The film was called “La Familia Esta de Fiesta” and had been directed by Palito Ortega.
Hours later, the actor, Luis Sandrini was doing a photo shoot for the publicity of the aforementioned film.
And he told Niní Marshall, who had co-starred in the film –“I feel weird. I’m like floating…”
Minutes later a brain attack knocked the actor completely unconscious.
At three hours, I was already in the operating room.
On the sidewalk of the Güemes sanatorium here in Buenos Aires. A crowd was gathering.
Sandrini, 75 years old, would no longer regain consciousness, although he would live another week until July 5, 1980, when his big heart would stop beating.
Sandrini was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito in 1905. Four years later his brother Eduardo Sandrini, also an actor, was born, who accompanied him in many of his films.
Luis was only 9 years old when his father, a railroad inspector and also an amateur actor, had to settle with his family in San Pedro.
There, at the age of 19, Sandrini became a teacher, a teacher without a position, like many, at that time, and I think in all times…
He was 20 years old when his family returned to Buenos Aires.
After completing his military service, he joined a circus.
First as a supporting actor, then as a clown.
Until circumstances, or destiny, or both, crossed him with Elías Alippi, that the actor Enrique Muiño was part of a prestigious theater company.
They incorporated it and premiered a play: “Los tres Berretines”.
There, Sandrini clearly stood out as an actor, despite playing a small role.
The cinema required it immediately. And he had to act in the first Argentine sound film, “Tango”, in 1933.
And that same year he already filmed “Los Tres Berretines” for the cinema, a film that consecrated him definitively. The following year he made “Riachuelo”.
Later he filmed “La Niñada de a Bordo”. Then “Crazy Cute”. “Giles’ Gunship…”. The list would be endless.
74 movies in total as I already said!
Marquees with your name, fame, money, popularity, applause. And he came to the radio – he would remain on it for 24 years.
He also did TV for 6 years, with an anti-hero type character: stutterer, naive, noble. Felipe was called.
But I want to allude to the human being that Luis Sandrini was, a simple and humble man.
And a radio operator “El Mundo” related this episode to me.
At the time when Sandrini played his character “Felipe”, the operator told the actor, during the interval of a radio program, that the next day, his only property would be auctioned off, due to debts, originated -he told him- by his passion for the game.
-“I have 5 small children. It only remains for me to commit suicide.”
-“When will they auction off your house?” Sandrini told him.
– “Tomorrow, Don Luis”.
– “Where is the auction?”
-“In Lanús, Mr. Sandrini”.
– “Write down the address and time. Tomorrow I will be there and I will buy it myself. Then don’t worry. I’m not going to evict him.”
The next day Luis Sandrini went to the auction, beat various offers and acquired the property.
Three months later, he went to a notary’s office to sign the deed of the property that he put in the name of the radio operator.
-“How much do I owe you?” the man said.
“You owe me two things: your silence about this and your promise to forget about the game.” And he said goodbye with a handshake.
The actor never mentioned this fact to anyone.
I think that this simple anecdote is much more important than his acting skills, than his films, than his entire artistic career. Because in the human he was also a chosen one.
I’d say he was even more altruistic than generous.
Because the generous gives something that belongs to him but the altruist gives something of himself.
Sandrini evidently felt the pain of others as his own. That’s why he felt less of his own. That he had it, human at last.
And a final aphorism not for the brilliant actor that he was, but for the noble and understanding human being that he also was.
“Who hides his charity is doubly generous.”
Source: Ambito
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