Cuando los hijos pecan

Cuando los hijos pecan (When Children Sin) also known as Cabaretera (Cabaret Woman) is a 1952 Mexican film. It was directed by Joselito Rodríguez and starring Meche Barba and Silvia Pinal.

Cuando los hijos pecan
Directed by	Joselito Rodríguez
Written by	Mauricio Magdaleno (story) Carlos Orellana
Produced by	Luis Manrique
Starring	Meche Barba Silvia Pinal Jaime Fernández Rafael Banquells Fernando Fernández
Cinematography	Ignacio Torres
Edited by	Juan José Marino
Music by	Sergio Guerrero
Release date	20 November 1952 (1952-11-20)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Plot

Don Evaristo (Carlos Orellana), is a widower with two daughters Aurora (Meche Barba) and Tencha (Silvia Pinal). Aurora is a dancer and cabaret star, while Tencha suffers a limp. The assistant of Don Evaristo, Fidel (Jaime Fernández), is in love with Aurora, and suffers the contempt of the frivolous woman who works in the cabaret where she works and ends up involving herself with a gangster. Meanwhile, Tencha secretly loves Fidel. The virtue of Tencha is rewarded in an unexpected way.

Cast

• Meche Barba ... Aurora
• Silvia Pinal ... Tencha
• Jaime Fernández ... Fidel
• Carlos Orellana ... Don Evaristo
• Rafael Banquells ... Gonzalo
• María Victoria ... Olga
• José Pulido ... Ramón
• Fanny Schiller ... Doña Elena
• Dolores Camarillo ... Felipa
• Fernando Fernández ... Fernando
• Freddy Fernández ... El Pichi

Review

In this film, the Mexican rumbera Meche Barba shares credit with the young star of the moment, Silvia Pinal, who plays her younger sister in this melodramatic tale. Meche was known for her way of dancing in imaginary scenarios in Mexican cinema. This is the second film that Barba and Pinal shared credit (the first time was in the film The Sin of Laura (1949), one of the Pinal's first movies).^[1][2]