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La Zandunga is a film of genre Drama directed by Miguel M. Delgado with Lupe Vélez
La Zandunga (1938)
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Add to a movie listLa Zandunga is a 1938 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Fernando de Fuentes and starring the "Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Vélez.
Synopsis
In a little town around Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca, México, live a beautiful and cheerful girl named Lupe (Lupe Vélez), in love with a stranger marine named Juancho (Arturo de Córdova). The man should go to Veracruz and promises Lupe return to marry. After several months, Lupe lost hope of seeing him again and accepts the offer of other man to marry.Actors
Lupe Vélez
(Lupe)
Arturo de Córdova
(Juancho)
Joaquín Pardavé
(Don Catarino)
Carlos López
(El secretario, Don Chencho)
David Silva
((uncredited))
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