
Florencio Parravicini
Acting
Biography
Florencio Parravicini (1876-1941) was an Argentine aristocrat who lost all of his family's fortune. He then had to work as an actor, comedian, and scriptwriter. Almost all of his film participations were in Manuel Romero's tango movies. He committed suicide after being diagnosed with cancer.
Known For

An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
Melgarejo

A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but this situation is unstable because of the society prejudices.
Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina

Three Argentines who live in Paris and dream of returning to Buenos Aires but lack resources for the passage, find their opportunity when a landowner, a business man and his daughter arrive in Paris. In a game of rigged poker the three anchors obtain the money for the passages from the newcomers; it happens however that the employer has made an embezzlement and will go to jail if he does not return the money. The character represented by Parravicini, who is the true father of his adopted daughter, gives him the money won to solve his problem and the three remain in Paris to see them in an end with the best poetry of Romero crossing a bridge under the mist , silent, once again anchored but with the happy sadness of recovered self-esteem.
Three Argentines in Paris

A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them.
Margarita, Armando and his father

A revue theater company alters the mayor's life when it arrives in his town.
El diablo con faldas

Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.
La vida es un tango

To prevent her lover from marrying another woman out of interest, a young woman will pretend to be a man.
Luisito

A doctor find himself in front of the corpse of a woman who was the most intense love of his life.
'Til After Her Death

A woman and a young man, mother and son, meet on a Carnival night, creating confusion for their respective spouses.
Noches de Carnaval

Evocation of the Carnival of 1912 and of 1940 through 4 characters: an entrepreneur and three singers.