Alicia Inés Botto, better known by her pen name, Nené Cascallar (June 11, 1914, Buenos Aires – May 16, 1982, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine writer of radio plays and telenovelas. She wrote the screenplay of Fuego sagrado in 1950, [1] and the book, A Lo Largo Del Camino, in 1951.
Cascallar suffered from polio since the age of five, and used a wheelchair. She studied philosophy and literature before starting her career writing radio plays and then soap operas. A pioneer in the field, her work represented some of the country's biggest hits in the 1960s. She preferred to hand-pick the actors for each role which she wrote. El amor tiene cara de mujer, her greatest success, was remade in Mexico in 1971 and again with the title of Principessa in 1984. [2] Cascallar's greatest successes also included Cuatro hombres para Eva (1966), Cuatro mujeres para Adán, Propiedad horizontal, and El cielo es para todos. Her work catapulted the careers of many Argentine actors, such as Rodolfo Bebán, Federico Luppi, Soledad Silveyra, Ana María Picchio, Norma Aleandro, Evangelina Salazar, Bárbara Mujica, Jorge Barreiro, Arnaldo André, Eduardo Rudy, Thelma Biral, Claudia Lapaco, Rodolfo Ranni, and others.
Norma Aleandro is an international award-winning Argentine actress, screenwriter, theatre director and author. She is considered one of the most celebrated and prolific Argentinean actresses of all time and is recognized as a cultural icon in Argentina.
Bertha Moss, born Juana Bertha Moscovish Holm, was an Argentine-Mexican actress of stage, television and film, famous for appearing in many Mexican telenovelas. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She died February 4, 2008 in Buenos Aires.
Amelia Bence was an Argentine film actress and one of the divas of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–60).
Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). In her 6 decades in Argentine entertainment, at the time of her death, she had filmed over thirty movies, premiered twenty plays, had nine television appearances, completed three radio series and had had countless appearances in print media. She was one of the singers who emerged in the 1920s along with Azucena Maizani, Libertad Lamarque, Ada Falcón, and Rosita Quiroga, who created the female voices of tango. She was primarily remembered for the songs "Se dice de mí" and "La milonga y yo".
Américo Hoss was a prolific Hungarian-Argentine cinematographer.
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.
Joaquín Cordero was a Mexican actor of the cinema, theatre and telenovelas.
Soledad Silveyra, is a prominent TV, theater and cinema Argentine actress.
America Tour 1996 was a concert tour performed by Luis Miguel during the last part of 1996 to promote his last album Nada Es Igual. It only lasted for one month and it only took place at some places in South America, like Buenos Aires, Argentina in the River Plate Stadium, Santiago de Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador and Brazil.
Carola Reyna is an Argentine actress and director from Buenos Aires five times winner of the ACE Award and the Martin Fierro Awards.
Nélida Dodó López Valverde better known as Nelly Beltrán was an Argentine actress. She appeared on the radio from the age of 10 and in 85 theatrical performances, 48 films and 3 dozen television shows between 1953 and 1996. She won a Martín Fierro Award as Best Comic Actress for her television work on La hermana San Sulpicio; participated in the film Pajarito Gómez which won the Best Youth Film award at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival; won a Konex Foundation Award; and was honored by the Argentina Actors Association in 2004 for her career contributions.
El amor tiene cara de mujer is a Mexican soap opera, produced by Valentín Pimstein for Teleprogramas Acapulco, SA in 1971. Starring leading actresses Silvia Derbez, Irma Lozano, Irán Eory, and Lucy Gallardo, it features an original story by Nené Cascallar. It was the second longest Mexican telenovela in history. Since its inception on July 12, 1971, it maintained high ratings through 400 one-hour episodes.
El amor tiene cara de mujer is an Argentine telenovela produced by Jacinto Pérez Heredia for Canal 13 and Canal 9 in 1964.
Thelma Alicia Parapar was an Argentine film, stage and television actress, as well as a noted vedette.
Alberto Amado Ribero, known professionally as Tito Ribero, was an Argentine film score composer, composer, singer, and musician. In addition to having his own orchestra, he provided the film scores to over 200 movies, at his most prolific in the 1950s and 1960s. For Del otro lado del puente he won the Silver Condor Award for Best Original Score from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences in 1953.
Aída Luz was an Argentine actress who primarily worked during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema, performing on both stage and in films. She won multiple awards for her performances including the Martín Fierro Awards, the ACE de Oro, the Premios Estrella de Mar and the Golden Condor from the Argentine Film Critics Association.
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.
Carolina Papaleo is an Argentine actress of theater, film and television. She is the daughter of the actress Irma Roy and the journalist Osvaldo Papaleo. From a very young age she wanted to be an actress like her mother. In 2013 she debuted as a television presenter on a Channel 9 program Secretos de novelas which reviews telenovelas. She is a fan of the genre and watches four episodes a week to be able to review them. Papaleo is recognized and remembered for her role as Ana Oromi in the hit telenovela Una voz en el teléfono, which first brought her fame.
María Elena Coppola González, better known as Mariana Karr, was an Argentine-Mexican actress who worked mostly in films and telenovelas.
María Seoane is an Argentine economist, journalist, and writer who has ventured into film. She has won numerous awards and published eight books on political issues in Argentine history. She was the director of LRA Radio Nacional from 2009 until her resignation on 21 December 2015.