Traces of the Past


Traces of the Past is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and starring Libertad Lamarque, alongside Emilia Guiú, José María Linares-Rivas and Xavier Loyá. It was shot at the Tepeyac Studios in Mexico City. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward Fitzgerald. The film is considered one of Lamarque's "mother melodramas" that she made in Mexico.

Plot

Isabel is a woman who left behind her career as a singer to marry lawyer Federico Montero. Isabel's past as a singer torments Federico, who finds it immoral, and after an incident following Isabel's chance encounter with a former boyfriend, he leaves her, taking their son Raúl away from her. Years pass, and Isabel, who in the meantime reassumed her career as a singer as "Issa Valetti", upon learning of Federico's death, goes searching for Raúl. She eventually finds the now grown up Raúl, who now has become a hard-drinking man who hates his mother despite having no memory of her, and is in a relationship with Amanda, a gold-digger. With Raúl unaware about the relationship he has with Isabel, Isabel tries to change his mind about his mother, but to her dismay, she finds out that Raúl has fallen in love with her "Issa Valetti" persona.

Cast