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Lola Flores, a dark-haired, deep-bosomed Spanish flamenco dancer with a throaty voice and glittering black eyes, is the current rage of Mexico City. Getting a table for her 2 a.m. show at the fashionable, mirror-ceilinged Club Capri requires luck and pull plus about 150 pesos ($16.40) per person cover charge, a record price for a Mexico City night spot. At the Iris Theater, where Lola dances before her nightclub show, tickets are priced at 15 pesos, but scalpers get as much as 50.
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Lola Flores was one of Spain's most beloved pop singers and was able to translate her fame into a limited but successful film career. In cinema, she specialized in playing fiery, dark-eyed gypsies. Examples of her work include La Faraona (1951) and Maria de la O (1958). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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In the following decade, besides Lola Flores, El Príncipe Gitano & Antonio Molina, brought to the screen were Rocío Jurado, Peret, the dancers and choreographers Rafael de Córdova & Antonio Gades, among others. The number of films that were folklyric-flamenco decreased in comparison to the previous decade. Producers took into account that the audience was not what it once was. In 1963 Francisco Rovira Beleta produced Los Tarantos which was based on Alfredo Mañas's theatre work Historia de Los Tarantos. It related a beautiful yet tragic story of the love of two gypsies belonging to rival families. A grand creation, not only having dance but drama as well. Carmen Amaya made this film a year before she passed away.
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Legendary flamenco artiste Lola Flores is brought credibly to life by newcomer Gala Evora in "Lola, the Movie," but her charm and power fail to extend to other areas of the project. A standard biopic outlining Flores' passage from '30s Andalusian waif to '50s international star, "Lola" looks and sounds fine but remains happily hagiographic. Pic could kick up its heels in offshore territories with a taste for popular flamenco and its paraphernalia.
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Lola Flores wurde im Romaviertel San Miguel in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) geboren. Schon als Mädchen tanzte und sang sie in der Taverne ihres Vaters Pedro Flores (El Comino). Bereits im Alter von 12 Jahren war sie in den heimischen Künstlerkreisen als Tänzerin bekannt. Später sang sie Lieder ihrer großen Vorbilder Concha Piquer und Estrellita Castro.
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