Francisco Madrid
Encyclopedia
Francisco "Paco" Madrid was a Spanish
journalist
, writer
and screenwriter
.
, Franciso (Francesc) Madrid worked as a journalist in Barcelona, Paris
, Geneve, Madrid
, and Buenos Aires
. He wrote essays, novels, and plays. He was also active in Catalunyan politics. In 1931, he was appointed Secretary of the Civil Government of Barcelona. In Madrid, he was the vice-editor of the daily La Voz. Like many supporters of the Spanish Republic, he left Spain in 1936 for Argentina.
In Buenos Aires, Francisco Madrid worked as a journalist, most notably for the newspapers Noticias Gráficas, La Prensa, and the magazine El Hogar. But, his major contribution in Argentina was to the Argentine film industry. He wrote or co-wrote seven screenplays, among them the classic La Cabalgata del Circo
(1945), co-written with Mario Soffici
.
In Buenos Aires, he wrote Cine de hoy y de mañana, published in 1945, and Cincuenta años de cine. Crónica del séptimo arte, published in 1946. The later is considered a pioneering work, with a full chapter describing the origins and history of the then incipient Latin American movie industry.
Spain
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journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, writer
Writer
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and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
.
Biography
A native of BarcelonaBarcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Franciso (Francesc) Madrid worked as a journalist in Barcelona, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Geneve, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, and Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
. He wrote essays, novels, and plays. He was also active in Catalunyan politics. In 1931, he was appointed Secretary of the Civil Government of Barcelona. In Madrid, he was the vice-editor of the daily La Voz. Like many supporters of the Spanish Republic, he left Spain in 1936 for Argentina.
In Buenos Aires, Francisco Madrid worked as a journalist, most notably for the newspapers Noticias Gráficas, La Prensa, and the magazine El Hogar. But, his major contribution in Argentina was to the Argentine film industry. He wrote or co-wrote seven screenplays, among them the classic La Cabalgata del Circo
La Cabalgata del Circo
La Cabalgata del circo is a 1945 Argentine musical film directed and written by Mario Soffici with Eduardo Boneo and Francisco Madrid...
(1945), co-written with Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici
Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...
.
In Buenos Aires, he wrote Cine de hoy y de mañana, published in 1945, and Cincuenta años de cine. Crónica del séptimo arte, published in 1946. The later is considered a pioneering work, with a full chapter describing the origins and history of the then incipient Latin American movie industry.
Theater
- El mal que pot fer una dona, Barcelona, 1926. Premiered by Compañía de María Vila y Pío Davi in Teatro Apolo.
- Joy - Joy, Barcelona, 1926. Musical. Script co-written with José María de Sagarra, Braulio Solsona y Manuel Sugrañes. Music by Enrique Clará. Premiered Teatro Cómico.
- Reus, París y Londres, Barcelona, 1927. Musical. Script co-written with Pedro Puche. Music by Demon. Premiered Teatro Apolo.
- Pocker, Barcelona, 1928. Musical. Script co-written with Joaquín Montero, Braulio Solsona y Manuel Sugrañes. Musica by Enrique Clará.
- 9,000 pessetas, Barcelona, 1928. Premiered by Joaquín Montero.
- Ella, ell i un cafe romantic, Barcelona 1928. Premiered by María Luisa Rodríguez in Teatro Romea.
- 29, Barcelona, 1929. Musical. Script co-written Braulio Solsona. Musica by Demon. Premiered by Compañía de Elena Jordi in Teatro Goya.
- La Elena i els seus amants, Barcelona, 1929. Premiered by Compañía de Elena Jordi in Teatro Goya.
- Eureka, Barcelona, 1930. Revista musical. Script co-written with Braulio Solsona y Manuel Sugrañes. Music by Enrique Clará.
- She, She, Barcelona, 1930. Revista musical. Script co-written with José María de Sagarra, Braulio Solsona y Manuel Sugrañes. Music by Enrique Clará.
- La Comedia empieza cuando acaba, Barcelona, 1930. Premiered by Company of Camila Quiroga en el Teatro Poliorama.
- Dos damas en el tablero, Barcelona, 1931. Premiered by Company of María Luisa Rodríguez en el Teatro Poliorama.
- Que te parece Lulu?, Barcelona, 1933. Premiered by Company of Enrique Rosas and Matilde Rivera in Teatro Poliorama.
- El día que llegó Adelfa, with Spanish actress María Luisa Rodríguez, premiered in Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also adaptaded for a male character, premiered on radio by the Argentine actor Pedro López Lagar.
- La vida de María Curie, La Habana, 1940, co-written with Alejandro CasonaAlejandro CasonaAlejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many...
. - La Isabela, award-winning play -Argentores Prize- 1948. Premiered in Teatro Argentino by the Compañía de Nélida Quiroga.
Essays and Novels
- El ruidísimo pleito de las juntas de defensa y Millán-Astray, Barcelona: Gráficos Costa, 1922.
- Un diálogo con Don Ramon Valle-Inclán, in La Noche Barcelona, 20-III-1925. Reproduced in Entrevistas, conferencias y cartas, J. Valle-Inclán y J. Valle-Inclán (eds), pp. 275–278, Valencia, Pre-Textos, 1994.
- La senyora del senyor Blum, novel. Barcelona, 1925.
- A la sombra dé la aventura, novel. Barcelona, 1927.
- Los desterrados de la dictadura: reportajes y testimonios, Madrid, Editorial España, 1930.
- Ocho meses y un dia en el gobierno civil de Barcelona: Confesiones y testimonios. (Written under the name Carlos Madrigal.) Barcelona: Las Ediciones de la Flecha, 1932.
- Conferencia Grandeza y miseria de Luis Bello, conference, 23 July 1938, Centro Catalán de Rosario. Later published by Ateneo Luis Bello de Rosario.
- Valor humano de Indalecio Prieto," conference. Buenos Aires: Agrupación Asturiana de Ayuda a España Leal. 1938.
- Las últimas veinticuatro horas de Francisco Layret, Buenos Aires, Publicaciones del Patronato Hispano-Argentino de Cultura, 1942.
- Genio e ingenio de Don Miguel de Unamuno, Buenos Aires, Aniceto López editor, 1943.
- La vida altiva de Valle-Inclán, Buenos Aires, Poseidón, 1943.
- George Bernard Shaw. Sus ideas, sus anécdotas, sus frases, Buenos Aires, Schapire, 1951.
- Sangre en Atarazanas, novel. Barcelona-Madrid, Las Ediciones de La Flecha, 1928.
- Los conspiradores de Ginebra, novel. Published posthumously by Plaza y Janés, 1969.
Film Essays
- Film de la República Comunista Libertaria. Reportaje politico. Barcelona-Madrid: La Flecha, 1932.
- Revista Cine, co-edited with Jaime Jacobson. There, Francisco Madrid published the history of cinema in a hundred installments.
- Mario Soffici o el naturalismo dramático in Los directores argentinos,, collection El cine al día , 1944. Also published by JMCouselo, J.Gómez Bas y Kive Staif, Centro de investigación del Cine argentino, Third Mar del Plata International Movie Festival, January 1961.
- Cine de hoy y de mañana, Buenos Aires, Poseidón, 1945.
- Cincuenta años de cine. Crónica del séptimo arte, Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Tridente, 1946.
Translations
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, Barcelona, Libraría Bonavia, 1930. Premiered in Teatro Romea, Barcelona, in 1930. - Tres maneres de parlar, de André Charmul, premiered in Teatro Romea, Barcelona, in 1931.
- The Children's Hour, by Lillian HellmanLillian HellmanLillian Florence "Lily" Hellman was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes...
, translated as Las innocentes, premiered in 1936 in Teatro Corrientes, now Teatro Municipal San Martín. - Mujeres, by Claire Booth, starring Argentine actress Mecha Ortiz in 1938, Teatro Smart.
- Retrato de familia, starring Argentine actress Blanca Podestá, premiered in Teatro Smart.
- María Rosa, by Àngel GuimeràÀngel GuimeràÀngel Guimerà i Jorge was a Spanish Canarian writer, born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, to a Catalan father and a Canary islander mother...
, starring Amelia Bence y Alberto Closas. - Nuestro pueblo, by Thornton WilderThornton WilderThornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.-Early years:Wilder was born in Madison,...
, premiered by Compañía de Eva Franco. - Luz de gas, by Patrick HamiltonPatrick HamiltonPatrick Hamilton is the name of:*Patrick Hamilton of Kincavil , Scottish nobleman*Patrick Hamilton , Scottish Protestant reformer and son of the above*Patrick Hamilton , Church of Scotland minister and poet...
, premiered by Camila Quiroga. - Un invierno en Mallorca, by George Sand. Buenos Aires, Poseidón, 1943.
- La escuela de las mujeres y Roberto – Genoveva. Segunda parte de la escuela de las mujeres, by André Gide, Buenos Aires, Ediciones Malinca, 1954.
- La vida heroica de María Curie, by Eva Curie. Buenos Aires, Espasa-Calpe, 1941.
Screenplays
- Despertar à la vida (1945) Según El cobayo del Dr Arnó, by Carlos Alberto Silva.
- La cabalgata del circo (1945) co-written with Mario Soffici and Eduardo Boneo.
- Los pueblos dormidos (1947), documentary.
- La copla de la Dolores (1947) Según Lo que fue de la Dolores, by José Manuel Acevedo. It was titled in English, Song of DoloresSong of DoloresSong of Dolores is a 1947 Spanish drama film directed by Benito Perojo, written by Francisco Madrid. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alfredo Alaria* Imperio Argentina - Dolores* Lola Beltrán* Ricardo Canales - Mariano...
. - Olé torero (1949) by Benito Perojo.
- Sombras en la frontera (1951)