CancerTreatmentBooks.com
Information About Cancer and Cancer Treatment

Cantinflas




Mario Moreno (1911-1993), better known as Cantinflas, was a comedian from
Mexico. One time, Charlie Chaplin called Cantinflas the 'funniest man in the
world'.

Cantinflas did not start his professional life as an entertainer. In fact,
it is a little known fact that Cantinflas was in the military and later,
also a professional boxer before he dedicated himself to the entertainment
world, as a dancer. Cantinflas started out performing at a circus in the
1930s. In 1935, he joined the Follies Bergere theater, becoming a popular
figure on Mexico's theater scene. He also appeared in a few movies during
that time, but it was in 1940, that Cantinflas finally became a movie star,
after shooting Ahi Esta El Detalle. The phrase that gave that movie its name
became a Cantinflas staple the rest of his career. From there on, Cantinflas
went on to make more than 50 feature films, becoming a widely known
entertainer and legendary comic all over Latin America and in Spain.

Cantinflas went to Hollywood in the 1940s, making two movies, Around the
World in Eighty Days and Pepe. His participaton in Around The World garnered
him an Oscar nomination.

Cantinflas also became President of the Mexican actors' union as well as
Secretary of their filmworkers' union. The money he made he invested it in
real estate and in the sport of bullfighting.

Cantinflas has a star in the Hollywood walk Of Fame and when he died in '93,
the US Senate held a minute of silence to honor his memory.

Among the things that endeared him to his public was the way he used to talk
during his films: His characters, like El Barrendero, loved to strike up a
normal conversation with anyone in the movie, and then complicate the
conversation to the point where no one understood what they were talking
about, a practice that many of his fans found to be very funny.

Cancer - List of Famous Cancer Patients - Medical Topics - Medical_Terms - Medicine - Alternative Therapies -