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Under The Pampas Moon
''Under the Pampas Moon'', also known as ''The Gaucho'', is a 1935 American Western film directed by James Tinling and starring Warner Baxter and Ketti Gallian. Baxter plays an Argentine gaucho. Rita Hayworth also had an early role in the film. The film has been cited as a "ludicrously dated essay into South American caricature". Plot The womanizing gaucho Cesar Campo lives a carefree life on the Pampas. However, when a plane lands nearby he meets an attractive French singer and her unscrupulous fiancée who is so impressed by Cesar's horse that he arranges to have it stolen to enter in a horse race under a false name. Cesar pursues them to Buenos Aires and after a flirtation with the French singer and a series of culture clashes in sophisticated hotels and restaurants he rescues the horse and returns home. Cast *Warner Baxter as Cesar Campo * Ketti Gallian as Yvonne LaMarr * J. Carrol Naish as Tito *John Miljan as Graham Scott *Armida as Rosa * Ann Codee as Madame LaMarr * ...
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James Tinling
James Tinling (May 8, 1889 in Seattle – May 14, 1967 in Los Angeles) was an American film director. He worked during the silent period as a prop boy and stuntman, and directed primarily for 20th Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s. He has been cited as one of the best B-film directors for Fox, known for directing numerous westerns and lighthearted films, including ''Charlie Chan in Shanghai'' (1935). Selected filmography *''Don't Marry'' (1928) *''Words and Music (1929 film), Words and Music'' (1929) *''One Mad Kiss'' (1930) *''For the Love o' Lil'' (1930) *''The Flood (1931 film), The Flood'' (1931) *''Arizona to Broadway'' (1933) *''The Last Trail (1933 film), The Last Trail'' (1933) *''Jimmy and Sally'' (1933) *''Under the Pampas Moon'' (1935) *''Charlie Chan in Shanghai'' (1935) *''The Holy Terror (1937 film), The Holy Terror'' (1937) *''45 Fathers'' (1937) *''Lone Star Ranger'' (1942) *''Sundown Jim'' (1942) *''The Crime Smasher'' (1943) * ''Rendezvous 24'' (1946) *''S ...
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Armida (actress)
Armida, born Armida Vendrell, (29 May 1911 – 23 October 1989) was a Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian born in Aguascalientes, Mexico.A January 5, 1930, article in the ''Detroit Free Press'' says that she was born in Sonora, Mexico. Early life Armida came from a theatrical family; her mother Maria Camalich, her father Joaquin Vendrell was a well known magician "The Great Arnold" who emigrated to Mexico from Barcelona, Spain. She also had two sisters who were performers as well, Lydia Vendrell and Lola Vendrell. By the time she reached the age of nineteen she had a long-term screen contract. She purchased a home where she lived with her family. She aspired to send her younger sisters to college. Vendrell was just five feet (1.52m) tall with high heels and two inches less without them. As a child she spoke only Spanish. Vaudeville in California Armida started performing at a young age, when her family moved from Mexico to the United States, her father opened the ...
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Sol Lesser Productions
Sol Lesser (February 17, 1890 – September 19, 1980) was an American film producer. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1961. Biography In 1913, while living in San Francisco, Sol Lesser learned that the authorities were about to clean out the Barbary Coast district, a raucous area of gambling houses, saloons and brothels. He grabbed a camera and a friend, future Hollywood cameraman Hal Mohr, and roamed the area, especially the parts that were best-known before the area was shut down. (The Barbary Coast was not actually closed down until 1917.) This film is now considered a lost film. The resulting film was ''The Last Night of the Barbary Coast'', an early example of an exploitation film that was sold directly to movie theater owners by Lesser. With the profits from the film, he bought several theaters, and soon owned a cinema chain. Sol Lesser signed Jackie Coogan to a movie contract in 1922, establi ...
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Paul Porcasi
Paul Porcasi (1 January 1879 – 8 August 1946) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 140 films from 1917 to 1945. Biography Porcasi sang with the Metropolitan Opera. One of his early non-operatic productions was ''The Country Boy''. He ended his theatrical career with the role of Nick Verdis in '' Broadway'', which ran for 603 performances (16 September 1926 – 11 February 1928) at the Broadhurst Theatre. He reprised the role of Nick the Greek in Universal's 1929 film adaptation of the play. Porcasi's other Broadway credits included ''Oh Mama'' (1925), ''The Texas Nightingale'' (1922), ''The National Anthem'' (1922), ''Jimmie'' (1920), ''Little Simplicity'' (1918), ''Blind Youth'' (1917), and ''Follow Me'' (1916). Porcasi's film debut was in ''Fall of the Romanoffs'' (1917). He also was seen in MGM's adventure film '' Tarzan and His Mate'' (1934). Porcasi and his wife Rose Marie had a son. Porcasi died on 8 August 1946 at his home in Van Nuys, California, ...
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George J
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles L ...
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Arthur Stone (actor)
Arthur Stone (born Arthur Taylor Goetze; November 28, 1883 – September 4, 1940) was an American character actor of the late silent film, silent and early sound film eras. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 28, 1883, Stone entered the film industry by starring in several short film, film shorts for the Hal Roach Studios in 1924 and 1925. 1926 would see his first appearance in a feature film, ''Miss Nobody (1926 film), Miss Nobody'', directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Walter Pidgeon. During the remainder of the silent era, he would appear in over a dozen films, in either supporting or starring roles. 1926 would see him in supporting roles, but 1927 and 1928 would see him move up to star billing in such films as ''The Valley of the Giants (1927 film), The Valley of the Giants'' (1927), ''The Farmer's Daughter'' (1928), and ''Chicken a la King'' (1928). With the advent of sound films, 1929 would see Stone continue to be cast in featured roles, such as ''The ...
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Sam Appel
Sam Appel (August 8, 1871 – June 18, 1947) was a Mexican-born American character actor of the silent and sound film eras. He appeared in forty films during his 28-year career, mostly in supporting roles. Filmography (Per AFI database) *''She Hired a Husband'' (1918) *'' The Light of Western Stars'' (1918) *''The Silk Lined Burglar'' (1919) *''The Web of Chance'' (1919) *''La La Lucille'' (1920) *'' Two Kinds of Women'' (1922) *'' The Girl of the Golden West'' (1923) *'' Long Live the King'' (1923) *''Code of the Sea'' (1924) *'' The Lady Who Lied'' (1925) *''The White Black Sheep'' (1926) *''Revenge'' (1928) *''Love Comes Along'' (1930) *''Under a Texas Moon'' (1930) *'' Yankee Don'' (1931) *''Flying Down to Rio'' (1933) *''Grand Canary'' (1934) *''The Mighty Barnum'' (1934) *'' Hi, Gaucho!'' (1935) *''In Caliente'' (1935) *''Man of Iron'' (1935) *''Under the Pampas Moon'' (1935) *'' Diamond Jim'' (1935) *'' Rose of the Rancho'' (1936) *''Ramona'' (1936) *'' A Message to Ga ...
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Max Wagner
Max Wagner (November 28, 1901 – November 16, 1975) was a Mexican-born American film actor who specialized in playing small parts such as thugs, gangsters, sailors, henchmen, bodyguards, cab drivers and moving men, appearing more than 400 films in his career, most without receiving screen credit.Erickson, HaBiography (Allmovie)/ref> In 1927, he was a leading witness in the well-publicized manslaughter trials of actor Paul Kelly (actor), Paul Kelly and actress/screenwriter Dorothy Mackaye. Biography Wagner was one of five children, all boys, of William Wallace Wagner, a railroad conductor, and Edith Wagner, a writer who provided dispatches for the ''Christian Science Monitor'' during the Mexican Revolution. When he was 10 years old, his father was killed by rebels and the family moved to Salinas, California, where he met John Steinbeck, who became a lifelong friend. Steinbeck based the character of the boy in his novel ''The Red Pony'' on Wagner. Three of Wagner's brothers ...
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Chris-Pin Martin
Chris-Pin Martin (born Ysabel Ponciana Chris-Pin Martin Paiz, November 19, 1893 – June 27, 1953) was an American character actor whose specialty lay in portraying comical Mexicans, particularly sidekicks in ''The Cisco Kid'' film series. He acted in over 100 films between 1925 and 1953, including over 50 westerns. Biography Martin was born in Tucson, Arizona, when Arizona was still a territory, the son of Toro "Bull" Martin, a Yaqui indian, and Florencia Paiz, a woman of Mexican descent. of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. He started working in Hollywood in 1911, as an extra for Universal Studios, and also worked as a recruitment agent ("runner") for hiring Latino and Latina extras needed for specific films at Hollywood studios. In 1922, Martin produced a film, ''Tepee Love'', a romance, starring Martin and Dolores Contreras. The film played in Glendale, California, and Burbank, California, in 1922; a second film project never was finished. By 1925, Martin h ...
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Tito Guízar
Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino (; 8 April 1908 – 24 December 1999), known professionally as Tito Guízar, was a Mexican singer and actor. Along with Dolores del Río, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, as well as José Mojica, Guízar was among the few Mexicans who made history in the early years of Hollywood. Career In a career that spanned over seven decades, Guízar trained early as an opera singer and traveled to New York City in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara. In addition, Guízar performed both operatic and Mexican popular songs at Carnegie Hall, but he succeeded with his arrangements of popular Mexican and Spanish melodies such as ''Cielito Lindo'', ''La Cucaracha'' (''The Cockroach''), ''Granada'', and ''You Belong to My Heart'' (English version of ''Solamente una Vez''). In 1936, his song "Allá en el Rancho Grande" ("There on the Big Ranch") launched the singing ''charro'' in Mexico after appearing in the film of the same name, succeeding as well in the ...
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Veloz And Yolanda
Frank Veloz (1906–1981) and Yolanda Casazza (1908–1995) were a self-taught American ballroom dance team, husband and wife, who became stars in the 1930s and 1940s, and were among the highest paid dance acts during that era. They performed on stage in productions such as ''Hot-Cha!'', which ran for 119 shows on Broadway theatre, Broadway in 1932. They also appeared in popular films such as ''Under the Pampas Moon'' (1935), ''The Pride of the Yankees'' (1942), ''Honeymoon Lodge'' (1943), ''Brazil (1944 film), Brazil'' (1944) and ''The Thrill of Brazil'' (1946), the latter of which is credited as being of major importance to the growth in popularity of Samba in America. Veloz and Yolanda specialized in Latin dance, Latin ballroom dance styles, and opened their own chain of dance studios, where many middle-class people learned the art of ballroom dancing. The studios closed down in the mid-1950s as new forms of dance became popular. Veloz and Yolanda did much to legitimate ballroo ...
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Blanca Vischer
Blanca Vischer (January 5, 1915 – November 24, 1969) was a Guatemalan film actress who moved to the United States where she made most of her films. Vischer generally played supporting or minor roles, but occasionally played more prominent characters particularly in Spanish-language films made by American studios such as '' The Tango on Broadway'' (1934) in which she was third billed. Vischer also appeared in several Mexican films. In 1936, she featured in the Hollywood war film '' A Message to Garcia'' (1936).Wilson 873-74 Selected filmography * '' The Tango on Broadway'' (1934) * '' Wild Gold'' (1934) * ''Under the Pampas Moon'' (1935) * ''The Bohemian Girl'' (1936) * '' The Devil on Horseback'' (1936) * '' A Message to Garcia'' (1936) * '' You and Me'' (1938) * '' The Black Beast'' (1939) * ''Another Thin Man ''Another Thin Man'' is a 1939 American detective film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, the third of six in the ''Thin Man'' series. It again stars William Powell and M ...
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