Charlie Chaplin called Cantinflas the “greatest comic of all time.” Now, Herbert Siguenza pays tribute to Mario Moreno, examining his beginnings performing under the name Cantinflas in the rough border city of Ciudad, Juárez, and his path to becoming an icon of Mexican cinema. Siguenza intertwines performance and lecture, stitching together Cantinflas’s biography with famous film gags and illuminating his influence on a new generation of comics and social satirists, including his own group Culture Clash, perhaps the most prominent Chicano/Latino performance troupe in the country.
Above: Mario Moreno as Cantinflas.
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