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Cantinflas
Comedian + Actor
Male
Born
Aug 12, 1911
Hometown
Mexico City
Died
Apr 20, 1993
Death Place
Mexico City
Other Names
Mario Alfonso For...
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes, was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin. The character came to be associated with the national… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1911
Birth
Born on August 12, 1911.
TEENAGE
1930
18 Years Old
Before starting his professional life in entertainment, he explored a number of possible careers, such as medicine and professional boxing, before joining the entertainment world as a dancer. By 1930 he was involved in Mexico City's carpa (travelling tent) circuit, performing in succession with the Ofelia, Sotelo of Azcapotzalco, and finally the Valentina carpa, where he met his future wife.
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TWENTIES
He married Valentina Ivanova Zubareff, of Russian ethnicity, on October 27, 1936, and remained with her until her death in January 1966.
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1939
27 Years Old
He established Posa Films in 1939, producing short films that allowed him to develop the Cantinflas character, but it was in 1940 that he finally became a movie star, after shooting Ahí está el detalle ("There's the rub", literally "There lies the detail"), with Sofía Álvarez, Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García, and Dolores Camarillo.
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In 1941, Moreno first played the role of a police officer on film in El gendarme desconocido ("The unknown police officer" a play on words on "The Unknown Soldier).
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THIRTIES
1946
34 Years Old
In 1946, he rejected Mexican film companies and instead signed with Columbia Pictures.
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FORTIES
1953
41 Years Old
On August 30, 1953, Cantinflas began performing his theatrical work Yo Colón ("I, Columbus") in the Teatro de los Insurgentes, the same theatre that had earlier been embroiled in a controversy over a Diego Rivera mural incorporating Cantinflas and the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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In 1956, Around the World in Eighty Days, Cantinflas's American debut earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a musical or comedy.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1992
80 Years Old
Later in a 1992 American interview, Moreno cited the language barrier as the biggest impediment to his making it big in the United States.
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1993
82 Years Old
In 1993, after his death in Mexico City of lung cancer, thousands appeared on the rainy day for his funeral.
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