauce)

Mole is the generic name for a number of sauces used in Mexican cuisine, as well as for dishes based on these sauces...

" and rather asks for ham and eggs. He is suddenly attracted by Lupe, his father's goddaughter and seduces her. Ambrosio learned that she is pregnant, unbeknownst to Rafael. When Rafael plans to marry Sarita, a high-class lady, Ambrosio and Lupe head to Mexico City to reveal the truth and to prevent Rafael from marrying. He is eventually not married, but Fabián (Ambrosio's foreman) is in love with Lupe and is willing to marry her even though the child is Rafael. In the end, Rafael recuperates his Mexicaness and then proposes marriage to Lupe, and Ambrosio rests at last.

Cast

• Joaquín Pardavé
  Joaquín Pardavé
  Joaquín Pardavé Arce was a Mexican film actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was best known for starring and directing various comedy films during the 1940s...
  
   as don Ambrosio Fuentes
• Luis Aguilar
  Luis Aguilar (actor)
  Luis Aguilar Manzo was a Mexican film and television actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was also known as El Gallo Giro, and was noted for his performances in films as El 7 leguas and El látigo negro .Aguilar was born in Hermosillo, Sonora...
  
   - Rafael Fuentes
• Flor Silvestre
  Flor Silvestre (actress)
  Flor Silvestre , is a Mexican actress, ranchera singer, and comic book superhero. She is regarded as one of the great "folklóricas" of Mexican cinema, Silvestre is also one of the principal cinematographic and musical stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema...
  
   - Lupe
• Arturo Soto Rangel
  Arturo Soto Rangel
  Arturo Soto Rangel was a Mexican film, television, and stage actor. Rangel was best known for appearing in over 250 Mexican films. Rangel appeared in one American movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which won three Academy Awards and starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce...
  
   - don Matías
• Lupe Inclán - Chona
• Felipe Montoya
• Francisco Avitia
  Francisco Avitia
  Francisco Avitia Tapia, also known as El Charro Avitia, was a Mexican actor and singer. Born on May 13, 1915 in Valle de Zaragoza, Chihuahua; Avitia is known for songs such as "Maquina 501" and "Caballo alazán lucero". He also acted in films as Primero soy mexicano and El zurdo...
  
   - Fabián
• José Chávez (uncredited)
• José Escanero (uncredited)
• Raúl Guerrero (uncredited)
• Elodia Hernández - Sarita's mother (uncredited)
• Gloria Mange - Sarita (uncredited)
• Pepe Nava (uncredited)
• Humberto Rodríguez (uncredited)
• Hernán Vera (uncredited)

Production

The film marks singer Flor Silvestre's first starring role, after having appeared in Te besaré en la boca (1950) in a small role. Primero soy mexicano also appears to have been Francisco "Charro" Avitia's first incursion in Mexican cinema. The film was thirteenth film Pardavé directed, it was filmed with a Mitchell Camera

Mitchell Camera

Mitchell Camera Corporation was founded in 1919 by Henry Boger and George Alfred Mitchell. Their first camera was designed and patented by John E. Leonard in 1917, from 1920 on known as the Mitchell Standard...

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