Feature film
Radio Candelario
Rafael Abella · 1939
Synopsis
Candelario Paparulo, the character Eduardo Depauli had made popular on Montevideo radio, receives a radio set from a wealthy patroness. He is engaged, and his troubles begin when the patroness discovers that her fortune has vanished and decides to sell the set again. The comedy, mixed with musical numbers, parades figures and characters of the radio of the time, among them the Méndez sisters, singers.
Context
The film was released in August 1939, shot at the Cineson studios, with photography by Henry Maurice and sound by Francisco Tastás Moreno. It rests on the popularity of Depauli, who came from carnival and then moved to radio in 1931, and who had drawn seventy thousand people to the Estadio Centenario in 1936; the comedy of its performer accounts for much of its success. A history of Uruguayan cinema ranks it among the popular comedies built on radio personalities.
Who it is for
A musical comedy in Spanish, light in tone, carried by the radio stars of the thirties.
Prizes and reception
A popular comedy, it was a box-office success, carried by the radio fame of its lead performer.