"Mucamas de cama adentro: representaciones del adentro/afuera y las posibilidades de ascenso social en la era dorada del cine argentino"

The article analyzes the representations of bedside maids, inhabitants of the bourgeois house, in the Argentinan cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. Through comedies of manners such as Cándida (Luis Bayón Herrera 1939) and Cándida Millonaria (Luis Bayón Herrera 1941), and the more sophisticated films Isabelita (Manuel Romero 1940) and Eclipse de Sol (Luis Saslavsky 1943), the relationships of their protagonists with the rest of the members of the house are explored, as well as their interactions in the staging scene to discover how the inside/outside position works within the domestic nucleus. On the other hand, with the intention of understanding the possibility of social mobility for the maids in these films, we also analyzed the resolutions to the conflicts raised in the plots and the result for them, who are portrayed in a stereotypical and contradictory manner.