Estrellados
About Estrellados
Elvira de Rosas (Raquel Torres) wins a beauty contest in Rioseco, Kansas. The prize is a trip to Hollywood with her mother (María Calvo) and her timid manager, Canuto Cuadratín (Buster Keaton). On the train she meets the star Larry Mitchell (Don Alvarado), who offers to take her into MGM. Canuto is kept out, sneaks onto a set, and is taken for an actor. Larry invites Elvira home. Canuto and her mother walk in on his declaration. Larry then gets Canuto a small part in a musical. Canuto is a hit, and Elvira accepts Larry's proposal.
Cast & crew
More about Estrellados
Edward Sedgwick directed, with Salvador de Alberich directing the Spanish dialogue. Alberich, Paul Dickey, and Richard Schayer wrote it. It is the Spanish-language version of Free and Easy, shot in mid and late March 1930, and billed as a Buster Keaton production. Leonard Smith photographed it. George Boemler edited it. Western Electric sound. MGM released it in July 1930. It opened in Havana on 14 July 1930 and in Barcelona and New York on 17 October 1930.
Themes
Making
Keaton played the manager in both languages. Anita Page's role in Free and Easy is played here by Raquel Torres.
Look
Leonard Smith photographed the black-and-white Spanish version, including the studio-gate and musical-comedy scenes.
Music
Fred E. Ahlert wrote the music for "La reina de mi corazón" and "Estrellados." Salvador de Alberich wrote the Spanish lyrics.
Notes
- Wikipedia lists 96 minutes. AFI lists 95 minutes and 11 reels.
- Some shots of Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Trixie Friganza, and Jackie Coogan were reused from the English version and dubbed. A Dorothy Sebastian and Karl Dane sequence was left out.
- Lionel Barrymore, William Haines, John Miljan, Gwen Lee, Cecil B. DeMille, and Fred Niblo appear as themselves.
- Juan de Homs plays a director. Carlos Villarías plays the master of ceremonies Jack Collier.
- The songs "La reina de mi corazón" and "Estrellados" use music by Fred E. Ahlert and Spanish lyrics by Alberich.
Scenes
- Canuto sneaks onto an MGM stage and is mistaken for an actor.
- Elvira's mother breaks in on Larry's proposal.
- Canuto stops the musical and still loses Elvira to Larry.
Also available
- Internet Archive (estrellados-30-18572)
