Abel Santa Cruz

Abel Santa Cruz was an Argentine screenwriter who is credited for writing nearly 130 films spanning seven decades of Argentine cinema. Santa Cruz first wrote the script for a film, Un Señor mucamo, in 1940 but it was not until ten years later in 1950 that his career had a breakthrough with his adaptation of the 1895 Oscar Wilde play, The Importance of Being Earnest in Al compás de tu mentira. In 1963 he wrote the script to the gangster comedy Alias Flequillo.