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Netflix Spain, ‘Veneno’ Creators Los Javis Set Modern-Day Makeover of Before-Its-Time Spanish Comedy ‘My Dearest Señorita’
Netflix Spain and Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo Set a Modern Makeover of Spanish sex-change classic ‘My Dearest Señorita.’
Written and directed by Jaime de Armiñán, who co-wrote the script with José Luis Borau, who went on to become of Spain’s greatest directors of the ‘70s and ‘80s, directing “Poachers, ” the original comedy “My Dearest Señorita” starred top Spanish comedian José Luis López Vázquez, as a frumpy old maid in her ‘40s with an inexplicable talent for soccer who suddenly emerges as a cowed bachelor looking for a job in the city, and who begins a love affair with his former maid when he was a woman. In a second piece of news, Tita Cervera, a former Miss Spain 1961 and socialite, art collector and fifth wife of Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Thyssen, provoked a gasp of surprise at the Madrid press conference as the living legend of Spanish high society for the last 70 years appeared to announce a new docu-series project on Netflix. Produced by Komodo Studios, behind “Soy Georgina,” the series will portray the Baroness Thyssen’s day-to-day life “in which she will answer, first hand, many questions that the public has been asking themselves for years,” Netflix said in a statement.
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