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Gente bien

1939 film by Manuel Romero

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5533597 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gente bien is a 1939 Argentine musical film of the Golden Age directed by Manuel Romero. The tango film premiered in Buenos Aires on June 28, 1939 and the United States on October 8, 1939 and starred Hugo del Carril, Tito Lusiardo and Delia Garcés.

The score was composed by Francisco Canaro and Tito Ribero.

Editorial summary

“Gente bien” enters the record as 1939 film by Manuel Romero. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gente, bien and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gente, bien and film.
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Why this record matters

“Gente bien” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gente, bien and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5533597. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gente bien” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.