Vampiresas 1930

Vampiresas 1930 (1962)

As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.

Date of release
1962-05-07
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jesús Franco

Casting

Interesting facts

Vampiresas 1930 (volando hacia la fama) (transl. Female Vamps 1930 – Flying to Fame) is a 1961 Spanish musical comedy film directed by Jesús Franco. The film is about two musicians, Tony who gets the attention of a silent film star and Daniel who falls for a dancer. The four work together until they find themselves out of work and begin performing as a jazz band. The four suddenly get caught up in a murder racket, that was actually committed by a two gangsters who run the casino that the four play at.

Production

When production on La reina del Tabarín stalled, Sergio Newman set out to produce another musical film. The script for this new film was based on an original script by María del Carmen Martínez Román, Newman's business partner at the time, and producer Pío Ballesteros. The authors sold the rights to the script to Hispamer on March 7, 1960.

The initial cast of the film was to be set of Tony Leblanc, Antonio Ozores, Mikaela, María Martín, Félix Fernández, Juan Calvo and José Luis López Vázquez with Pedro Lazaga set to direct. Like La reina del Tabarín, the project also became delayed. This led to the film being offered to Franco as one of the three titles he was on contract with Hispamer for three films. The film initially had an estimated budget of 6,931,000 pesetas.

According to the producer's official documents, filming began on November 11, 1960, while Primer Plano's column titled "Hoja de rodaje" (transl. filming sheet) said that filming began on November 21. As with La reina del Tabarín, Eurociné granted distribution in France and other French-speaking countries, and provided an advance of 60,000 francs in exchange for seven years of distribution rights.

For the songs in the film, the producers purchased the rights to five songs by French Charles Trenet which were then adapted into Spanish.

Hispamer did not like the original working title, and on April 3, 1961, had it change dto Vampiresas 1930, a title which references three films by Warner Bros.: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), and Gold Diggers of 1937 which were each released in Spain as Vampiresas 1933, Vampiresas 1936, Vampiresas 1937 respectively.

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