My Three Merry Widows

My Three Merry Widows
Directed by	Fernando Cortés
Written by	Fernando Cortés Carlos Sampelayo Alfredo Varela
Produced by	Óscar J. Brooks Felipe Mier
Starring	Amalia Aguilar Lilia del Valle Silvia Pinal Adalberto Martínez
Cinematography	José Ortiz Ramos
Edited by	Carlos Savage
Music by	Manuel Esperón
Production company	Mier & Brooks Productions
Release date	16 September 1953 (1953-09-16)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

My Three Merry Widows (Spanish Mis tres viudas alegres) is a 1953 Mexican musical comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Amalia Aguilar, Lilia del Valle and Silvia Pinal.^[1] It is a loose sequel to the 1952 film The Three Happy Friends. It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ramón Rodríguez Granada.

Plot

Don Jose Samaniego (Adalberto Martinez), an old and ridiculous man, marries Silvia (Silvia Pinal), a 20-year-old girl. On their wedding night before the marriage be consummated, Don José died after suffering a seizure. Through the obituaries many people learn about his death and go to the cemetery. Among the visitors is Amalia (Amalia Aguilar), with her marriage certificate and says that in their wedding day, Don José got a call, went and never returned. Also coming Lilia (Lilia del Valle), another widow, saying that her husband was kidnapped on their wedding night. The day when the will of Don José is read, the three women learns that the man also had a child with a cook. He asks who seek this woman and wait five years to take part in the inheritance.

Cast

• Amalia Aguilar as Amalia
• Lilia del Valle as Lilia
• Silvia Pinal as Silvia
• Adalberto Martínez as Don José Sanmaniego / Pepito
• José María Linares-Rivas as Don Celedonio
• Tito Novaro as Estanislao Girao
• Fernando Medina as Conde Popoff
• Gloria de Córdoba as Secretary
• Nacho Contla as Chofer
• Jorge Casanova as Chofer

Reviews

In 1952 the Cuban rumbera Amalia Aguilar, Lilia del Valle and Lilia Prado staged The Three Merry Midwives and The Interested Women, directed by Tito Davison and Rogelio A. González respectively. As the films were successful, the formula is repeated and Silvia Pinal was chosen to replace Lilia Prado to team up with the other two actresses and interpreting together three sleepers, sympathetic, cheerful and, above all, very sexy women. The story runs after an absurd plot with supposedly scientific nonsense led by the Puerto Rican filmmaker Fernando Cortes, less skilled than Davison, but the grace of the three beautiful actresses and some good dancing numbers of Adalberto Martínez and Amalia Aguilar, make the movie bearable.^[2]

In 1953 Cortés filmed a new film with the three actresses: The Loving Women (Las cariñosas).

References

1. Wilt p.182
2. García Riera, Emilio (1996). The Cinema of Silvia Pinal. México: University of Guadalajara. pp. 57–58. ISBN 968-895-714-3.

Bibliography

• Wilt, David E. The Mexican Filmography, 1916 through 2001. McFarland, 2024.

External links

• Mis tres viudas alegres at IMDb
• My Three Merry Widows on FilmAffinity