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Marisol's second movie features a fantastic supporting cast that saves it from all the contrived melodrama about a dysfunctional family saved by an orphan relative. Isabel Garces and Pulgarcito keep the plot moving between musical numbers.

Marisol's second feature movie , her first was ¨Un Rayo de Luz¨, and it got a big hit and huge boxoffice . Sympathetic , attractive and charming musical comedy with child prodigy Marisol accompanied by a great plethora of secondaries . This is a moving story proceeded in simplicity and delicacy and the atmospheric scenarios provide a lot of chances of dancing , singing and musical numbers . Marisol's parents are dead, and she decides to sell everything she has and goes Madrid with her good uncle Ramon's (José Marco Davó) family. She catchs a train in which he befriends a bunch of students (Jaime Blanch , José Maria Tasso, among others) and meets a little friend ( the Mexican Cesáreo Quezadas 'Pulgarcito' , an actor similar to Pablito Calvo and Joselito) . And a sensitive friendship arises between the little child and the likeable Marisol . Her aunt Leonor (Ana María Custodio) is a very egoistic woman who doesn't like her or treat her as one of the family, forcing her to eat her meals in the kitchen with the maid, Herminia (Isabel Garcés , usual partner to Marisol) . The stingy aunt only lets Marisol stay because she brought a lot of cash with her and the family is not working well at the moment. The family includes two adult cousins (Carlos Larrañaga) and a younger girl cousin, and Marisol secretly brought into a suitcase the little boy (Pulgarcito) she met on the train into Madrid . Along the way , Marisol singing as well as dancing Andalucian songs , Bulerias , Jotas and performing at TV shows with a band of University students .

This is a fun , funny , charming and agreeable movie dealing with a numerous and dysfunctional family in problems that is saved by an orphan relative : Marisol . This a sensitive and feeling movie full of mirth , humor touches, and enjoyable message . Of course , Marisol steals the show as the splendid singer and dancer little girl . Marisol is well supported by a fine support cast , full of familiar faces , along with a great number of cameos , such as : Carlos Larrañaga , José Marco Davó , Ana María Custodio , Jaime Blanch , Jesús Puente , Francisco Camoiras José Orjas , Jacinto San Emeterio , Jose Maria Tasso , Beni Deus , and many others . The scenarios , designed by Enrique Alarcón , in which develops the deeds results to be adequate and well designed . Musical score by Augusto Algueró responds appropriately to the ambient , originating a careful atmosphere . Here Marisol sings some wonderful and popular songs , such as : En el tren , Ola Ola Ola , Pero mira, mírame , Andalucia and ¨Estando Contigo¨, being composed by Ernesto Guijarro , Ernesto Lecuona and Augusto Algueró . 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 an enjoyable acting in this heart-touching movie as an orphan , as she goes Madrid and has to save a family . 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 . ¨Búsqueme Esa Chica¨ 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 her films she often sings Flamenco Cante , Saetas , Soleadas 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 Malaga 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.

Being well produced by three great producers : Cesáreo González , Manuel J. Goyanes , Benito Perojo and professionally 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 .

Since the first time I saw "ha llegado un ángel" I knew that it would be a very important part of my childhood and, probably, of my life. It's heart-touching, charming, funny and it contains all the things that an excellent film needs. It's a film that can be watched by people of all ages and it will rest in the hearts and souls of all those people who, like me, enjoyed it.