Whereas performers such as Maria Felix and Luis Aguilar added glamour to the golden age of Mexican cinema, Cantinflas was known for infusing the genre with his own brand of comedy. He was considered ...

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 ...

Wednesday night’s premiere of Lionsgate-Pantelion’s “Cantinflas” at the TCL Chinese offered a fine sense of Hollywood history. The biopic, which opens Friday, debuted at the same location where the ...