Malvaloca is a 1942 Spanish drama film directed by Luis Marquina and starring Amparo Rivelles, Alfredo Mayo and Manuel Luna.
It is an adaptation of the 1912 play of the same title about a fallen woman from Málaga who eventually redeems herself.
[1] Following the film's success Rivelles was signed up on a lucrative three-year contract by CIFESA, the biggest studio in Spain.
[2] A beautiful and nice young woman from Malaga, whom everyone calls Malvaloca, is forced to have lovers to bring money to her house, when she falls in love with Leonardo, a friend and partner of her last lover.
The drama is unleashed because although he also loves her, they must fight against the social rejection that this courtship provokes.