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Cradle Song (1953 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Cradle Song' is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Plot
The daughter of a prostitute is abandoned in a convent where a nun cares for her, as she asks to not be taken to an hospice.
Cast
* Mara Elena Marqus
* Carmelita Gonzlez
* Alma Delia Fuentes
* Anita Blanch
* Csar del Campo
* Sara Guasch
* Fernando Corts
* Queta Lavat
* Matilde Palou
* Vernica Loyo
* Beatriz Ramos
* Josefina Leiner
* Marcela Quevedo
Reception
In 'Historia mnima. La cultura mexicana en el siglo XX', Carlos Monsivis cites the film when describing what he considers a decline in the career of director Fernando de Fuentes: "The decline is incomprehensible: how is the director of 'Godfather Mendoza' capable of committing monstrosities like 'Cradle Song' (1953) and 'The Children of Maria Morales' (1952)? Is it the exhaustion of a director or the crushing effect of an industry that allows neither rest nor the aesthetic ambitions of its creators?" In 'Historia del cine mexicano', Emilio Garca Riera quotes the film together with 'Sor Alegra' (1952) as films that "were about compliant, happy, and heavily made-up nuns."
References
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