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. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Léon Barsacq.

The Beauty of Cadiz
Directed byRaymond Bernard
Eusebio Fernández Ardavín
Written byFrancis Lopez (operetta)
Maurice Vandair (operetta)
Raymond Vincy (libretto)
Marc Cab (libretto)
Jesús María de Arozamena
Raymond Bernard
Jean-Pierre Feydeau
Pierre Laroche
Produced byÉdouard Harispuru
StarringLuis Mariano
Carmen Sevilla
Jean Tissier
CinematographyPhilippe Agostini
Edited byRaymond Leboursier
Margarita de Ochoa
Bienvenida Sanz
Music byFrancis Lopez
Production
companies
CCFC
CEA
Distributed byCCFC
CEA
Release date
  • 29 November 1953 (1953-11-29)
Running time
105 minutes
CountriesFrance
Spain
LanguagesFrench
Spanish
Box office$32.5 million[1]

Plot

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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.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "La Belle de Cadix (1953) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ^ Alberto Mira, The A to Z of Spanish Cinema, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, page 280.
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