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Maria Cristina

Mounted Mexican One sheet Mexican film from 1951 starring María Antonieta Pons and Carlos Cores. The movie was directed by Ramón Pereda. The plot follows a young, unemployed woman named María Cristina who moves to Mexico City and finds a job as a cabaret dancer without her grandmother's knowledge. The film was inspired by the song "María Cristina me quiere gobernar" by Cuban musician Ñico Saquito. About the Actors María Antonieta Pons: The star of the film, she was a famous "rumbera," a term for dancers of Afro-Cuban dance styles, and one of the most prominent actresses of the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema". Carlos Cores: An Argentine film actor and director, Cores starred in over 60 films before his retirement in the early 1980s