Speaking of his recent death (25/04/2011) is appropriate to recall an actress who went by the English film without attracting too much attention, but filling the movie speaking, despite With its quick tasks, great humanity.
Humanity
comparable only to that of his father, (this time) recognized and celebrated actor of Welcome Mr. Marshall, pram or Executioner.
Digna daughter of his father, not only was his strong resemblance physical, but also for his talent. Talent that, unfortunately, unable to deploy, at least in the cinema in all its magnitude.
Born in Madrid in 1917, Mary grew up backstage and Isbert twelve years and played his first role in the tables.
In the theater was always recognized that in film, perhaps because during those years, women who wanted to succeed on the screen had to be almost always great bellezón. Clearly, Mary was very normal.
The first film appeared in 1945 in film Life begins at midnight , but that same year for two more pieces of paper: in The path of Babel and She and her millions.
is the beginning of a busy filmography that would not break, because every year was involved in one or more productions.
was how he became to the viewer a very recognizable face to the point that went unnoticed and taken as natural as it appeared there by a piece of paper, leaving the audience with a laugh or a smile and disappeared from the scene.
his physique and his voice broken tremendously conditioned. Just like his father, who with less success. Their roles could not be but maids, spinsters, suburban and things like that where I had to put his wit and impudence.
Of course, its scope was the comedy. Being sincere and avoiding inherent in conventional apology any semblance of who has recently died, Mary moved Isbert in cinema-quality movies more than doubtful.
However, those films years was so superficial and fled from all transcendence. The country was not great films (although there were) and what prevailed was the atrascanada. The people needed fun.
In this film, great actors moved demostralo could only years later (José Luis López Vázquez, José Sacristán, Conchita Velasco ...) it was not for Mary Isbert. I refer, of course, did not get to players where they can demonstrate their tragicomic vein.
His shelter was (could it be otherwise if we wanted to show his talent) theater. In any case, the cinema, he could always say that he worked under the command of Luis Buñuel ( Viridiana ) and Marco Ferreri ( Stroller ), along with his father.
Perhaps we should mention also engage in the great film de Vicente Aranda period of silence. I will dispense with listing the films that participated, as were dozens and dozens.
Say, before closing this friendly reminder that Mary was Isbert always above the hosted movies, no matter how small its insignificant role and that was that movie.
With the death of Mary does not end the saga of the Isbert, because his son had a film career, in principle very promising, which was losing steam as he went, leaving behind his lover of physical seventies.
Like her mother, Tony Isbert found refuge and recognition in the theater, which also seems to have been felled since his name has long since stopped ringing.
Mary Isbert worked
in films until 2005 in which he intervened in three films that released only one: Semen, a love story , directed by Daniela Fejerman and Ines Paris.
One of the films of my life (and I know of many) is undoubtedly Duck Soup (Leo McCarey / Marx Brothers 1933). Of all the Marx who filmed most of them great, Duck Soup may be the best. It was the last that rolled under the Paramount brand and the last in which the brothers worked together.
The film was a box office failure which caused the rupture of the producer group. Luckily the hosted the Metro, although further studies are required to include in all his later movies crazy romantic partners outside the world of Marx, thus ensuring a more mainstream audience but more numerous.
As comedians, they had never been taken very seriously by the critics but were comparable in their unclassifiable universe's greatest architects of surrealism. This may seem exaggerated but they stopped short of saying the prestigious British critic of the time, Patrick McKay that his art could be compared to that of Dalí, and as political essays and arms, Duck Soup surpassed the work of Ionesco and Beckett. Perhaps it happened.
Explain the argument Duck Soup is quite useless because the film is a succession of sequences, dialogues, pieces that bring together a comprehensive history logic. Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) is housed in a small dictator country, Freedonia, wrapped in the multimillion-dollar fortune Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont, actress essential in almost all movies of the Marx).
There is a neighboring country, Sylvania, which wants to annex Freedonia and its ambassador hires Chico and Harpo as spies infiltrated. It is the excuse for a waterfall full of hilarious sequences ingenious wordplay, double meaning and full of deliriously absurd scenes. One of these sequences, including three hats (one of Chico, Harpo and another third of a city that sells trinkets with a cart), which forms a bundle of updates and exchanges Morrocotudo owners and heads, has passed every anthology of nonsense and absurdity.
so many sequences in other anthologies, Harpo, Groucho disguises himself and slips into the house of Mrs. Teasdale with intent to steal the jewels. Attempting to open the safe break a mirror in real time the incoming natural Groucho pissed off by the crash. Harpo is placed behind the broken mirror and Groucho led to believe that he is his own reflection imitating his every move
Groucho, pissed off, try to catch him in a fault and thus confirm their suspicions that Something fishy in this strange reflex, but Harpo perfectly mimics his every move. To make matters worse, Chico enters the room dressed with Groucho also formed a series of misunderstandings and absurdities absolutely absurd, and surreal buffs, by no less than three Groucho.
dialogs Duck Soup, brilliant in its sarcasm and intention, came to disturb the censorship of the time as the attitude of its main character, Rufus, utterly irreverent language which included games words, insults and abuse, led in all directions, especially the character of Mrs. Teasdale. There is an indescribable sequence in which the lady offers of marriage with phrases like "All I can offer is a roof" or "Are you a widow?. Would you let a lot of money her late husband?. Answer first to my second question. "
may Duck Soup has aged in accordance with what, but it is quite modern sequences. At times hilariously bizarre, as when Harpo shows a house with a dog tattooed on his stomach ... and the dog leaves the house and barks at the camera. From the Marx Brothers reinvented the structure of the comedy film, gender was never like before.
We have often wondered why this movie is called Duck Soup . Groucho explained: "If we make a delicious recipe, we take two turkeys, a duck, four cabbages, no goose and mix everything. After trying just want to make goose soup the rest of your life ". Absolutely Groucho.