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Traces of the Past
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Wikipedia article
'Traces of the Past' is a 1950 Mexican drama film, directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and starring Libertad Lamarque, alongside Emilia Gui, Jos Mara Linares-Rivas and Xavier Loy. The film's art direction was by Edward Fitzgerald. The film is considered one of Lamarque's "mother melodramas" that she made in Mexico.
Plot
Isabel (Libertad Lamarque) is a woman who left behind her career as a singer to marry lawyer Federico Montero (Jos Mara Linares-Rivas). Isabel's past as a singer torments Federico, who finds it immoral, and after an incident following Isabel's chance encounter with a former boyfriend, he leaves her, taking their son Ral away from her. Years pass, and Isabel, who in the meantime reassumed her career as a singer as "Issa Valetti", upon learning of Federico's death, goes searching for Ral. She eventually finds the now grown up Ral (Xavier Loy), who now has become a hard-drinking man who hates his mother despite having no memory of her, and is in a relationship with Amanda (Emilia Gui), a gold-digger. With Ral unaware about the relationship he has with Isabel (only knowing her as famous singer Issa Valetti), Isabel tries to change his mind about his mother, but to her dismay, she finds out that Ral has fallen in love with her "Issa Valetti" persona.
Cast
* Libertad Lamarque as Isabel / Issa Valetti
* Emilia Gui as Amanda
* Jos Mara Linares-Rivas as Federico Montero
* Xavier Loy as Adult Ral
* Francisco Jambrina as Marcos
* Jos Pidal as Vzquez, impresario
* Alejandro Ciangherotti as Antonio Quintero
* Mara Gentil Arcos as Lupe, nanny
* Amparo Arozamena as Pepita
* Meneses y Francioli
* Victorio Blanco as Theater man (uncredited)
* Gloria Cansino as Theater employee (uncredited)
* Elisa Christy as Gloria (uncredited)
* lvaro Matute as Theater employee (uncredited)
* Roberto Meyer as Police Commissioner (uncredited)
* Nicols Rodrguez Jr. as Child Ral (uncredited)
* Rafael Torres as Carlo (uncredited)
* Acela Vidaurri as Theater employee (uncredited)
References
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