"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

W earing ill-fitting baggy pants held up at mid-hips by a rope and a small peaked hat, Mexican actor Mario Moreno created an indelible comic figure named Cantinflas who said nonsensical things but ...

In reality, the film was a great step in my career because it was like a charge or assignment. I was promoting my first movie, “The Fantastic World of Juan Orol,” and the producers offered me the ...

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 ...