Forgotten Faces (1952 film)

Forgotten Faces (Spanish: Rostros olvidados) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring Libertad Lamarque, Julián Soler, Alicia Caro and Ramón Gay.

[1][2][3] Rosario Velázquez (Libertad Lamarque) is a singer who has an affair with Roberto Casahonda (Julián Soler), a married man, with whom she has a daughter.

The film's executive producer, Alfonso Patiño Gómez, stated that he viewed the combination of director Julio Bracho and leading actress Libertad Lamarque as "strange", describing them as "very heterogeneous elements", since "he is not the characteristic type to direct melodramas and she is the best interpreter of this type".

[4] Jesús Ibarra in Los Bracho: tres generaciones de cine mexicano said regarding contemporary reception of the film that "the criticism was very benevolent", and that it "meant a new box office success" for director Julio Bracho.

[4] However, a retrospective review by Carlos Fuentes in Pantallas de plata described it as an "unclassifiable melodrama," "with Libertad Lamarque in her umpteenth interpretation of the mater dolorosa.