Um Anjo Desceu do Céu

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.

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 .