María Dolores "Lola" Flores Ruiz was a Spanish actress, bailaora and singer. Born in Jerez de la Frontera, Flores became interested in the performing arts at a very young age. Known for her overwhelming personality onstage, she debuted as a dancer at age sixteen at the stage production Luces de España, in her hometown. After being discovered by film director Fernando Mignoni, Flores moved to Madrid to pursue a professional career in music and film, with her first gig being the lead role in Mignoni's Martingala (1940). Flores succeeded as a film and stage actress. In 1943 she obtained her breakthrough role in the musical stage production Zambra alongside Manolo Caracol, in which she sang original compositions by Rafael de León, Manuel López-Quiroga Miquel and Antonio Quintero, including "La Zarzamora" and "La Niña de Fuego", mostly singing flamenco music, copla, rumba and ranchera. She then started to receive widespread media coverage.
Communist Party of Andalusia is the federation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in Andalusia.
Madness for Love is a 1948 Spanish historical drama film directed by Juan de Orduña.
María del Carmen García Galisteo, known professionally as Carmen Sevilla, was a Spanish actress, singer, and dancer. She began her career in the 1940s and became one of the most popular and highest paid stars of Spanish cinema until the 1970s. In 1991, at the age of sixty, she began her career as a television presenter, working for the three major Spanish networks until her retirement in 2010. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Vengeance is a 1958 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem. It was co-produced with Italy, starring Italian Raf Vallone. Francisco Rabal narrates the film. It was shown at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival but not released in Spain until the following year. The film had serious troubles with Spanish censorship. Bardem even went to prison and it was an international scandal. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Modesto Llosas Rosell known professionally as Jorge Mistral was a Spanish film actor. During the 1940s, he became a star in films produced by CIFESA. In the 1950s, he lived and worked in México and appeared in Luis Buñuel's Abismos de pasión in 1954. Later, in the 1960s, he directed three films.
José Nieto is a Spanish composer, orchestrator, songwriter, conductor and drum player. He is best known for writing films scores, such as Mad Love (2001), El bosque animado (1987), The Fencing Master (1992), Carmen (2003), The Turkish Passion (1994) or I Know Who You Are (2000). For television he has composed music for the BBC in series like Crusades(1995) or From the Heart of the World (1990), and other international and Spanish series such as Captain James Cook (1988), Armada (1988), Teresa de Jesús (1984) or Los jinetes del alba.
The Duchess of Benameji is a 1949 Spanish historical drama film directed by Luis Lucia and starring Amparo Rivelles. The film is set in the nineteenth century, with Rivelles playing dual roles as a countess and a gypsy. The film was an expensive costume production by Spain's largest studio CIFESA. It is an adaptation of the 1932 play of the same name by Antonio and Manuel Machado. Before its release, the censor demanded that it be rewritten to more overtly punish bandits.
Manuel Mantero is a Spanish professor and writer. In 1969, Mantero moved to the United States and continued his work as a professor.
Currito of the Cross is a 1949 Spanish drama film directed by Luis Lucia and starring Pepín Martín Vázquez, Jorge Mistral and Manuel Luna. It was the third film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Alejandro Pérez Lugín.
Black Sky is a 1951 Spanish drama film directed by Manuel Mur Oti and starring Susana Canales, Fernando Rey and Luis Prendes. A woman working in a shop falls in love with a bohemian poet.
The Balcony of the Moon is a 1962 Spanish musical comedy film directed by Luis Saslavsky and starring Carmen Sevilla, Lola Flores and Paquita Rico. Its critical and commercial failure illustrated the declining popularity of the Andalusian musical, one of the most popular Spanish genres of the 1950s.
Naked Therapy is a 1975 Spanish comedy film directed by Pedro Lazaga and starring Carmen Sevilla, José María Íñigo and Ramiro Oliveros.
Sister San Sulpicio is a 1952 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis Lucia and starring Carmen Sevilla, Jorge Mistral and Julia Caba Alba. It was the third film adaptation of Armando Palacio Valdés's 1889 novel Sister San Sulpicio.
Andalusia Express is a 1956 Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Francisco Rovira Beleta and starring Jorge Mistral, Marisa de Leza and Mara Berni.
It Happened in Seville is a 1955 Spanish musical film directed by José Gutiérrez Maesso and starring Juanita Reina, Rubén Rojo and Alfredo Mayo. It is a remake of the 1942 film The White Dove in which Reina had also starred. It was remade again in 1966 as Road to Rocío with Carmen Sevilla as the lead.
Road to Rocío is a 1966 Spanish musical film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Carmen Sevilla, Francisco Rabal and Arturo Fernández. It was the third version of the story to be filmed following The White Dove (1942) and It Happened in Seville (1955).
The Big Lie is a 1956 Spanish film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Francisco Rabal, Madeleine Fischer and Jacqueline Pierreux.
Gypsy Curse is a 1953 Spanish comedy film directed by Jerónimo Mihura and starring Luis Sandrini, Elena Espejo and Julia Caba Alba.
Woman to Woman is a 1950 Spanish historical drama film directed by Luis Lucia and starring Amparo Rivelles, Ana Mariscal and Eduardo Fajardo. It was not very successful at the box office. It is set in the nineteenth century, and was part of a group of costume films released by Spain's biggest studio CIFESA during the period.
