MEXICAN & ARGENTINE movies in Brazil in the 1950s

During the 40s & 50s Brazil was a good market for Mexican, Argentine or Spanish movies... as of the mid-1960s onwards Brazilians were weaned off their cousins' Cultural Industry in a way that is still not fully explained.

10 February 1957 - great 'mariachi' singer Miguel Aceves Mejia stars in 'Aos quatro ventos' (A los cuatro vientos) produced in 1955, where he croons 'Cu cu rru cu cu paloma' among many other...

10 February 1957 - great Argentine singer Libertad Lamarque in Pel Mex's 1955's 'Escola de musica' (Escuela de musica) where she croons 'Brasil', 'A media luz', 'Guadalajara' etc.

26 May 1957 - big stars like Tito Guizar & Pedro Vargas together in 'Musica en la noche' (Musica noturna), a Pel-Mex super-production.

27 July 1957 - Cuban bomshell Maria Antonieta Pons stars in 'Que bravas son las costeñas!' (Mulheres de briga) a 1955 Mexican production.

29 December 1957 - Argentine singer-actor Hugo del Carril who started in films in 1937 and were really popular as of 1945... still made movies: 'Más allá del olvido' (Além do esquecimento) was released in Argentina in 1955 - when del Carril was already 43 years old.

17 May 1958 - Based on a smash hit written by Carlos Crespo, 'Hipocrita' was a typical Mexican melodrama of fallen women; Cuban bombshell Maria Antonieta Pons in 'Teatro do crime' supported by Mexican comedian Tin-Tan, Chilean balladeer Lucho Gatica, singer-song-writer Agustin Lara, singers Pedro Vargas, Luis Aguilar etc.

20 July 1958 - Mexican comedian Tin Tan may have been called 'a second-rate Cantinglas' but he actually had his own brand of humour; 'Ha mortos que não fazem ruidos' (Hay muertos que no hacem ruidos) was released in 1946; Fernandel was French but as he was a comedian too, and I usually saw this films at the same theatre I saw Tin Tan... well, that's why he's here.

3rd August 1958 - a more recent Tin Tan flick: 1955's 'Lo que le pasó a Sansón!' (O que é que há com Sansão?). Tin Tan had a special skill in sending up great ouvres of literature. Here are some of his titles: 'La marca del Zorrillo'; 'Simbad el mareado' (1950); 'El bello dormiente' (1951); 'El vizconde de Monte Cristo' (1954); 'El sultan descalzo' (sending up Ava Gardner's 'The barefoot contessa') and 'Los líos de Barba Azul' (1954); 'El gato sin botas' (1956); 'Los tres mosqueteros y medio' (1956); 'Rebelde sin casa' (1957) sending up 'Rebel without a cause'; 'El fantasma de la opereta' (1959) and 'El violetero' (1960).

16 November 1958 - At Cine Broadway 'Tin-Tan em Havana' ('Tin Tan en La Habana' aka 'El mariachi desconocido) released originally in 1953; see Rita Gam playing a red-skin in 'Mohawk' (1956).

 4 January 1959 - Mario Moreno aka Cantinflas in 'O engraxate' (El bolero de Raquel) in his first technicolor movie released in 1956 in Mexico.

4 January 1959 - Cuban bombshell Maria Antonieta Pons stars in 'Flôr de canela', a 1959 release in technicolor. Mexican movie industry was years ahead of its Brazilian counterpart.

26 June 1960 - Tito Davison's 1958 movie 'Musica de siempre' with an international cast like Riz Ortoloni, Tin Tan, Libertad Lamarque, Yma Sumac, Amália Rodrigues, Katina Ranieri, Edith Piaf, Agustin Lara and dozens of hit-songs like 'Suite moderna', 'Vereda tropical', 'Claro de luna', 'Ahululco', 'Yo soy la música', 'Entre 15 o 20 tragos', 'El cordon de mi corpiño', 'Granada', 'Mambo rock', 'Rock around the clock', 'Lisboa, no seas francesa', 'El día que me quieras' etc.  

7 April 1974 - Amazingly enough as late as 1974, a Carlos Gardel movie is re-played at Cine Marrocos and Cine Flamingo. 'Melodia de arrabal' (Suburban melody) was produced by Paramount and shot at their studio in Joinville-le-Pont in Paris, France in 1933.