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Fiesta is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 28 november 1941 with Jorge Negrete
Fiesta (1941)
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Add to a movie listFiesta is a 1941 American Technicolor film directed by LeRoy Prinz that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners. The film was the motion picture debut of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera star Anne Ayars.
The film was re-released in 1948 by Favorite Films and retitled Gaiety.
Synopsis
Don Juan Hernández's niece Cholita returns to her village from Mexico City announcing she will not marry José, her village boyfriend, bur rather the radio star Fernando Gómez who has accompanied her home. José enlists two of his friends to pose as bandits to frighten the arrogant and cowardly Fernando and win Cholita back.Actors
Jorge Negrete
(José)
Ann Ayars
(Cholita)
Armida
(Cuca)
George Givot
(Fernando Gómez)
Antonio Moreno
(Don Hernandez, Cholita's Uncle)
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