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The Well-paid
The Well-paid
Directed by	Alberto Gout
Written by	José María Carrtero Novillo "El Caballero Audaz"; Alberto Gout
Produced by	Adolfo, Enrique & Rodolfo Rosas Priegp
Starring	María Antonieta Pons; Víctor Junco; Blanca Estela Pavón
Cinematography	Alex Phillips
Music by	Rosalío Ramírez
Distributed by	Rosas Priego Productions
Release date	February 20, 1948 (México)
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

The Well-paid (in Spanish La bien pagada) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout. It was filmed in 1948 and starred María Antonieta Pons and Víctor Junco.

Plot edit

The billionaire Fernando Jordan (Victor Junco) marries Carola Rute (María Antonieta Pons). Carola becomes lover of Carlos. Fernando surprises together after reading a comment understood in a local newspaper that previously tried to extort him. After meditating the tremendous disappointment, he accepts that he made the mistake not to make her love during their brief marriage. He forces her to sign a letter waiving her rights as wife and jets off abroad for many years. When he returns, he learns that Carola is now a singer and cabaret artist named Piedad of The Diamonds. She was abandoned by her lover.^[1]

Cast edit

María Antonieta Pons ... Carola Rute / Piedada of The Diamonds
Victor Junco ... Fernando Jordán
Blanca Estela Pavón ... Violeta Rute
Carmen Molina ... Julieta Rute
Jorge Ancira ... Carlos
Esperanza Issa ... María Rosa
Carlos Martínez Baena ... Jorge Rute

Reviews edit

The film was based on the novel by José María Carretero Novillo "El Caballero Audaz" ("The Bold Caballero"), and was adapted and directed by one of the geniuses of the musical melodrama of Mexican Cinema: Alberto Gout. María Antonieta Pons showed a conversion to glamor with designs created by Armando Valdez Arm Peza, leaving tropical environments becoming a citadina woman with worldly tastes and elegant clothes.^[2]