The Beauty of Cadiz (French: La belle de Cadix, Spanish: La bella de Cádiz) is a 1953 French-Spanish musical comedy film directed by Raymond Bernard and Eusebio Fernández Ardavín and starring Luis Mariano, Carmen Sevilla and Jean Tissier.[2] It is an operetta film, based on the 1945 operetta of the same title.
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Directed by | Raymond Bernard Eusebio Fernández Ardavín |
Written by | Francis Lopez (operetta) Maurice Vandair (operetta) Raymond Vincy (libretto) Marc Cab (libretto) Jesús María de Arozamena Raymond Bernard Jean-Pierre Feydeau Pierre Laroche |
Produced by | Édouard Harispuru |
Starring | Luis Mariano Carmen Sevilla Jean Tissier |
Cinematography | Philippe Agostini |
Edited by | Raymond Leboursier Margarita de Ochoa Bienvenida Sanz |
Music by | J.H. Rys |
Production companies | CCFC CEA |
Distributed by | CCFC CEA |
Release date | 29 November 1953 |
Running time | 105 minutes |
Countries | France Spain |
Languages | French Spanish |
Box office | $32.5 million[1] |
It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Léon Barsacq.
A French cinema company is shooting a picture requiring real gypsies, so they hire a whole bunch and choose beautiful María Luisa to team with famed singer Carlos Molina. The plot includes a marriage and María Luisa believes it has been a real one.
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