title: La Vendedora de fantasías
text: # La Vendedora de fantasías
  
  La Vendedora de fantasías (The Fantasy Saleswoman) is a 1950 Argentine crime comedy film directed by Daniel Tinayre. It stars Mirtha Legrand and Alberto Closas.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Marta (Legrand), a department store clerk, aids her police detective fiancé (Closas) in hunting down a gang of jewel thieves. She awakens to later realise that it was all a dream.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Mirtha Legrand as Martha
  * Alberto Closas as Roberto / Aníbal Ferro, "Pulguita"
  * Alberto Bello as Jaime
  * Homero Cárpena as Lavanca / policeman
  * Nathán Pinzón as El Cabezón
  * Beba Bidart as Olga Bernard
  * Francisco Charmiello as Pancho
  * Diana de Córdoba as Woman in hotel
  * Pilar Gómez as Catalina / mother of Alberto
  * Haydée Larroca as Cholita
  * Miguel Ligero as Garófalo
  * Alberto Quiles as Mucamo
  * Ramón J. Garay as concierge
  * Alberto Barcel as chief of police
  * Luis García Bosch as Borracho
  * Manuel Alcón as jewelry buyer
  * Carlos Belluci as Sereno
  * Fernando Campos
  * Carmen Llambí as telephonist
  * Jesús Pampín as director of orchestra
  
  ## Reception
  
  The critic King thought it was "good cinema and another opportunity to laugh" and Noticias Gráficas considered it a "funny, agile and very well filmed police farce". Film writers Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela write: "Successful at the time, today it can be seen as an exercise of formal and conceptual arbitrariness. Valued in part by the critics, it retains some effective moments."
  
  