Pepita Jimenez

On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.

Cast

Rosita Díaz Gimeno

Pepita Jimenez

Ricardo Montalban

Luis Vargas

Fortunio Bonanova

Don Pedro Vargas

Consuelo Guerrero de Luna

Antonieta

Carlos Orellana

Padre Belisario

Rafael Alcayde

Conde

José Morcillo

Don Gumersindo

Antonio Bravo

Poeta

Manuel Noriega

Ceferino

Conchita Sáenz

Tía Casilda

Crew

Emilio Fernández

Director

Salvador Bartolozzi

Costume Design

Emilio Fernández

Screenplay

Mauricio Magdaleno

Screenplay

Alex Phillips

Director of Photography

Javier Torres Torija

Production Design

Antonio Díaz Conde

Original Music Composer

Manuel Fontanals

Production Design

Gloria Schoemann

Editor

Óscar Dancigers

Producer