Word: lara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the outstanding feature of this movie is the integrity of its producer, Claude Autant Lara, in moulding the story for the screen. The plot must have posed many problems in presentation, most of which have been solved quite nicely. M. Lara has managed to be adequately delicate without sacrificing too much impact...
...Lara has his own explanation for the way his love lyrics catch on. "In all my compositions," he says, "there is always a certain woman synthesized." Many of the women who have inspired his lyrics are unknown, but movie actress María Félix, second of his three wives, is the inspiration of some of his most popular...
...Lara met María in 1945, when he attended a studio party for the then unknown young actress who had just gotten rave notices for her first big picture. María Félix invited Lara to a party next night at her apartment. She apologized for not having a piano, and asked him to bring a guitarist along. Instead, Lara sent a baby grand with the note: "To the incomparable María Félix from her admirer, Agustin Lara." They were married soon after. Every Mexican knows how Lara's famous...
Friends say Lara, though he is now married to a 19-year-old chorus girl named Clara Martínez, still worships María. Last week, while he was playing and singing at Mexico City's Capri nightclub, Diego and Frida Rivera entered with María Félix, were ushered to a ringside table. Lara stopped the song he was singing, switched to Palabras de Mujer...
...Capri audience was thrilled. Lara was still playing to a woman synthesized...