The house is serious (1933)
- Original title
- La casa es seria
- Directed by
- Lucien Jaquelux
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- Argentina, France
- Runtime
- 25 min
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A short musical film following a charming picaresque story. Carlos Gardel sings two songs with a female co-star, and the whole thing feels like a fun, fast-paced diversion.
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What happens
The House Is Serious (La Casa es Seria) is a picaresque musical short film directed by Lucien Jaquelux (credited as Jaquelux). It belongs to a series of French films starring Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel and was made by Paramount Pictures in its French Joinville Studios at Joinville-him-Pont. The film features Gardel and co-stars the Argentinian-Spanish actress Imperio Argentina. The script was written by the Brazilian Alfredo Le Pera. Gardel sings two songs with Le Pera; Memory malevo and Want to me, the latter having been recorded on a disc. It premiered on May 19, 1933, in the Suipacha Theater in Buenos Aires. All copies of the film have been lost. Only its audio has survived, which was recorded on Vitaphone disks. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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