Las 4 bodas de Marisol

A precursor to the current RUNAWAY BRIDE problem, Marisol plays a film star and singer called "Marisol" who keeps getting engaged but never follows through. When her latest engagement is announced to the media, jilted lovers come out of the wood work making prior claims.

Marisol can't seem to make up her mind and her performance is extremely pretentious. This was either a sign that the grown-up Marisol had lost her ability to play it natural or her interpretation of a vain movie-star had such convincing affectation as to be unlikeable. One suspects the real person had changed and in any case and the child star had become a stunning beauty still easy on the eyes.

In the best scene (without a song), Marisol, having committed to marrying a British Royal, gets to meet The Queen. Asked what she most wants out of life, she asks to have Gibraltar back!

The screwball elements and bad editing make this a sloppy enterprise not surprisingly still missing on DVD.

Marisol is a movie star who is about to marry the director of her latest film. The wedding ceremony is interrupted by three men : Doctor Pierre Durán (Daniel Martín) , a bulfighter called Rafael (Emilio Gutiérrez Caba) and a young count named Martin (Axel Darna) , all of them claim to be engaged to marry the actress. From now on , Marisol tells in flasbacks his relationships to these four suitors.

This is a fun , funny , attractive and enjoyable movie dealing with the graceful Marisol who has a vivid imagination and a heart of gold , she is about to get married a popular actor when at the religious wedding appears three suitors . This a sensitive and feeling movie full of mirth , humor touches , and charming message . Of course , Marisol steals the show as the splendid singer and dancer little girl . Here she is a 19-year-old adolescent . Marisol is well supported by a fine support cast , and being his first adult role . She is accompanied by a lot of familiar faces , along with a great number of cameos , such as : Emilio Gutierrez Caba , Daniel Martin , José Orjas , Francisco Camoiras , Blaki , José María Caffarel , Ángel Álvarez , Maria Fernanda D'Ocon, Emiliano Redondo , Peret and many others . The scenarios , designed by Enrique Alarcón , in which develops the deeds results to be adequate and well designed . Being shot on various location in El Escorial, Madrid, El Tiemblo, Ávila, Castilla y León, Londres, Manzanares, and Madrid capital . Musical score by Fernando Arbex and Adolfo Waitzman responds appropriately to the ambient , originating a careful atmosphere . Here Marisol sings some wonderful and popular songs , being especially known : ¨Belén-Belén¨composed by Peret performed by Marisol and Peret ; ¨La boda¨ composed by Fernando Arbex and Adolfo Waitzman performed by Marisol and ¨Johnny¨ composed by Fernando Arbex and Adolfo Waitzman . It contains a luminous and brilliant cinematography by Antonio L. Ballesteros . The filmmaker Luis Lucia as well as the famous producer Goyanes succeed in this picture , obtaining a great achievement , managing perfectly to the performers and taking advantage of them , giving the best of their acting . It's worthwhile mingle of music , choreography , comedy , sentimentalism and good feeling . Here Marisol gives a sympathetic acting in this heart-touching movie as a friendly girl . Can be said that she is perfectly adequate to his measure . Marisol was an appealing Spanish actress and singer . Spanish film studios were looking for a new child star to follow the steps of Pablito Calvo, and make popular and populist folkloric movies and they found Marisol . She was discovered by her future producer Manuel J. Goyanes in an exhibition of the "Coros y Danzas de Málaga" in TVE in 1959 . Her debut in cinema was in 1960 and she complemented her activity in cinema with records , recitals and TV-shows . Most of them were produced by Manuel J Goyanes , in fact , she was introduced to the movie business and discovered by this powerful producer in ¨Un Rayo De Luz¨ (1960) by Luis Lucia , who directed her in this first feature , where earned his famous name . He was widely known in Spain when she became a widely successful child star , following ¨Ha LLegado Un Angel¨, ¨Tombola¨, ¨Marisol Rumbo a Rio¨ which were big box-office hits in Spain during Franco's dictatorship , and she became Spain's most famous girl actress , outstanding his highly expressive face and eyes , charming eyes and innocent , angelical face . She was a milestone in Spanish "child prodigies" under Franco along with Joselito , Pili and Mili , Ana Belén and especially Pablito Calvo . And the producers trying to keep them as little kids for as long as possible . Due to false advertising by the studios that made their movies, and which wanted to make them appear younger than they really were , an obsession that haunted them through the whole of their careers . After the national and international hits as ¨La Nueva Cenicienta¨ , ¨La Historia De Bienvenido¨ and ¨Cabriola¨, and following other successful films as ¨4 Bodas Marisol¨, ¨Carola De Dia , Carola De Noche¨ . In some films Marisol was already a teenager, and looked more like a young woman than like a little girl . So, the producers decided to compress her breasts with a bandage under her clothes to make her look younger . In her films she often sings Flamenco Cante , Saetas , Soleadas , Bulerias , Habaneras and other Folkloric songs . After several movies and records , and already a big star as a singer and an actress in Europe, the next move was trying to triumph in America, there she also played , sang and danced to grant local box-office . His success even reached around the world . However, life was not too glamorous for Marisol, as she was treated almost as a sideshow act by his managers , not allowing him to become an ordinary teenager . She was forced to keep his childlike image up to the seventies ; however , thanks to Juán Antonio Bardém changed his acting style , playing thrillers as ¨La Corrupción de Chris Miller¨ and ¨Poder Del Deseo¨ , and subsequently directed by prestigious filmmakers as Carlos Saura in ¨Carmen¨ , ¨Bodas de Sangre¨ and Mario Camus¨ in ¨Dias Del Pasado¨. Her last movies were the notorious TV series ¨Proceso a Mariana Pineda¨ and ¨Caso Cerrado¨ and she was not successful anymore . Marisol married two times , to Carlos Goyanes and Antonio Gades . Fidel Castro was the best man at her wedding to Antonio Gades . She has three daughters from her marriage to Antonio Gades , on of them the known actress Maria Esteve . Disappearing from public life in 1985, when she was still high in her career, she left everything , returned to her homeland, Malaga, and has lived as a housewife since then for her own choice . Has received many invitations to return, but has declined all of them, even simple interviews on TV. Retired In Málaga from acting at early age to become a discreet person and was then discovered much later that she had become a housewife and is now a social and humanitarian activist.

The picture was professionally written/directed by Luis Lucia . Luis was an advocate at law for the powerful Francoist company CIFESA that produced super-productions and often financed these false but breathtaking historical spectacles . His film debut was ¨13-13¨ and subsequently ¨Hombre De Negocios¨, two average ¨comedies . Later on , he directed two dated historical dramas : ¨Princesa De Ursinos¨ and ¨Jeromin¨ . And he made various Folkloric films for Juanita Reina : ¨Lóla La Piconera¨ , ¨Gloria Mairena¨ , Carmen Sevilla : ¨Hermana De San Sulpicio¨ , Lola Flores : ¨Morena Clara¨ , Antonio Molina : ¨Esta Voz Es Una Mina¨ , among others . Lucia discovered children prodigy as Marisol , Rocio Durcal , Ana Belén and Jaime Blanch .