Last Friday would have been the 100th birthday of the Mexican comic legend Cantinflas. By the time of his death in 1993, Cantinflas had acted in 50 films, won a Golden Globe, and even inspired a new ...

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.

It is hard to think of a Mexican everyman without turning to Cantinflas, the tattered, droopy-pants character created by comic Mario Moreno in the "tent theaters" of Mexico's slums in the 1930s. With ...

Cantinflas was a funny man. So funny that Charlie Chaplin once called the Mexican comic actor and philanthropist “the world’s greatest comedian.” Cantinflas (pronounced cahn-TEEN-flas) charmed ...

“Cantinflas” has been selected by the Mexican Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences to represent the country in the Academy Awards, where the film will compete for a nomination for foreign language ...

Mexico has named Cantinflas as its Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission, just in time for the film’s theatrical push into Mexico and Latin America this month. The biopic of famed Mexican ...

A Lincoln Center retrospective puts the spotlight on midcentury movies aimed at the masses that continue to influence filmmakers. By Carlos Aguilar Charitable charlatans, clumsy womanizers, enigmatic ...

This August Mexico celebrates one hundred years of the birth of comedian Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas. In Mexico, and throughout Latin America Cantinflas is recognized as a great actor and ...

Mexico City: "Cantinflas", directed by Sebastian del Amo, will represent Mexico in the competition for the Oscar for best foreign language film, the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Cantinflas, the impish master of hilariously nonsensical wordplay and ...

MEXICO CITY – It is hard to think of a Mexican Everyman without turning to Cantinflas, the tattered, droopy-pants character created by comic Mario Moreno in the "tent theaters" of Mexico's slums in ...

The film, directed by Sebastian del Amo and produced by Vidal Cantu and Adolfo Franco of Kenio Films, tells the story of Mexico’s most beloved comedian from his origins through his triumph in ...