On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
Rosita Díaz Gimeno
as Pepita Jimenez
Ricardo Montalban
as Luis Vargas
Fortunio Bonanova
as Don Pedro Vargas
Consuelo Guerrero de Luna
as Antonieta
Carlos Orellana
as Padre Belisario
Rafael Alcayde
as Conde
José Morcillo
as Don Gumersindo
Antonio Bravo
as Poeta
Manuel Noriega
as Ceferino
Conchita Sáenz
as Tía Casilda
Manuel Pozos
as Don Hermogenes
Luis Mussot
as Don Onofre
