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Release year: 1957

Storyline

This is a musical drama featuring a tragic love story that relates a torch singer's rise to fame, and then her downfall because of her lover's death. She manages to return to the stage, but after only one public performance, she passes away.

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Did you know

• Child actress Toni Fernandez who shares a brief scene with Sara Montiel at the beginning of the film is actually Sara's niece in real life.

• It was originally planned that Sara Montiel would lip-sync the songs previously recorded by another singer. However at the recording studio, the hired singer demanded to be paid in advance for her services and producer-director Juan de Orduña could not come up with the cash. Sara was summoned to the studio and recorded all the songs in one afternoon. Sara's voice and singing style ended up being the main attraction of the film.

• One of the characters in this film is called the Grand Duke Vladymir of Russia (played by Alfredo Mayo as required by the script: a drunken aristocrat who is after Maria Lujan (Sara Montiel). It so happened that there was in real life a Russian Grand Duke by that name and he sued the film for portraying him in such an unflattering manner. The problem was resolved when Cifesa (the film's distributor) agreed to pay the indignant Duke an undisclosed large sum of money and removed from the soundtrack any reference to Vladymir of Russia. Since then all you hear in the movie is references to "Grand Duke" but no name.

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