Word: carril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skinned Libertad Lamarque, then the country's top screen and radio actress. Libertad imperiously leaned across the table, gave Eva the last slap she was ever to receive in public, and stalked off with her own admirers. A moment later, according to the story, Tango Singer Hugo del Carril walked by to find Eva alone and in tears. He draped a friendly arm around her shoulder and said: "Don't rm'nd Liber. She has a screw loose. Let's have a cup of coffee...
...only independent film producer in Argen tina. With Evita's support, he was able to buck the powerful Argentine Film Producers' Association, even though its top men were her brother Juan Duarte, the President's private secretary, and Raul Apold, Peron's propaganda chief. Del Carril produced, directed and starred in two big hits, one a semi-documentary that won honorable mention at the Venice film fes tival and was probably the best movie ever made in Argentina...
After Evita's death, Apold and Duarte whetted the knife for Del Carril. First they cut off his film supply. Then, a fort night ago, Apold planted a story in the newspaper Critica that spelled the end of Del Carril's artistic career in Argentina...
Under the headline URUGUAYAN GOLD MEANT MORE TO HUGO DEL CARRIL THAN THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE, the scurrilous piece ironically invoked the memory of his patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying tribute to their departed benefactress. There in Montevideo Hugo del Carril expressed his indifference to the national pain and man ifested the crudest monetary greed by continuing to sing from July 27 to Au gust 8 ..." Hushing the Truck. The story was not true: Del Carril had returned to Buenos...