1944. Argentina didn't suffer the second world war. It was, maybe, its best time economically.
This type of comedy is the example we have nowadays to measure the extent of those riches: Fantastic interiors in private residences, huge and lavish; magnificent cars, extra large and some of them convertibles; private ownership of superb horses; servants galore...; women dresses splendid and lots of them, silly (very silly) situations within homes with people that were having an exceptional life quality due to a florid economy that, I'm afraid, Argentina never saw again even until today, 2016.
In short: All that: Gone with the Wind.
But let's stay in 1944 because that's the year this light (extremely light) comedy was filmed.
Mirtha Legrand is our protagonist (it seems she made several comedies of this kind at the time, being very young and with an excellent understanding for the tempo required for these improbable situations). She was incredibly decorative with her ice blonde-blue eyes, delicate figure and fantastic upper class presence. A high class BIMBO from the word go.
This movie comprises the whole gamut of No-No's a prim and proper society woman was supposed to respect to be herself a respected member of her social class. Those rules border on the insane and clash completely with the way we live an think nowadays and NO WOMAN will be caught dead following those rules. Men probably would love to go back to those days...
Taking all these historical moral and social obstacles in perspective, one can, still now, enjoy this fast and frantic comedy of errors, with excellent actors and direction and with Mirtha Legrand as eye candy from beginning to end (she was seventeen at the time).
Talking about changing times, it caught my attention the cordovan strong and obvious accent of Tito Gómez, and actor that used that gimmick throughout his comic acting career because, having myself lived by now several years in Córdoba, I think natives don't speak any more with such strong accent (Television? Internet?). Even regional accents have gone with the wind!!
This type of comedy is the example we have nowadays to measure the extent of those riches: Fantastic interiors in private residences, huge and lavish; magnificent cars, extra large and some of them convertibles; private ownership of superb horses; servants galore...; women dresses splendid and lots of them, silly (very silly) situations within homes with people that were having an exceptional life quality due to a florid economy that, I'm afraid, Argentina never saw again even until today, 2016.
In short: All that: Gone with the Wind.
But let's stay in 1944 because that's the year this light (extremely light) comedy was filmed.
Mirtha Legrand is our protagonist (it seems she made several comedies of this kind at the time, being very young and with an excellent understanding for the tempo required for these improbable situations). She was incredibly decorative with her ice blonde-blue eyes, delicate figure and fantastic upper class presence. A high class BIMBO from the word go.
This movie comprises the whole gamut of No-No's a prim and proper society woman was supposed to respect to be herself a respected member of her social class. Those rules border on the insane and clash completely with the way we live an think nowadays and NO WOMAN will be caught dead following those rules. Men probably would love to go back to those days...
Taking all these historical moral and social obstacles in perspective, one can, still now, enjoy this fast and frantic comedy of errors, with excellent actors and direction and with Mirtha Legrand as eye candy from beginning to end (she was seventeen at the time).
Talking about changing times, it caught my attention the cordovan strong and obvious accent of Tito Gómez, and actor that used that gimmick throughout his comic acting career because, having myself lived by now several years in Córdoba, I think natives don't speak any more with such strong accent (Television? Internet?). Even regional accents have gone with the wind!!
