Bésame Catalina

A backstage musical that thinks it's also something else. A divorced acting couple is forced to perform opposite each other in a stage production of *The Taming of the Shrew*, complicated by gangsters. It’s not exactly reinventing Shakespeare, or anything else.

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George Sidney directed Bésame Catalina in 1953. See George Sidney's full filmography, where to start with George Sidney, or where to go after you've seen everything by George Sidney.

Bésame Catalina was released in 1953 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 109 minutes.