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Love for Love (film)

1950 film by Ernesto Cortázar

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 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ25207435 ↗
Source-derived summary

Love for Love (Spanish: Amor con amor se paga) is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Cortázar and starring Marga López, Antonio Badú and Víctor Junco.

The film's art direction was by Jorge Fernández.

Cast

Marga López as Valentina Méndez

Antonio Badú

Víctor Junco

Lilia Prado

Alfredo Varela

Felipe de Alba

Arturo Soto Rangel

Óscar Pulido

Conchita Gentil Arcos

José Muñoz

Armando Velasco

Salvador Godínez

Juan Orraca

Salvador Quiroz

Jorge Slim

References

Bibliography

Emilio García Riera. Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1949-1950. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1992.

Editorial summary

“Love for Love (film)” enters the record as 1950 film by Ernesto Cortázar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Love, film and Ernesto 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—1950, 1949, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Love, film and Ernesto.
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“Love for Love (film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Love, film and Ernesto provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25207435. The first chronological checks are 1950, 1949 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Love for Love (film)” 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.