The Holy Crown

The Holy Queen
The Holy Queen
Directed by	Henrique Campos ; Aníbal Contreiras ; Rafael Gil
Written by	Tavares Alves ; Luna de Oliveira ; Antonio Tudela ; Rafael Gil ; Aníbal Contreiras
Produced by	Aníbal Contreiras ; Cesáreo González
Starring	Maruchi Fresno ; Antonio Vilar ; Luis Peña ; Fernando Rey
Cinematography	Manuel Berenguer ; Alfredo Fraile
Edited by	Suevia Films
Music by	Ruy Coelho
Production; company	Suevia Films
Distributed by	Mercurio Films
Release date	15 September 1947
Running time	110 minutes
Countries	Portugal ; Spain
Languages	Portuguese ; Spanish

The Holy Queen (Spanish:Reina santa) is a 1947 Spanish-Portuguese historical drama film starring Maruchi Fresno, Antonio Vilar and Luis Peña.^[1] Separate Spanish and Portuguese versions were filmed with the Spanish directed by Rafael Gil and the Portuguese by Henrique Campos and Aníbal Contreiras. It was part of a popular group of Spanish costume films made in the late 1940s.

The film portrays the life of Isabel of Aragon, a Spanish-born Queen of Portugal who played a role of peacemaker between different factions at the Portuguese court as well as between Portugal and Castile.

Cast

Maruchi Fresno as Isabel of Aragón
Antonio Vilar as Dinis, King of Portugal
Luis Peña as Nuño de Lara
Fernando Rey as Infante Alfonso
José Nieto as Vasco Peres, the alderman
María Martín as Blanca
Juan Espantaleón as Pedro, the priest
Fernando Fernández de Córdoba as Pedro III de Aragón
María Asquerino as Leonor
Barreto Poeira as Álvaro, the squire
Milagros Leal as Doña Betaza
Virgilio Teixeira as Alfonso Sánchez
Julieta Castelo as Doña María Ximénez
Gabriel Algara as Juan Velho
Carmen Sánchez as Doña Constanza
Emilio G. Ruiz as Infante Pedro
Manuel Guitián as Ramiro
Joaquina Almarche as María de Molina
Rafael Luis Calvo as Fernán Ayres
José Prada as Martín Gil
Manrique Gil as Don Juan Manuel
Félix Fernandez as Barredo
Joaquín Pujol
José Franco as Froilas
Luisa España as Isabel as a child
Santiago Rivero
Julio F. Alymán
Francisco Hernández as Villafranca
Elvira Real
Mercedes Castellanos as María
Alfonso de Córdoba as Juan
Fernando Fresno as Físico
Emilio García Ruiz as Infante Pedro
José Jaspe as Estevao

References

^ Bentley p.100

Bibliography

Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.

External links

The Holy Crown at IMDb

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[1] Bentley p.100

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v t e Films directed by Rafael Gil
1940s	The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (1942) Journey to Nowhere (1942) Traces of Light (1943) Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree (1943) Lessons in Good Love (1944) The Nail (1944) Thirsty Land (1945) The Phantom and Dona Juanita (1945) The Prodigal Woman (1946) The Holy Crown (1947) Don Quixote (1947) The Faith (1947) Mare Nostrum (1948) The Sunless Street (1948) Just Any Woman (1949) Adventures of Juan Lucas (1949)
1950s	Saturday Night (1950) Apollo Theatre (1950) The Great Galeoto (1951) Our Lady of Fatima (1951) The Song of Sister Maria (1952) From Madrid to Heaven (1952) I Was a Parish Priest (1953) He Died Fifteen Years Ago (1954) Judas' Kiss (1954) The Other Life of Captain Contreras (1955) The Cock Crow (1955) The Big Lie (1956) Miracle of the White Suit (1956) Let's Make the Impossible! (1958) Luxury Cabin (1959) College Boarding House (1959)
1960s	Litri and His Shadow (1960) Darling (1961) Green Harvest (1961) Rogelia (1962) Queen of the Chantecler (1962) You and Me Are Three (1962) The Blackmailers (1963) Pedrito de Andía's New Life (1965) Currito of the Cross (1965) Samba (1965) Road to Rocío (1966) He's My Man! (1966) Another's Wife (1967) Fruit of Temptation (1968) The Sailor with Golden Fists (1968) A Decent Adultery (1969) Blood in the Bullring (1969)
1970s	The Locket (1970) The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (1970) The Green Envelope (1971) The Doubt (1972) Nothing Less Than a Real Man (1972) The Guerrilla (1973) The King is the Best Mayor (1974) The Good Days Lost (1975) Forget the Drums (1975) Death's Newlyweds (1975) The Legion Like Women (1976) Two Men and Two Women Amongst Them (1977) Father Cami's Wedding (1979)
1980s	Spoiled Children (1980) And in the Third Year, He Rose Again (1980) Old Shirt to New Jacket (1982) The Autonomines (1984) The Cheerful Colsada Girls (1984)