Edgar Neville
(Madrid, 1899- id., 1967) Writer and director of Spanish cinema.He studied law at the Central University of Madrid, entered the diplomatic career in 1922 and alternated professional activity with a literary career that began with his chronicles on the war in Morocco (1921).Later he collaborated in the publications Blanco y Negro, Nuevo Mundo and some humor magazines, at the same time that he published the collection of stories Eva y Adán (1926) and the novel Don Chlorato de Potasa (1929), whose title already denotes the humorous character that Neville imprinted on all his later work.
Edgar Neville
In 1929 he traveled to the United States and took charge of the Spanish consulate in Los Angeles, where he came into contact with the world of cinema, which at that time was becoming sound, and received several commissions to write the Spanish versions of films made in Hollywood, such as I want them to take me to Hollywood (1931).
Returned to Spain, he directed the film El malvado Carabel (1935), based on a novel by Wenceslao Fernández Flórez; in Italy he shot the films Frente de Madrid (1939) and Sancta Maria (1941).During the Spanish post-war period, he adapted for the big screen The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1944), by Carrere, and in 1947, Nada , by Carmen Laforet.According to film critics, his best works as a film director were The Last Horse (1950) and Duende and Mystery of Flamenco (1952), the only film in which his elegant literary style found a suitable cinematographic correspondence.
In his various plays, influences from authors such as Miguel Mihura, J.López Rubio and Víctor Ruiz Iriarte are perceived. Margarita y los Hombres (1934) was followed by his most famous piece, El baile (1952), which achieved great success and whose film version he would direct himself in 1960.Later wrote Twenty Years Old (1954), Adelita (1955), Forbidden in Autumn (1957) and Life in a Thread (1959).
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