Aventurera ("Adventuress" in English) is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout and starring Ninón Sevilla and Andrea Palma.
It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City with sets designed by the art director Manuel Fontanals.
The quiet life of the young Elena changes dramatically when her mother runs off with her lover, causing the suicide of her father.
Hungry and still looking for work, Elena bumps into an old friend, Lucio, who takes her to dinner at a cabaret, promising her a secretarial job and getting her drunk on expensive champagne.
She has received an elegant bouquet from Mario a handsome young lawyer who proposes and begs her to come back to Guadalajara with him.
He leaves and Elena is preparing for her show when Pacomio reveals himself and threatens to tell the police where to find her if she doesn't let him become her agent and sign a contract giving him 50% of her earnings.
Elena convinces Mario to let her stay in a hotel until their wedding and Rosaura confronts her there, demanding her to leave the family in peace.
The pair are married that Friday and Elena gets drunk with Ricardo and embarrasses Mario by dancing provocatively during the reception.
Elena repeatedly tests her boundaries with Rosaura, taunting her with her control over Mario, even asking that he use his connections as a lawyer to free Lucio from prison.
Ninón Sevilla turning crazy all the critics of Cahiers du cinéma, which wrote some of the most ardent pages that have been engaged of any Mexican actress in that journal.
Over the years, the stage production featured Mexican stars Edith González, Itatí Cantoral, Maribel Guardia and many others.
Olmos' stage adaptation featured additional characters not in the movie, including "Bugambilia," a fugitive who poses as a woman entertainer to escape the authorities, and "Comandante Treviño," a corrupt police chief.
The music was played live on stage by the Chuy Millán Orchestra, and featured a collection of classic mambo, rumba and cha-cha-cha tunes.
The story eliminated the characters created by Olmos in 1997, and followed the movie's storyline closer than the previous adaptation, with few slight variations.