Queen of the Tabarin Club

1960 film

Ernesto Arancibia
Jesús Franco
José Gallardo
Luis Lucas Ojeda
Maria A. Spaltro

Produced byMarius Lesoeur
Sergio Newman^[1]Starring

Mikaela
Yves Massard
Dora Doll

CinematographyAntonio MacasoliEdited byAlfonso Santacana
Charles Nobel^[1]Music by

José Pagán
Ángel Pagán
Antonio Ramírez Ángel

Production
companies

Hispamer Films
CIFESA
Eurocine ^[1]

Distributed byCIFESA
Eurocine ^[1]

Release date

14 November 1960 (1960-11-14)

Running time

100 minutes^[1]Countries

France
Spain

LanguageSpanish

Queen of the Tabarin Club (Spanish: La reina del Tabarín / Queen of the Tabarin) is a 1960 French-Spanish comedy film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Mikaela, Yves Massard and Dora Doll.^[2] It follows the adventures of a troupe of travelling musicians in the 1910s. It was released in France as Mariquita, La Belle de Tabarin.^[1]

Soledad Miranda had a very small uncredited role in this film, the first time she appeared in a Franco film. She would later go on to star in 6 of Franco's thrillers in 1970, before her death in a tragic automobile accident. This was the first time Franco worked for producer Marius Lesouer as well, who would go on to produce many of Franco's later films, including his 1961 opus The Awful Dr. Orloff.^[3]

Partial cast

Mikaela as Lolita
Yves Massard as Fernando
Dora Doll as Cabaret Singer
Danielle Godet as Monique
Antonio Garisa as Pepe
Juan Antonio Riquelme as Miguel
Julio Riscal as Alfonso
Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro as Madre de Fernando
Alfredo Mayo as Charles
Antonio Jiménez Escribano as Profesor de música

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-907222-31-3.
^ De España p. 98
^ Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. London: Strange Attractor Press. ISBN 978-1-907222-31-3.