"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 ...

The "Cantinflas" movie had its star-studded Hollywood premiere this week at the iconic Chinese Theatre. A fitting location, as it is there where Mario Moreno “Cantinflas,” the beloved Mexican actor, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Historically interesting story is painted in broad, colorless strokes. The iconic Mexican comic actor Cantinflas warrants a more amusing bio-pic than “Cantinflas” gives him. A historically interesting ...

Though 70 percent of the dialogue in ¡Cantinflas! is spoken in high-flying, fast-talking, double-entendre-filled Spanish, you don’t have to be bilingual to enjoy the play’s high jinks, which will run ...