Delia Garcés

Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him.

The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she's a duende, a ghost. Voted the best Argentine film of 1945, La dama duende is a beautifully crafted comedy of errors, based on the 17th-century play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

A single mother who refuses work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, and who also intends to marry a millionaire, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American songwriter, who get shelter in the pension where they live.

The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.