When the Mexican comedian Cantinflas shunned the film companies of his homeland and signed with Columbia Pictures in 1946, he changed the course of Latin American cinema and lifted himself to ...

In the Hollywood hierarchy of stardom, Cantinflas, the beloved Mexican comic actor, was like a streaking comet – white-hot and short-lived. Though well established in his homeland, he was a relative ...

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"Man's first obligation is to be happy," Cantinflas once said, "and his second is to make others happy." The late Mexican comic was true to his word, and the indomitable optimism that drenches his ...

Sometime in the early 1980s, in an unlikely place – NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston – an elegantly dressed man wearing thick, dark-rimmed eyeglasses came rounding a corner with a tour guide at ...

From left to right, Mexican cartoonist Antonio Arias Bernál, Mexican film actor Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, and Cuban cartoonist Enrique Riverón. 194- by unidentified photographer.

As endorsements go, being declared the greatest living comedian by Charlie Chaplin would be a biggie. It happened for Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, a superstar of Mexican cinema who often ...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Sony Corp.’s Columbia Pictures owns the lucrative rights to 34 films starring the late Mexican film legend Cantinflas instead of the comedian’s son. U.S.

It’s not too much to expect a biopic to have something of the character of its subject. So it is disappointing that the charm, spontaneity and wit, which were the hallmarks of the immensely popular ...