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 ...

Charlie Chaplin reportedly called him the "greatest comedian alive." Mexican actor Mario Moreno, or "Cantinflas" as he was known, starred in scores of films from the 1930s up to the 1980s. In Latin ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

Ever since the regime of Madero, comedians below the Rio Grande have savagely sniped at pompous Mexican politicos. Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles’ Labor Boss Luis Morones ...

Whereas performers such as Maria Felix and Luis Aguilar added glamour to the golden age of Mexican cinema, Cantinflas was known for infusing the genre with his own brand of comedy. He was considered ...