
Acting
Fanny Navarro
Born 1920-01-01 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.
Acting credits
7.0A group of artists loses a contest, but then they succeed in the theater.
Argentine Symphony
1942
6.0The struggle to succeed and a love story of some Argentines who live in the Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris.
Ambición
1939
10.0A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to change his life. Things get complicated when he needs to return to his past life, this time to save his family from ruin.
El solterón
1940
6.5Two 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
9.0A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.
Marta Ferrari
1956
NROverview of the operation of the Children's City of the Eva Perón Foundation.
Soñemos
1951
A sixty-something millionaire marries a young woman and locks her up in his mansion with two friends, so they won't lack company.
Cantando llegó el amor
1938
8.5El 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
5.5A capricious lady resigns herself to work as the host of a female radio program where she sings jingles and gives advice on cooking and gardening, putting aside her love of police novels, but she will find herself involved in a murder.
Hogar, dulce hogar
1941
8.0To avoid the romantic approaches of a mature man with whom her elder sister is in love, a young girl invents a boyfriend: Captain Perez.
El Capitán Pérez
1946
10.0This 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
6.8Pablo 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
4.5When Alicia is left alone with her little son, she finds herself harassed by society. She travels to Panama, where she starts a chain of extortions from men she has first seduced.
Nude in the Sand
1969
5.8The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Dishonor
1952
8.3When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.
La calesita
1963
10.0A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.
Mujeres que bailan
1949
10.0The misadventures and mishaps of a tailor.
El susto que Pérez se llevó
1940
7.0When a man agrees to join a gang of criminals, his life becomes a complicated labyrinth that he will have to leave in order to be saved.
La suerte llama tres veces
1943
6.0A policeman infiltrates a gang of criminals.
Morir en su ley
1949
The film follows a group of young girls in a boarding school.
Doce mujeres
1939
NRThe action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.
Allá donde el viento brama
1963
7.0A guardian angel accompanies a man who had made a deal with death, which he regrets for a woman.
Dos ángeles y un pecador
1945
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Melodías porteñas
1937