The Girl's Aunt (Spanish: La tía de las muchachas) is a 1938 Mexican comedy film directed by Juan Bustillo Oro and starring Enrique Herrera, Joaquín Pardavé and Gloria Marín.Avila p.80Richard p.556 It was shot at the Clasa Studios in Mexico City. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlos Toussaint. It has a cross-dressing theme similar to Charley's Aunt.
Synopsis Upon learning that the woman he loves is being forced by her aunt into an arranged marriage with another man, her boyfriend devises a desperate plan. He decides to disguise himself as that very aunt, stepping into the role to disrupt the wedding arrangements and eliminate the rival suitor from the picture.
Cast Enrique Herrera as Licenciado Florentino Carrascosa Juan José Martínez Casado as Doctor Fernando Rubio Joaquín Pardavé as Goyo Becerra Antonio R. Frausto as Chema Gloria Marín as Lupita Lili Marín as Lolita Pilar Fernández as María Luisa Calderón Humberto Rodríguez as Calixto, conserje Joaquín Coss as Gaspar Victoria Argota as Florentina Tony Díaz as Cobrador Manuel Dondé as Lechero
References
Bibliography Amador, María Luisa. Cartelera cinematográfica, 1930-1939. Filmoteca, UNAM, 1980. Avila, Jacqueline. Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro. Oxford University Press, 2019. Richard, Alfred. Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic image: an interpretive filmography, 1936-1955. Greenwood Press, 1993.
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