Frederica Montseny i Mañé was a Spanish anarchist and intellectual who served as Minister of Health and Social Assistance in the government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Civil War. She is known for being the first woman in Spanish history to be a cabinet minister and one of the first female ministers in Western Europe.
Amelia Bence was an Argentine film actress and one of the divas of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960).
Mecha Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in films between 1937 and 1981, during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. At the 1944 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Ortiz won the Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for her performance in Safo, historia de una pasión (1943), and won it again in 1946 for her performance in El canto del cisne (1945). She was known as the Argentine Greta Garbo and for playing mysterious characters, who suffered by past misfortunes in love, mental disorders, or forbidden love. Safo, historia de una pasión was the first erotic Argentine film, though there was no nudity. She also played in the first film in which a woman struck a man and the first film with a lesbian romance. In 1981, she was awarded the Grand Prize for actresses from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Daniel Tinayre was a French-born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Carlos Francisco Borcosque Sánchez was a Chilean film director and screenwriter involved in the production of the Cinema of Argentina.
Roberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero was an Argentine actor, an icon of the classic era of Argentine cinema.
Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero also known as Margarita Rosa and La Mencha is a Colombian actress, singer, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder.
Mi mujer está loca is a 1952 Argentine romantic comedy film directed by Carlos Schlieper and Enrique Cahen Salaberry, and starring Amelia Bence, Alberto Closas, and Amalia Sánchez Ariño.
Alberto Closas Lluró was a prolific Spanish film actor who appeared in the Cinema of Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s and in Spanish cinema after 1955.
Alita Blanca Barchigia, better known as Alita Román, was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960).
Sílvia Cartaña Ortega, better known as Sílvia Marsó is a Spanish film, stage and television actress and theatre producer. She started her career in the Televisión Española's game show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez.
Francisco "Paco" Madrid was a Spanish (Catalan) critic, editor, essayist, historian, journalist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He was also a politician.
Josefina Molina ReigMMT is a Spanish feature film director, screenwriter, TV producer and scene director. She was one of the first female directors in Spain and is also known for directing such notable feature films as Función de noche (1981) and Esquilache (1988), as well as the television series Teresa de Jesús (1984). Esquilache was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Teresa de Jesús won several awards, including the Antena de Oro (1984), and the TP de Oro.
Spain has two time zones. Spain mainly uses CET (UTC+01:00) in Peninsular Spain, Ceuta, Melilla and the plazas de soberanía. In the Canary Islands, the time zone is WET (UTC±00:00). In both territories, Ddaylight saving time is observed during summer months, meaning that mainland Spain uses CEST (UTC+02:00), whilst the Canary Islands uses WEST (UTC+01:00) between March and October.
Ana María Moix was a Spanish poet, novelist, short story writer, translator and editor. A member of the Novísimos, she was the younger sister of the writer, Terenci Moix.
The 1945 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards ceremony was held in Buenos Aires on 4 January 1945 to honour the best films and contributors to Argentine cinema in 1944.
Osvaldo Cattone was an Argentine actor who lived for over three decades in Peru and was considered one of the pioneer theater directors and actors of Peru.
Pampa Film was an Argentine film production company that was active in the 1930s and 1940s. It is known for its classic Prisioneros de la tierra (1939).
María Blanca Fiorella Renzi Gil, better known as Fiorella Faltoyano, is a Spanish actress.
A Woman in the Rain is a 1992 Spanish comedy film directed by Gerardo Vera which stars Ángela Molina, Antonio Banderas, and Imanol Arias. It is a remake of the 1945 film Life on a Thread.
