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The King Of Mexico
''The King of Mexico'' (Spanish:''El rey de México'') is a 1956 Mexican comedy film. It was written by Luis Alcoriza. Plot A local radio station decides to try out an experiment and offers the first homeless man that walks by the chance of becoming a millionaire for a day. The fortunate man, Pablo Rojas (Adalberto Martinez), sleeps with other homeless people on the floor of a shelter. After living a day of luxury, he returns to the shelter to tell his friends that the life of a millionaire was not much different from their own: They ate, slept and worked whenever they wanted; the only difference was that the rich had ulcers. Cast * Adalberto MartÃnez - Pablo Rojas * Silvia Derbez - Toña * Elda Peralta - Elda Negri * José Gálvez - Raúl Olmedo * Rafael Banquells - Actor en pelÃcula * Nicolás RodrÃguez - Don Abraham * Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo - Director de la editorial * Antonio Bravo - Maître d' * Conchita Gentil Arcos - Dueña de vitrina * Carmen Fernett - Chela Sant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Baledon
Rafael may refer to: * Rafael (given name) or Raphael, a name of Hebrew origin * Rafael, California * Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israeli manufacturer of weapons and military technology * Hurricane Rafael, a 2012 hurricane Fiction * ''Rafael'' (TV series), a Mexican telenovela * ''Rafaël'' (film), a 2018 Dutch film People * Rafael (footballer, born 1978) (Rafael Pires Vieira), Brazilian football striker * Rafael (footballer, born 1979) (Rafael da Silva Santos), Brazilian football defender * Rafael (footballer, born 1980) (Rafael Pereira da Silva), Brazilian football right-back * Rafael (footballer, born March 1982) (Rafael de Andrade Bittencourt Pinheiro), Brazilian football goalkeeper * Rafael (footballer, born August 1982) (Rafael dos Santos Silva), Brazilian football striker * Rafael (footballer, born 1984) (Alberto Rafael da Silva), Brazilian football goalkeeper * Rafael (footballer, born 1986) (Rafael Diego de Souza), Brazilian football centre-back * Rafael (fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás RodrÃguez (actor)
Nicolás RodrÃguez Menéndez (21 January 1898 – 26 February 1966) was a Spanish-born Mexican actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1927 to 1967. Selected filmography References External links * Mexican male film actors Spanish emigrants to Mexico 1898 births 1966 deaths {{Mexico-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Rafael Baledón
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Comedy Films
Mexican may refer to: Mexico and its culture *Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America ** People *** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants *** Mexica, ancient indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico ** Being related to the State of Mexico, one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico ** Culture of Mexico *** Mexican cuisine *** historical synonym of Nahuatl, language of the Nahua people (including the Mexica) Arts and entertainment * "The Mexican" (short story), by Jack London * "The Mexican" (song), by the band Babe Ruth * Regional Mexican, a Latin music radio format Films * ''The Mexican'' (1918 film), a German silent film * ''The Mexican'' (1955 film), a Soviet film by Vladimir Kaplunovsky based on the Jack London story, starring Georgy Vitsin * ''The Mexican'', a 2001 American comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts Other uses * USS ''Mexican'' (ID-1655), United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films About Homelessness
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Spanish-language Films
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1956 Comedy Films
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine. * January 25– 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14– 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow. * February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany. * February 22 – El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Films
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine. * January 25– 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14– 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow. * February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany. * February 22 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Mondragón (actor)
Jorge Mondragón Roldán (April 30, 1903 in Mexico City – April 30, 1997 in Mexico City) was a Mexican actor. His son, Jorge Mondragón Jr., is also an actor. Selected filmography *''Five Faces of Woman'' (1947) * ''The Desire'' (1948) * '' The Magician'' (1949) * '' Lost'' (1950) * ''My General's Women'' (1951) * '' Love for Sale'' (1951) * ''The Atomic Fireman'' (1952) * '' The King of Mexico'' (1956) * ''His First Love'' (1960) * ''The Pulque Tavern ''The Pulque Tavern'' (Spanish:''La pulquerÃa'') is a 1981 Mexican comedy film directed by VÃctor Manuel Castro.RamÃrez Berg p.127 Cast * Norma Alvarado * Sonia Camacho * America Cisneros * Arturo Cobo * Mari Carmen Conde * Enrique Cuenca * L ...'' (1981) References *Biographical Dictionary of Mexican Film Performers "M" Part 2 1903 births 1997 deaths Male actors from Mexico City 20th-century Mexican male actors {{Mexico-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conchita Gentil Arcos
Conchita Gentil Arcos (1897 – 23 December 1982) was a Mexican actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema as a character actress in supporting roles. She was the sister of MarÃa Gentil Arcos, also an actress in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema; Conchita began her work as an actress in 1932, while MarÃa did not start her career until 1938. Conchita starred in comedies such as ''Mi viuda alegre'' ("My Cheerful Widow") in 1941 or ''Romeo and Juliet'' in 1943, as well as in ''Music, Poetry and Madness'' in 1947, as the dreamy and romantic aunt by Meche Barba's character, a fan of adventure novels that falls in love with Marcelo Chávez's character, or in '' The Lost Child'', also in 1947, alongside Chávez and Germán Valdés. She also appeared as the usurer who flirts with Pedro Infante's character only to be murdered in ''Nosotros los Pobres'' in 1947. The writer Carlos Monsiváis referred to her (alongside her sister MarÃa) as one of the "complementary faces" of Mexican cinema, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Bravo
Antonio Bravo (12 May 1906 – 28 February 1992) was a Spanish-born Mexican film and television actor.Agrasánchez, Jr. p.159 He appeared in more than a hundred and forty productions during a lengthy career. Selected filmography * ''Beautiful Mexico'' (1938) * ''I'm a Real Mexican'' (1942) * ''El Ametralladora'' (1943) * ''The Escape'' (1944) * ''Saint Francis of Assisi'' (1944) * ''Madam Temptation'' (1948) * ''The Great Madcap'' (1949) * ''Philip of Jesus'' (1949) * ''A Galician Dances the Mambo'' (1951) * ''The White Rose'' (1954) * ''The Price of Living'' (1954) * ''Drop the Curtain'' (1955) * ''A Few Drinks'' (1958) * ''El Esqueleto de la señora Morales'' (1960) * ''The Miracle Roses'' (1960) * '' Love in the Shadows'' (1960) * ''My Mother Is Guilty ''My Mother Is Guilty'' (Spanish: ''Mi madre es culpable'') is a 1960 Mexican drama film directed by Julián Soler and starring Marga López, Carlos Baena and Domingo Soler.Riera p.59 The film's sets were designed by Jesús ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Ortiz De Pinedo
Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo (November 2, 1910 – December 13, 1978) was a Cuban character actor best remembered for his numerous roles as eccentric businessmen. Married to actress Lupita Pallás, he was the father of famous comedian Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo. Selected filmography *''School for Tramps'' (1955) *'' The Sin of Being a Woman'' (1955) *''Drop the Curtain'' (1955) *''Look What Happened to Samson'' (1955) *''Barefoot Sultan'' (1956) *''The King of Mexico'' (1956) *'' Las aventuras de Pito Pérez'' (1957) *''Rebel Without a House'' (1960) *''Adventures of Joselito and Tom Thumb'' (1960) *''Three Black Angels'' (1960) *''El analfabeto'' (1961) *''La cigüeña distraÃda'' (1966) *'' Qué hombre tan sin embargo'' (1967) *''El médico módico'' (1971) *''La madrecita'' (1974) *''El miedo no anda en burro ''El miedo no anda en burro'' (Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey) is a 1976 Mexican comedy horror film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring MarÃa Elena Velasco, Eleazar GarcÃa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
