The Boys Didn't Wear Hair Gel Before

The Boys Didn't Wear Hair Gel Before (Spanish:Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina) is a 1937 Argentine historical drama film directed and written by Manuel Romero and starring Florencio Parravicini, Mecha Ortiz and Santiago Arrieta.

There is another version of the same name directed in 1969 by Enrique Carreras with a cast headed by Rodolfo Bebán and Susana Campos.

Plot
The aristocratic Alberto Rosales (Arrieta) falls in love with the blond tango dancer Rubia Mireya (Ortiz) leaving his fiancée (Córdoba). His father convinces him to give her up and return to his respectable fiancée. Ten years later Alberto and Rubia meet again at a charitable event organized by his wife. He wants to rekindle the romance, but when his two children burst on to the scene, she leaves without a word. Though she still cares for him, she will not allow his children to become fatherless.

Cast

 * Florencio Parravicini as 	Ponce - Mocho
 * Mecha Ortiz as La Rubia Mireya
 * Santiago Arrieta	 as	Alberto
 * Irma Córdoba	 as	Camila Peña
 * Martín Zabalúa	 as	Carlos Rosales
 * Niní Gambier	        as	Inés Rosales
 * Alfonso Pisano	 as	Euclides García Fuentes
 * Mary Parets as	Lucy Rosales
 * Pedro Laxalt as	Jorge Rosales
 * Aurelia Musto	 as	Sra.Rosales
 * Hugo del Carril	 as	El cantor
 * María Vitaliani	 as	Sra. Peña
 * Amalia Bernabé	 as	Amiga de Camila
 * Fernando Borel	 as Jorge Newbery
 * Eduardo de Labar	 as Hansen
 * Homero Cárpena	 as Guapo Salinas
 * Malisa Zini	 as Amiga de Camila
 * Isabel Figlioli	 as Mujer del cabaret
 * Jorge Lanza   	 as Amigo de Rivera
 * Carlos Enríquez	 as	Vendedor de globos
 * Osvaldo Miranda	 as 	Amigo de los Rosales
 * Roberto Blanco

Reception
The film's title alludes nostalgically to the past, referring to an era before young men began wearing hair gel which was commonplace by the mid-1930s. It was a popular success, one of the major hits of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. It marked the film debut of the actor and singer Hugo del Carril who quickly went on to become a leading star. The film was remade in 1969.