I have a very small collection of old Mexican movie posters, my favorite being the one above. It's from a movie called El Vestido de Novia (The Bridal Gown) with the provocative question below: ?Pierde la pecadora el derecho de llevarlo...? (Does the sinner lose the right to wear it?). This film stars someone named Ana Luisa Peluffo. I just Googled her and apparently she exists, was born in 1931 and made El Vestido de Novia in 1959. She is known for being the first actress to be seen nude on the Mexican screen. There are nude pictures of her on the web(not sure if she was the first on the web too) but since this is a family site I will leave it to you to Google them. She made 201 movies, according to them she made her name by appearing nude in the 50's, got bigger more serious opportunities in drama as a result, and then "returned to her roots" in the 70's. Meanwhile here she is in the flesh (well not all of it).
I didn't realise there were books about Mexican movie posters too and so I just got one called Mas Cine Mexicano which had some very wonderful old posters but none of the same ones I have. The Mas indicates that there was a prior book which I must have missed. Maybe Ana Luisa Peluffo will be immortalized in there returning to "her roots".
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