Rita Montaner

A happily married loving white couple bear a child who is a beautiful black girl. She blames her husband and rejects the little girl, who is mistreated because of racism.

A sizzling, feverish melodrama set amid Mexico City’s red-light district nightclubs, this explosive cabaretera film stars the white-hot Ninón Sevilla as Violeta, a rhumba performer who rescues a baby boy abandoned by a fellow dancer. Against the odds, Violeta raises the child as her own, all the while defending him from his father, the ruthless gangster-pimp Rodolfo.