Red Cross Girls

Red Cross Girls (Spanish: Las chicas de la Cruz Roja) is a 1958 Spanish film directed by Rafael J. Salvia. It is a musical romantic comedy. Plot Four women from different social backgrounds - Julia (Luz Márquez), Isabel (Mabel Karr), Paloma (Concha Velasco) and Marion (Katia Loritz) - meet in Madrid while soliciting donations for the Red Cross, attracting men and becoming good friends in the process. Cast Antonio Casal as Andrés Luz Márquez as Julia Mabel Karr as Isabel Concha Velasco as Paloma Tony Leblanc as Pepe Katia Loritz as Marion Arturo Fernández as Ernesto Ricardo Zamora Jr. as León Reception The film critic Lorenzo Hortelano considered Red Cross Girls one of the best examples of the "well-meaning, humorous and nostalgic popular" Spanish cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, following a romantic narrative set against a background that "praises "the joy of the 'modern' Madrid of the fifties."