Juan de Orduña y Fernández-Shaw (27 December 1900 – 3 February 1974) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor.
Subservient to the ideological tenets and preferences of Francoism,[1] he was one of the regime's standout directors during the autarchy period.
[2] Nevertheless, his film "Follow the Legion" has been seen as a disguised story of homosexual love, and de Orduña was a homosexual.
[3] He particularly earned recognition for his epic-historicist films,[4] including the extravagant Madness for Love (1948), "an immense commercial success".
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