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1938 film

The Girl's Aunt

Directed by	Juan Bustillo Oro
Written by	Juan Bustillo Oro Humberto Gómez Landero
Produced by	Jesús Grovas
Starring	Enrique Herrera Joaquín Pardavé Gloria Marín
Cinematography	Agustín Jiménez
Edited by	Juan Bustillo Oro Mario González
Music by	Manuel Castro Padilla
Production companies	Producciónes Grovas Oro Films
Distributed by	Cinexport Distributing
Release date	16 September 1938 (1938-09-16)
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

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. 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

After hearing that her aunt plans to marry off the woman he loves to another man, her boyfriend decides to disguise himself as the aunt to throw push him out of the scene.

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

Avila p.80
Richard p.556

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.

External links

The Girl's Aunt at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Juan Bustillo Oro
Two Monks (1934) The Mystery of the Ghastly Face (1935) La honradez es un estorbo (1937) Poppy of the Road (1937) The Girl's Aunt (1938) Huapango (1938) Every Madman to His Specialty (1939) In the Times of Don Porfirio (1939) Horse for Horse (1939) You're Missing the Point (1940) To the Sound of the Marimba (1941) Cuando los hijos se van (1941) The Black Angel (1942) My Memories of Mexico (1944) It's Not Enough to Be a Charro (1946) Two of the Angry Life (1948) Only Veracruz Is Beautiful (1949) The Man Without a Face (1950) Get Your Sandwiches Here (1951) Tenement House (1951) The Trace of Some Lips (1952) Penjamo (1953) Seven Women (1953) Father Against Son (1955) The Murderer X (1955) Arm in Arm Down the Street (1956) The Medallion Crime (1956) Las aventuras de Pito Pérez (1957) Every Child a Cross to Bear (1957) So Loved Our Fathers (1964)

Films directed by Juan Bustillo Oro

Two Monks (1934)
The Mystery of the Ghastly Face (1935)
La honradez es un estorbo (1937)
Poppy of the Road (1937)
The Girl's Aunt (1938)
Huapango (1938)
Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)
In the Times of Don Porfirio (1939)
Horse for Horse (1939)
You're Missing the Point (1940)
To the Sound of the Marimba (1941)
Cuando los hijos se van (1941)
The Black Angel (1942)
My Memories of Mexico (1944)
It's Not Enough to Be a Charro (1946)
Two of the Angry Life (1948)
Only Veracruz Is Beautiful (1949)
The Man Without a Face (1950)
Get Your Sandwiches Here (1951)
Tenement House (1951)
The Trace of Some Lips (1952)
Penjamo (1953)
Seven Women (1953)
Father Against Son (1955)
The Murderer X (1955)
Arm in Arm Down the Street (1956)
The Medallion Crime (1956)
Las aventuras de Pito Pérez (1957)
Every Child a Cross to Bear (1957)
So Loved Our Fathers (1964)

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