Enrique Santos Discépolo
Birth : 1901-03-26, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Death : 1951-12-23
History
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Enrique Santos Discépolo was an Argentine tango composer and lyricist, author of famous tangos such as "Cambalache" and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel. He was also a film actor, director and screenwriter.
Story
A businessman falls in love with a beautiful young woman, showers her with attention and turns her into a star without confessing his love to her.
Music
A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.
Writer
A mature mechanical worker, a football fanatic, finds the meaning of his life in encouraging, following and collaborating with the club of his loves.
A mature mechanical worker, a football fanatic, finds the meaning of his life in encouraging, following and collaborating with the club of his loves.
Songs
Story about a humble musician who triumphs overcoming his failures and a young woman arrives in Buenos Aires from the interior of the country in search of triumph but finds death.
Writer
Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
Carterista
Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.
Writer
After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.
Director
After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.
Original Story
A counterfeiting gang implicate a bank employee in their crimes, but their cover-story about a ghost in the house where they do their printing backfires on them.
Director
A counterfeiting gang implicate a bank employee in their crimes, but their cover-story about a ghost in the house where they do their printing backfires on them.
Music
A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.
Writer
A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.
Director
A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.
Original Music Composer
A millionaire appoints an administrator to control his daughter's overspending.
Writer
A millionaire appoints an administrator to control his daughter's overspending.
Director
A millionaire appoints an administrator to control his daughter's overspending.
Writer
Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer.
Director
Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer.
A man who is a director of a reformatory is slowly gaining everyone's trust.
Writer
The perverse owner of a cabaret gets redemption by sacrificing himself for the happiness of others.
Director
The perverse owner of a cabaret gets redemption by sacrificing himself for the happiness of others.
Barbei
The perverse owner of a cabaret gets redemption by sacrificing himself for the happiness of others.
Original Music Composer
Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.
Music
Some professional actors are unemployed due to the opinion of a theater critic, then they decide to take revenge and disguise themselves as poor tenants from a neighborhood who are hired by the same critic to perform his work.
Music
Writer
Original Music Composer
Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a dancer and singer with whom he was entangled, chases him, he uses Perez to get rid of her.
Music
Cars and progress made an old carriage-driver jobless and so desperate that he becomes a gangster. When his own son starts a life of crime, he repents and gives himself to the authorities. When he lives prison, he will be happy to rejoin his family, as his son repented, too.
Cars and progress made an old carriage-driver jobless and so desperate that he becomes a gangster. When his own son starts a life of crime, he repents and gives himself to the authorities. When he lives prison, he will be happy to rejoin his family, as his son repented, too.
A film that brings together ten of the fifteen shorts that Carlos Gardel filmed in 1930 under the direction of Eduardo Morera, in the film studios of the pioneer Federico Valle.
Writer
Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Yira, yira", tango composed and written by Enrique Santos Discépolo.
Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Yira, yira", tango composed and written by Enrique Santos Discépolo.
