A Woman of No Importance (1945 film)

A Woman of No Importance
Directed byLuis Bayón Herrera
Written byOscar Wilde (play)
Arturo S. Mom
Luis Bayón Herrera
StarringMecha Ortiz
Santiago Gómez Cou
Golde Flami
Hugo Pimentel
CinematographyRoque Funes
Edited byJosé Cardella
Music byAlberto Soifer
Production
company
Establecimientos Filmadores Argentinos
Distributed byEstablecimientos Filmadores Argentinos
Release date
  • 1 March 1945 (1945-03-01)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

A Woman of No Importance (Spanish: Una mujer sin importancia) is a 1945 Argentine comedy drama film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by Luis Bayón Herrera and starring Mecha Ortiz, Santiago Gómez Cou, Golde Flami. The film is based on Oscar Wilde's 1894 play A Woman of No Importance with the action moved from London to Córdoba in central Argentina[1] and was consequently "not considered a good possibility for U. S. exhibition".[2]

Cast

  • Mecha Ortiz as Raquel Miramar
  • Santiago Gómez Cou as Jorge Nájera
  • Golde Flami as Sra. Allamby
  • Hugo Pimentel as Gerardo Miramar
  • Lidia Denis as Esther Jaunarena
  • Blanca Vidal as Juana
  • Lucía Barause as Vecina
  • Sara Barrié as Carolina
  • Yolanda Alessandrini as Sra.Sutfield
  • Yuki Nambá as Vecina 2
  • Lea Briand as Mujer 1
  • Margarita Burke as Mujer 2
  • César Mariño as Juan
  • Carlos Enríquez
  • Carlos A. Gordillo
  • Luis Quiles
  • Fanny Stein

Critical reception

A review in El Bien Público found that the production remained too close to the play and lacked proper cinematic features.[3]

The film is also listed in the Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos as one of the "unnecessary" literary adaptations that Spanish and Argentine screenwriters wrote during the 1940s.[4]

References

  1. ^ Tanitch p.206
  2. ^ Richard, Alfred Charles (1993). Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic image : an interpretive filmography, 1936-1955. Internet Archive. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28842-5.
  3. ^ Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1946-08-11). El Bien Público 21042.
  4. ^ Cultura Hispánica (1981). Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 367.

Bibliography

  • Tanitch, Robert. Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen. Methuen Publishing, 1999.


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