Fanny Navarro

Acting

Fanny Navarro

Born — Died

1920-01-01 — 1971-03-18

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

23 titles

Fanny Navarro was a famous Argentinian actress throughout the golden age of Argentinian cinema. She was an important figure during Peronism as she dated Juan Duarte, Evita's brother. After Perón was overthrown, she was politically persecuted. It is rumored that she eventually became insane. She died in oblivion.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 7 titles

Marta Ferrari poster
9.0

A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.

Marta Ferrari

1956

Soñemos poster
NR

Overview of the operation of the Children's City of the Eva Perón Foundation.

Soñemos

1951

El grito sagrado poster
8.5

El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.

El grito sagrado

1954

Suburbio poster
6.5

Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.

Suburbio

1951

The Marihuana Story poster
6.8

Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.

The Marihuana Story

1950

Ayer y hoy poster
10.0

This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.

Ayer y hoy

1951

Dishonor poster
5.8

The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.

Dishonor

1952

1940s · 9 titles