Cándida (1939 film)

Cándida
Cándida
	Still with Niní Marshall
Directed by	Luis Bayon Herrera
Written by	Luis Bayon Herrera
Produced by	Luis Bayon Herrera
Release date	1939;
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

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.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she met a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.

Cast

Niní Marshall as Cándida
Augusto Codecá as Jesús
Juan Carlos Thorry as Dr. Adolfo Sánchez
Tulia Ciámpoli as Esther
César Fiaschi as Dr. Luis Giménez
Adolfo Stray as Jacobo
Nélida Bilbao as La dactilógrafa
Lita Fernand as Julia
Chiche Gicovatte as Julia
Cielito as Pepito
S. Tortorelli as Pepito
L.S. Pereyra as Augustito
Pedro González as El médico
Armando Durán as Agenciero
A. Porzio as El patotero

References

^ Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures1134788525 Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, Ana M. Lopez - 2002 Also significant, however, were the pachuco character personified by Tin Tan in Mexico, the brilliant comedienne, Nini Marshall (as either of her immigrant ethnic characters, 'Catita' or 'Candida') and Luis Sandrini in Argentina; Grande Otelo and Oscarito, the chanchada pair, and Mazzaropi, the caipira, in Brazil. By the 1960s and 1970s the Latin American 'star system' fell apart alongside the collapse of the traditional studio mode of production. Contemporary stars are more likely to ...
^ The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture 0521636515 John King - 2004 The Argentine Nini Marshall frequently reprised several stock characters including Catita, the foul-mouthed disruptive daughter of Italian immigrants and Candida, the gallega (Spanish) maid. In Brazil, the stars of chanchada and other film genres were Oscarito and Grande Otelo, who played quite subtly with hill-billy and racial stereotypes. Comedy remained a redoubt for national and popular sentiment in the face of Hollywood, a source of pride that there was a 'we', a community, who .

External links

Cándida at IMDb

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[1] Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures1134788525 Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, Ana M. Lopez - 2002 Also significant, however, were the pachuco character personified by Tin Tan in Mexico, the brilliant comedienne, Nini Marshall (as either of her immigrant ethnic characters, 'Catita' or 'Candida') and Luis Sandrini in Argentina; Grande Otelo and Oscarito, the chanchada pair, and Mazzaropi, the caipira, in Brazil. By the 1960s and 1970s the Latin American 'star system' fell apart alongside the collapse of the traditional studio mode of production. Contemporary stars are more likely to ...

[2] The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture 0521636515 John King - 2004 The Argentine Nini Marshall frequently reprised several stock characters including Catita, the foul-mouthed disruptive daughter of Italian immigrants and Candida, the gallega (Spanish) maid. In Brazil, the stars of chanchada and other film genres were Oscarito and Grande Otelo, who played quite subtly with hill-billy and racial stereotypes. Comedy remained a redoubt for national and popular sentiment in the face of Hollywood, a source of pride that there was a 'we', a community, who .

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