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Cantinflas Centennial

By Jaime Perales Contreras


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In this 2011 will celebrate the centenary of the birth of Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes, better known as Cantinflas. Comedian belonged to a generation of comedians bright golden age of Mexican cinema (1935-1959). These include Germain Valdez Tin-Tan - and his carnal Marcelo Chavez - Adalberto Martinez Springs, Antonio Espino Clavillazo the Manolín and Shilinsky duet and, of course, the great comedienne Fanny Kaufman Vitola. However, Cantinflas excelled them all with its innovative form of verbal expression and its particular way of dressing.

very young, Cantinflas began his career in traditional tents and theaters in Mexico magazine. According to the writer Carlos Monsivais, the origin of the name, is given precisely in the tent Ofelia, where, the famous comedian, one of the functions, forget his monologue and, facing an attentive audience, and not necessarily friendly, began to improvise his brilliant emancipation of words that made him famous. The public, with laughter, began to yell: The inflate! (which is what you make!), Other versions say, who shouted: blow up in the canteen! (Drink in the bar!) . Just joined the comedian's words and thus was born this particular manipulator of chaos called Cantinflas.

Cantinflas at the age of thirty, in the movies, comic couple began making the Russian-Mexican author, Estanislao Shilinsky in a series of sketches. Producers, seeing the potential of the actor soon after, began filming a series of films with Cantinflas as the main character. The first was called heart Do not fool yourself (1936). However, the film received little attention. It was not with the film there is the detail (1940), which launched him to stardom. At that time, he met the film producer and art collector Jacques Gelman, who produced all his films in those years was when the comedian also began to generate its billion fortune by signing a contract with Columbia Pictures, which was the American producer who undertook to distribute their films in the U.S.. Cantinflas After an overwhelming success in film, returned for a time on stage, starring in a play called I Columbus, (1953). In the play, the comic is a statue of Christopher Columbus, located on the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico, who comes to life and is confronted with the peculiarities of modern Mexico. Diego Rivera painted a mural in 1953 in the Mexican theater facade of insurgents, when it premiered the work in the theater. The mural is called theater history and in this the figure of Cantinflas in the center.

Three years later, Cantinflas was released in English, when acted as co-star for the movie Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), based on the novel by French author Jules Verne. The film was a blockbuster and Cantinflas received a Golden Globe and was also invited to join the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Later, he made his second film in English called Pepe (1960) which appeared in several Hollywood luminaries who shared the screen with the Mexican actor as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and Dean Martin, among many others. The film, unfortunately, was a failure. His particular humor was not understood by American audiences and the film was severely criticized. However, in Mexico, his success continued and acted almost continuously in 1957, Rachel Bolero until 1981, with Sweeper that was his last film.

Also during the seventies, there was a cartoon show entitled Cantinflas's show, which turned the same comic voice of his alter-ego in cartoons.

knew Cantinflas also stimulate the interest of artists and intellectuals. Already said that gave him a Diego Rivera murals. Was also an incidental friendship with Mexican poet Salvador Novo and columnist, who wrote the script film, The sign of death (1939), starring Cantinflas himself. Some little known is that the writer Octavio Paz in his youth had entered vocational doubts whether the diplomatic service or work in cinema as a screenwriter. This sudden interest in film as a way of living, it was precisely to see a Cantinflas movie, as he confessed to his first wife, the novelist Elena Garro.

Americans have compared to Groucho Marx Cantinflas, the French with Fernandel and Latin Americans have called the Mexican Chaplin.

In celebrating its one hundred years, the heirs of Cantinflas have announced that among other activities, will launch a commemorative tequila, merchandise with her image, a video game and the realization of a cartoon show. Mario Moreno Cantinflas

was born on August 12, 1911 and died on April 20, 1993 of lung cancer. The Royal English Academy adopted the term Cantinflas in his dictionary in 1992.

Cantinflas Celebrate toasting with a cup of coffee, and respond as he did in one of his films: Do you want your coffee with or without brandy cognac, I asked the actress, and Cantinflas, sure of himself , he answers: No coffee, please, miss.