The Phantom Lady (film)

The Phantom Lady
Directed by	Luis Saslavsky
Written by	Rafael Alberti María Teresa León
Starring	Delia Garcés Enrique Diosdado
Cinematography	José María Beltrán
Edited by	Oscar Carchano
Music by	Julián Bautista
Production company	Estudios San Miguel
Release date	1945 (1945)
Running time	101 min
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

The Phantom Lady (Spanish: La Dama duende) is a 1945 Argentine film directed by Luis Saslavsky. At the 1946 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards the film won Silver Condor Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Music.^[1] It is based on a seventeenth-century comedy with the same name by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated as The Phantom Lady. However, the film alters the play considerably - the plot is heavily rewritten, and the style of dialogue is completely changed. Calderon's comedy is written in verse, while the screenplay of the film is in prose and contains scenes not found in the play. The final scene includes a fierce storm from which the hero rescues the heroine and declares his love for her, a scene added to the film.

It was selected as the eighth greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 1977.^[2]

Plot

Cast

• Delia Garcés
• Enrique Diosdado
• Paquita Garzón
• Manuel Collado
• Antonia Herrero
• Amalia Sánchez Ariño
• Alejandro Maximino
• Helena Cortesina
• Andrés Mejuto
• Ernesto Vilches
• María José
• Manuel Díaz de la Haza
• Francisco López Silva

References

1. "Películas claves del cine nacional en copias impecables". Los Andes (in Spanish). 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
2. "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La mirada cautiva (3). Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.

External links

• The Phantom Lady at IMDb