Fanny Navarro
Acting
Biography
Fanny Navarro was a famous Argentinian actress throughout the golden age of Argentinian cinema. She was an important figure during Peronism as she dated Juan Duarte, Evita's brother. After Perón was overthrown, she was politically persecuted. It is rumored that she eventually became insane. She died in oblivion.
Born: January 1, 1920
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known For
El grito sagrado
El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.
Ayer y hoy
This short film is the most famous Peronist propaganda piece, most likely due to the expressionist visual power of Pappier's imagery. It is based on a poem by José María Fernández Unsaín in which a couple of workers (Fanny Navarro and Pedro Maratea) compares a past of explotation and misery with the new Argentina of Peronist social justice.
Marta Ferrari
A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.
La calesita
When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.
La suerte llama tres veces
When a man agrees to join a gang of criminals, his life becomes a complicated labyrinth that he will have to leave in order to be saved.
The Marihuana Story
Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.
Ambición
The struggle to succeed and a love story of some Argentines who live in the Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris.
Suburbio
Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.
Dishonor
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Morir en su ley
A policeman infiltrates a gang of criminals.
Filmography
as Esther
as Azucena
as Marta Ferrari
as Flora María Peralta
as Voz en off
as Marga Quiroga
as Natalia
as Lucía Vidal
as Martha
as Pierette
as Chica en una fiesta