El derecho de nacer

[The Right to be Born]

“El derecho de nacer” (Mexico, 1952)
Film adaptation based on the story written by Félix B. Caignet
Starring: Gloria Marín, Jorge Mistral and Martha Roth
Directed by Zacarías Gómez Urquiza | Produced by Filmadora Chapultepec
Lobby Card for its release in USA, Clasa Mohme
The Telenovela Archives Collection

“El derecho de nacer” (Mexico, 1952)
Film adaptation based on the story written by Félix B. Caignet
Starring: Gloria Marín, Jorge Mistral and Martha Roth
Directed by Zacarías Gómez Urquiza | Produced by Filmadora Chapultepec
Lobby Card for its release in USA, Clasa Mohme
The Telenovela Archives Collection

“El derecho de nacer” (Mexico, 1952)
Film adaptation based on the story written by Félix B. Caignet
Starring: Gloria Marín, Jorge Mistral and Martha Roth
Directed by Zacarías Gómez Urquiza | Produced by Filmadora Chapultepec
Lobby Card for its release in USA, Clasa Mohme
The Telenovela Archives Collection

“Il diritto di nascere” [“El derecho de nacer”] (Mexico, 1952)
Lobby Card for its release in Italy, Distribuzione SIDEN Film.
The Telenovela Archives Collection

Canonical text of Latin American melodrama, the story first penned by Félix B. Caignet was made twice into a film. It circulated across the Spanish speaking world and beyond. There were television versions, as well as printed ones, including a graphic novel. 

“El derecho de nacer” (Mexico, 1966)
Film adaptation based on the story written by Félix B. Caignet
Starring Aurora Batista, Julio Alemán and Maricruz Olivier
Directed by Tito Davison | Produced by Azteca Films Inc.
Lobby Card for its release in Mexico.
The Telenovela Archives Collection

“Le droit de naitre” [“El derecho de nacer”] (Mexico, 1966)
Lobby Card for its release in France, Distribution Valoria-Films.
The Telenovela Archives Collection

“Pravo na rodenje” [“El derecho de nacer”] (Mexico, 1966)
Poster for its release in the former Yugoslavia
The Telenovela Archives Collection

“Die Nonne Und Ihr Kind’ [“La monja y su hijo” / “El derecho de nacer”] (Mexico, 1966)
Poster for its release in Germany
The Telenovela Archives Collection

“El derecho de nacer” Suplementos (Serial Novel) No. 20 | Revista Sucesos, Mexico City, September 3, 1952
“El derecho de nacer” Suplementos (Serial Novel) No. 31 | Revista Sucesos, Mexico City, November 19, 1952
“O direito de nascer” Suplementos (Serial Novel) No. 5 | Radio-Teatro, Rio de Janeiro, February 13, 1952
“O direito de nascer” Suplementos (Serial Novel) No. 15 | Radio-Teatro, Rio de Janeiro, April 23, 1952

“El derecho de nacer”
(Graphic Novel)
No. 1, p. 1
Tele Editores S.A., Mexico City, April 11, 1967

“El derecho de nacer”
(Graphic Novel)
No. 1, p. 18 and No. 2, p. 23
Tele Editores S.A., Mexico City, August 1967.

Sources:
Bohemia, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries
Carteles, Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí
Fuste Show, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries

The Origins of Telenovelas: Serialized Fiction in Cuba Before the Revolution

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