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487:, where he affirmed that the plot, the adaptation and the script were beyond his control and that of all those involved. Revueltas affirmed: " there were many of us collaborators and we all put a little here and a little there. After we had finished the script, Tito Davison put his hand on it again and things changed again. These kinds of disasters happen in cinema; some correct others and in the end no one remembers what they wrote. On the other hand, directors have their own ideas and ask that these appear in the script. Edmundo Báez said that some scriptwriters were like tailors, that we made the suit tailored to this star or the other. I thought we were not so much tailors as cobblers ". 1045: 29: 490:
The explicit nature (for the time) of certain love scenes generated controversy. Revueltas said that apart from the problems with the script, " there was the censorship: it was the stupidest thing in the world. A censorship of idiots, with which it could not be argued." Several civil organizations
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criticized the film, claiming that it violated morality. In response to the scandal, the film's producers placed the statue used in the film in the lobby of the Chapultepec cinema, as an attraction factor for spectators. This caused one of the organizations protesting the film, the
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However, what Revueltas said in his letter, regarding the fact that he and other filmmakers had received "the trust" of the film's producers to fulfill their vision, was contested by Revueltas himself in an interview 30 years later with
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as the centerpiece of their new garden fountain. At the sculptor's, he encounters Raquel, who has modelled for the titular marble nude
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called it a "masterpiece of melodrama in which the heroine displays an eroticism out of the ordinary." However, in his book
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The explicit nature of the film's romantic scenes also affected Félix's relationship with his then-husband, composer
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When Elena dies suddenly and Antonio later marries Raquel, not everything is what it seems.
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Mujeres de luz y sombra en el cine mexicano: la construcción de una imagen (1939–1952)
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Arnaud, Charlotte; Courtemanche, Philippe; Fernandes, Carla; Morsch Kihn, Eva (1999).
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Mujeres de luz y sombra en el cine mexicano: la construcción de una imagen (1939–1952)
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Index


Roberto Gavaldón
Edmundo Baez
Alfredo B. Crevenna
Tito Davison
Ladislas Fodor
José Revueltas
Rodolfo Lowenthal
Jack Wagner
María Félix
Arturo de Córdova
Rosario Granados
Alex Phillips
Charles L. Kimball
Rodolfo Halffter
Panamerican Films
Melodrama film
Roberto Gavaldón
María Félix
Arturo de Córdova
Rosario Granados
Estudios Churubusco
Mexico City
art director
Manuel Fontanals
Arturo de Córdova
María Félix
Rosario Granados
Venus de Milo
chronic condition

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