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Heads Or Tails (1937 Film)
''Heads or Tails'' (Spanish:''Águila o sol'') is a 1937 film of the cinema of Mexico. This was Mario Moreno’s a.k.a. Cantinflas's third film and the second in a row with co-star Manuel Medel. After the completion of the film and with the help of Mendel, an already accomplished actor, Cantinflas decided to pursue a career of his own. The film was written, adapted and directed by Russian-born Arcady Boytler. The movie was placed on the 84th spot among the 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico, a list created by Mexican film experts. Cast * Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" as Polito Sol * Manuel Medel as Carmelo Águila * Margarita Mora as Teresa * Marina Tamayo as Adriana Águila * Luis G. Barreiro as Castro * Manuel Arvide as Hipólito Sol * Margarita Sodi as young Adriana * Jesús de la Mora as young Polito * José Girón Torres as young Carmelo * Dora Ceprano as Dora * Ramón Rey as "El Gallego" * Teresa Rojas * Emma Vogel * Blanca Rosa Otero * José Elías Moreno * Rafael Bale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Maus
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for '' Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro". The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πέτρα" meaning "stone, rock". The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic ''Kephas'' or '' Cephas'' meaning "stone". An alternate archaic spelling is ''Pêro''. Pedro may refer to: Notable people Monarchs, mononymously *Pedro I of Portugal *Pedro II of Portugal *Pedro III of Portugal *Pedro IV of Portugal, also Pedro I of Brazil *Pedro V of Portugal *Pedro II of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Tamayo
Marina Tamayo (September 27, 1919 – September 20, 2005) was a Mexican film actress. She appeared in seventeen films during the Golden age of Mexican cinema. Selected filmography * ''Heads or Tails'' (1937) * '' These Men'' (1937) * ''In the Times of Don Porfirio ''In the Times of Don Porfirio'' (Spanish:''En tiempos de Don Porfirio'') is a 1939 Mexican musical film directed by Juan Bustillo Oro and starring Fernando Soler, Marina Tamayo, Emilio Tuero and Joaquín Pardavé. The film, adapted from a novel, ...'' (1940) * '' The Eternal Secret'' (1942) * '' The Black Angel'' (1942) References External links * Mexican film actresses 20th-century Mexican actresses Actresses from Monterrey 1919 births 2005 deaths {{Mexico-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s Spanish-language Films
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Musical Comedy Films
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Films
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – ''The Good Earth'' premieres in the U.S. * April 16 – '' Way Out West'' premieres in the US. * May 7 – ''Shall We Dance'' premieres in the US. * May 11 – ''Captains Courageous'' premieres in New York. The film is released nationwide on June 25. * Monogram Pictures, who had merged with Republic Pictures two years earlier, decide to separate and distribute their own films again. * June 7 – Jean Harlow, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the decade, dies aged 26 at Good Samaratan Hospital in Los Angeles. The official cause of death is listed as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure. * June 11 – '' A Day at the Races'' premieres in the U.S. * July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITESM
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and Mixed-sex education, coeducational private university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses throughout the country. One of only 45 universities in the World to be ranked with 5 QS World University Rankings, QS Stars, it is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious universities in Latin America. Founded in 1943 by Eugenio Garza Sada, an Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT-educated industrialist, the university has always had close links with the Mexican business elite; as of 2019, it is the 15th university in the world with the List of universities by number of billionaire alumni, highest number of billionaire alumni according to the ''Times Higher Education'' and the only university in Latin America to appear in the ranking. ITESM is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convent
A convent is a community of monks, nuns, religious brothers or, sisters or priests. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican Communion. Etymology and usage The term ''convent'' derives via Old French from Latin ''conventus'', perfect participle of the verb ''convenio'', meaning "to convene, to come together". It was first used in this sense when the eremitical life began to be combined with the cenobitical. The original reference was to the gathering of mendicants who spent much of their time travelling. Technically, a monastery is a secluded community of monastics, whereas a friary or convent is a community of mendicants (which, by contrast, might be located in a city), and a canonry is a community of canons regular. The terms abbey and priory can be applied to both monasteries and canonries; an abbey is headed by an abbot, and a priory is a lesser dependent ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Hernández (actor)
Rafael Hernández (3 August 1928 – 7 November 1997) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in some 200 films between 1956 and 1990. He was born and died in Madrid, Spain. Selected filmography * ''The Mustard Grain'' (1962) * ''The Fair of the Dove'' (1963) * ''Brandy'' (1964) * ''El mejor tesoro'' (1966) * ''Canadian Wilderness'' (1965) * ''The Last Tomahawk'' (1965) *''Forty Degrees in the Shade'' (1967) * ''Another's Wife'' (1967) * '' A Decent Adultery '' (1969) * '' Blood in the Bullring '' (1969) * ''The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself'' (1970) * ''Una chica casi decente'' (1971) * ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' (1971) * ''Nothing Less Than a Real Man'' (1972) * ''The Cannibal Man'' (1972) * '' The Dominici Affair'' (1973) * ''The Marriage Revolution'' (1974) * ''Dick Turpin'' (1974) * ''Naked Therapy'' (1975) * ''Death's Newlyweds'' (1975) * ''The Legion Like Women'' (1976) * ''May I Borrow Your Girl Tonight?'' (1978) * '' Father Cami's Wedding'' (1979) * '' Spoiled Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toña La Negra
Antonia del Carmen Peregrino Álvarez (2 November 1912 – 19 November 1982), known by her stage name Toña la Negra (Toña the Black Woman), was a Mexican singer and actress of partial Haitian ancestry, known for her interpretation of boleros and '' canciones'' written by Agustín Lara. Life and career Toña la Negra was born Antonia del Carmen Peregrino Álvarez on 2 November 1912 in La Huaca, a neighborhood of Veracruz, Veracruz. Her father, Timoteo Peregrino Reyes (born c. 1857), played guitar and was a founding member of a guild of local port workers. Her mother, Daría Álvarez Campos (born c. 1867), sang at family gatherings. Toña had four siblings and three paternal half-siblings. Toña's paternal grandfather, Severo Peregrino, was from Port-au-Prince, Haiti and had immigrated to Mexico in the 19th century. Toña began her career in the 1920s singing tangos as the lead singer of the Trío Peregrino-Uzcanga. In 1932, she traveled to Mexico City and met songwriter and comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Ahuet
Julio Ahuet was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in more than a hundred and thirty films during his career, including ''Women Without Tomorrow'' (1951), ''Here Comes Martin Corona'' (1952), and the El Santo film ''Profanadores de tumbas'' (1966).Pitts, p. 190. Selected filmography * ''Heads or Tails'' (1937) * '' The Cemetery of the Eagles'' (1939) * '' The Coward'' (1939) * ''In the Times of Don Porfirio'' (1940) * ''The Rock of Souls'' (1942) * '' Jesusita in Chihuahua'' (1942) * ''Beautiful Michoacán'' (1943) * '' The Circus'' (1943) * ''María Eugenia'' (1943) * '' The Spectre of the Bride'' (1943) * '' Cuando habla el corazón'' (1943) * '' The Tiger of Jalisco'' (1947) * '' The Genius'' (1948) * ''Spurs of Gold'' (1948) * ''Midnight'' (1949) * ''Port of Temptation'' (1951) * ''Maria Islands'' (1951) * ''Women Without Tomorrow'' (1951) * ''We Maids'' (1951) * ''Here Comes Martin Corona'' (1952) *''The Martyr of Calvary'' (1952) * ''The Bandits of Cold River ''The Bandits of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Serret
Virginia Serret (1914-1958) was a Mexican film actress.Wood p.142 She appeared in around thirty films during the Golden age of Mexican cinema. Serret was married to the Argentine actor Luis Aldás. Selected filmography * '' Heads or Tails'' (1937) * '' Poor Devil'' (1940) * ''Con Su Amable Permiso'' (1940) * ''Woman Without a Soul'' (1944) * '' Porfirio Díaz'' (1944) * ''The Hour of Truth ''The Hour of Truth'' (Spanish: ''La hora de la verdad'') is a 1945 Mexican drama film directed by Norman Foster and starring Ricardo Montalbán, Virginia Serret, Lilia Michel.Mora p.70 It is set in the world of bullfighting. Cast * Ricardo Monta ...'' (1945) * ''Song of the Siren'' (1948) References Bibliography * Wood, Andrew Grant. ''Agustin Lara: A Cultural Biography''. Oxford University Press, 2014. External links * 1914 births 1958 deaths Mexican film actresses Actresses from Veracruz 20th-century Mexican actresses {{Mexico-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Baledón
Rafael Baledón Cárdenas (25 November 1919 – 6 May 1994) was a Mexican actor, director, screenwriter, and producer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He worked in both film and television. Life Rafael Baledón was on 25 November 1919 in Campeche, Mexico. He initially wanted to be a doctor, but could not pursue the career due to economic reasons. His acting career began working as an extra until he received his major acting job for the 1942 film ''María Eugenia''. The following year, he married actress Lilia Michel and had five children: Rafael, Leonor, Ana Laura, Lourdes and Lilia. On 6 May 1994, he died of a heart attack. Selected filmography Television Actor Director Film * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1942) * La Fuerza Inútil (1972 film) LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
