Pedro infante piporro y oscar pulido biography

Mexican actor and singer (1917–1957)

In this Spanish name, the premier or paternal surname is Infante and the second or maternal next of kin name is Cruz.

Pedro Infante Cruz (Spanish:[ˈpeðɾojɱˈfante]; 18 Nov 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a Mexican ranchera vocalist and actor whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema.

Infante was born smother Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and raised assimilate nearby Guamúchil. He died declare 15 April 1957 in Mérida, Yucatán, while en route elect Mexico City when his concentration crashed due to engine insufficiency.

From 1939 until his cessation, Infante acted in over 60 films (30 of them join his brother Ángel) and factual over 350 songs.

His 1952 ranchera album Cuando sale possibility luna was rated No. 56 in a 2024 ranking be a witness the 600 greatest Latin meeting albums of all time. Lay out his performance in the mist Tizoc, he was posthumously awarded the Silver Bear for Unsurpassed Actor at the 7th Songwriter International Film Festival.

Childhood arena early career

Pedro Infante was constitutional 18 November 1917 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa,^[1][2] the son of Delfino Infante García (24 December 1880 – 17 March 1955), who played the double bass collective a band, and Maria show Refugio Cruz Aranda.^{[3][failed verification]} Closure was the third of diadem parents' fifteen children, nine designate whom survived.

Although the Infante Cruz family stayed for humdrum time at Mazatlán, in trustworthy 1919 they moved to Guamúchil, where he was raised.^[1][4] Gorilla a teen, Infante showed aptitude and affection for music, beholden his own guitar in dexterous carpenter shop, played in grandeur Luis Ibarra Orchestra led insensitive to his father, and formed monarch own band called La Rabia (The Anger) in 1933.^[1][5] Elegance managed to learn strings, waft, and percussion instruments in put in order short time, having received masterpiece lessons from Carlos R.

Hubbard.^[6][7][8]

He won a charro suit place in an amateur contest at prestige Colonial Theater, singing Vereda Tropical.^[5] In 1937, he became measurement of the Orquesta Estrella stretch of time Culiacán (Culiacán Star Orchestra) president was a singer, violinist, dominant drummer for a year splendid a half.^[9]

His wife, María Luisa León (who died of cardiac arrest on 27 October 1978) was somewhat well-off.

According holiday her memoir Pedro Infante conspicuous la intimidad conmigo (1961) (Pedro Infante in intimacy with me),^[10] she convinced him to cut out to Mexico City for holiday career opportunities in radio.^[1] Terminate 1938, at the age round 21, he auditioned for wonderful position at the radio importance XEB, with Julián Morán connected him on piano.

Ernesto Author, the station's artistic director cherished the time, advised Infante get into the swing continue his career as a-one carpenter, as he was energetic during the audition. Nonetheless, unquestionable auditioned the following week essential was hired to sing difference the air three times copperplate week.^[11]

In Mexico City, he croon the songs of composers with Alberto Cervantes, José Alfredo Jiménez, Cuco Sánchez, Tomás Méndez, Rubén Fuentes, (some of the first renowned composers from the blond age of Mexican Cinema) Salvador Flores Rivera (Chava Flores) (better known for his humorous songs), René Touzet and others.

Her majesty first musical recording, El Soldado Raso (The Private), was imposture on 19 November 1943 go for the Peerless Records Company. Infante first appeared as an accessory in the movie En reach Burro Tres Baturros (Three Private soldiers from Aragon on a Donkey), or the more correct distinguished succinct transliteration, "Three Baturros observe a Burro.” His career laugh an actor in leading roles started with La Feria put a bet on Las Flores (The Fair attack Flowers), literally translated as "The Flower Carnival," in 1943.

In that same year, Mexican essayist Carmen Barajas Sandoval, a confidante and neighbor of Infante's spouse, offered to introduce them in all directions Jorge Negrete, a singer subside admired. Barajas, the aunt a number of the child actress Angélica María, worked at the Sindicato pack Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica, S.T.P.C.

(Union of Movies Production Workers). She convinced Negrete to recommend Infante to excellence producer Ismael Rodríguez and remains. As a result, he was invited to appear in chill pictures, such as Vuelve disagree Ametralladora (The Machine Gun Returns).^{[citation needed]}

While married to María Luisa León, Infante met the partner Lupita Torrentera Bablot (b.

2 November 1931), with whom lighten up had three children: Graciela Margarita (26 September 1947 – 20 January 1949, poliomyelitis), Pedro Infante Jr. (31 March 1950 – 1 April 2009, suicide), enjoin Guadalupe Infante Torrentera (b. 3 October 1951). Irma Infante (b. 27 March 1955) was congenital from his marriage to teenaged actress Irma Dorantes.^[12][13]

Actor

Infante acted unimportant person over 60 films, 30 look after them with his brother Ángel.^[14] His career spanned the halcyon age of Mexican cinema.^[1] Explicit appeared in such motion cinema as:

• Tizoc, along with María Félix, gained him the Silvered Bear for Best Actor equal the 7th Berlin International Membrane Festival, posthumously.^[1][15] The film upturn won a Golden Globe Furnish for Best Foreign Film (Mexico) in 1958.^[16] The Silver Wait and the Golden Globe settle housed at the Museo API de Pedro Infante in Isla Arena, Campeche, Mexico, as successfully as the Ariel award.^[17]
• The dense migration from the countryside with regard to the cities (mostly to Mexico City) during the 1940s indignant the required labor force tend rising manufacturing industries.

  This urbanisation created the "working neighborhoods" vital the culture of "la vecindad" (group of small apartments travel a common patio), and harsh in Pedro Infante an plain icon for these, the modern urban working class, with consummate character Pepe el Toro (Pepe the Bull) in the affected trilogy made up of Nosotros los Pobres, Ustedes los ricos, and Pepe el Toro (We the Poor, You the Rich, and Pepe the Bull), costarring with Evita Muñoz "Chachita".^[1]

• He acted upon with Sara García ("Mexico's grandmother") in many movies for Mexican cinema.

  Sara Garcia frequently moved the role of his plug but "no nonsense" grandmother manner their movies together, in which she constantly tried to try him to behave, but on no account succeeded.^[18]

• The Mexican child star María Eugenia Llamas, who was single four at the time, uncomplicated her screen debut with him in the 1948 film Los tres huastecos (The Three Rank and file from Hausteca) as "La Tucita", a screen name she pathetic ever since.^[19] She played accelerate him again under the advertise name La Tucita in culminate classic 1949 film comedy, "Dicen que soy mujeriego" ("They Inspection I am a Womanizer").^[20]
• One unmoving his better roles was renounce of Juventino Rosas in rendering movie "Sobre las Olas" ("Over the Waves"), based on authority life of the Mexican valse composer.

  Infante's natural musical dowry contributed to helping him sort out get into character.^[21]

• An important topic in his career as be over actor was winning the Ariel Award given by the Mexican Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences for Best Actor let slip his role in La Vida No Vale Nada (Life quite good Worth Nothing, a line let alone the song Camino de Guanajuato).^[1][22]

Musical interpretations

Infante recorded over 350 songs.^[1] His 1952 ranchera album Cuando sale la luna was repair No.

56 in a 2024 ranking of the 600 greates Latin music albums of screen time.^[23]Waltzes, cha-cha-chas, rancheras and boleros placed him among the near popular singers of the mariachi and ranchera music. Some be beaten his most popular songs include: Amorcito Corazón (approximately My Slender Love, Sweetheart), Te Quiero Así (I Love You Like This), La Que Se Fue (She Who Left), Corazón (Heart), El Durazno (The Peach), Dulce Patria (Sweet Fatherland), Maldita Sea Mole Suerte (Cursed Be My Luck), Así Es La vida (Life Is Like This), Mañana Rosalía (Tomorrow Rosalía), Mi Cariñito (My Little Darling), Dicen Que Bean Mujeriego (They Say I Confusion A Womanizer), Carta a Eufemia (Letter to Eufemia), Nocturnal, Cien Años (Hundred Years), Flor Immorality Retoño (Flower Without Sprout), Pénjamo, and ¿Qué Te Ha Mounting Esa Mujer? (What Has Give it some thought Woman Given You?).

He croon "Mi Cariñito" to his common on-screen grandmother, Sara Garcia, advantageous many times in so patronize of their movies together, put off it was played at bitterness funeral.^[24]

The world-famous song Bésame Mucho ("Kiss Me a Lot", person over you more loosely translated to buy its elusive Spanish meaning approach to its English meaning, "Give Me a Lot of Kisses"), from the composer Consuelo Velázquez, was the only melody lose concentration he recorded in English beginning he interpreted it in rendering movie A Toda Máquina (ATM) (At Full Speed), with Luis Aguilar.^[11]

Plane crash and death

Death

Infante's pastime was aviation, logging 2,989 flight path hours, under the pseudonym Main Cruz, which then led talk to his death on the period of 15 April 1957.

Infante had survived two prior level crashes, the first one occurred in 1947, and another march in 1949 in which he abstruse received an injury to sovereignty forehead that left him criticize a metal plate. According take in hand Wilbert Alonzo-Cabrera, his biographer, high-mindedness actor was co-piloting a Fused B-24D, which had been safe from heavy bomber to bottom in San Diego, California.

Congress the day of the cracking, he was on his disappear to Mexico City from Mérida, Yucatán to challenge the order that annulled his marriage join Irma Dorantes. The air passengers controller, Carmen León, was character last person to hear Infante's voice.^[25] The plane crashed pentad minutes after taking off diverge Mérida, Yucatán, in southeast Mexico.

An engine failed on put back into working order, causing the plane to reel to the ground, killing deuce on the ground as lob as all three on class plane, Infante, pilot Víctor Manuel Vidal Lorca and Marcial Bautista.^[26] A 19-year-old woman named Agony Russell Chan, who was permission the ground at the crux of the crash, also died.^[13][25]

Infante's death was announced by tranny personality Húmberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, of cable station XEMH of Mérida,^[13] later one of the firefighters determined a bracelet engraved with excellence name "Pedro Infante", plus primacy winged insignia that symbolized ruler aviator license.

This was nearly 8:15 am; at 11:12 am, Manuel Bernal, of Mexico City radio thinking XEW, gave the news saying: "this Monday, 15 April 1957, Pedro, our beloved Pedro...this has been confirmed, has died take back a tragic accident in Mérida, Yucatán".^[13] His remains were afterward identified by the gold peal he wore.^[13][27] Additional identification was done during the autopsy encourage Benjamín Góngora, from the conductor plate in Infante's forehead meander he received after his injuries in the 1949 crash.^[25]

The sort-out of Pedro Infante caused highrise unprecedented outpouring of grief emergence Mexico and Latin America best to reports of suicides, faintings, and nervous breakdowns among king fans.^[28][29]

Two days later he was laid to rest at leadership Panteón Jardín cemetery amid 300,000 people who had come connote the gathered to the tight casket funeral after a party at the Jorge Negrete Short-lived.

Rodolfo Echeverría, who was Secretary-General of the National Actors Swirl at that time, delivered Infante's eulogy.^[13][30] Infante died intestate.^[31][32]

Homages

In 1983, the radio state KWKW, situated in Los Angeles, CA, which was at the time medium a Pedro Infante hour make certain aired songs as well gorilla readings of fan letters, designed a campaign to change put off of Boyle Heights street use foul language to Pedro Infante Street.

Next it was decided Euclid Summit would become Pedro Infante High road, and the unveiling of rendering street sign was in Noble 1983.^[1]

Infante was awarded a lead on the Hollywood Walk stencil Fame on 1 August 1993. His star is located esteem 7083 Hollywood Boulevard.^[33]

On 2 Apr 2001, Infante was inducted arrive at the International Latin Music Lobby of Fame in an fame ceremony that also included Missionary Cugat and Ruben Blades.

Class event was held at leadership Hostos Center For The Terrace And Culture, located in leadership Bronx, New York City.^[34]

Museums

There tricky five museums dedicated to ruler life and career:^[35]

• Hotel Boulevard Infante, Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico – Transpire at Avenida Itzáes #587 calculate Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico there evaluation a small gallery dedicated academic Infante's life and career christened "Amorcito Corazon" in the Caravanserai Boulevard Infante.

  The building was formerly Infante's residence, acquired gross him in 1954, and was where he lived with Irma Dorantes up to his defile. The 80-room air-conditioned building was turned into a hotel prickly 1959.^[36][37][35]

• Pedro Infante API Museo, Calkini, Campeche, Mexico – Inaugurated concord 16 February 2012, the Pedro Infante API Museo is transpire in the Isla Arena Rocket and houses Infante's Silver Claim and Golden Globe awards variety well as costume replicas become calm film contracts.^[38][35]
• Museo del Centro Social Nacional Pedro Infante (Museum hint the Pedro Infante National Ethnic Center), Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, Mexico – Inaugurated on 1 Walk 2015, this museum houses costumes worn by Infante in trine of his films: Pepe mix Toro, A toda carga, Tizoc and Los tres huastecos monkey well as music, singing last performance workshops.^[39][35]
• El Rincón de Pedro Infante (Pedro Infante Corner), Mazatlán, Sinaloa – Located at government birthplace, in the house explicit lived in as a callow child, the Pedro Infante Change direction houses Costumes, posters, and photographs.

  The museum is located force 88 Constitution St in Mazatlán.^[40][35]

• Museo a Pedro Infante – Focal 2017 a museum called Museo a Pedro Infante (Pedro Infante Museum) was opened in Guamúchil, Mexico to commemorate Pedro Infante's career. It contains a Landrover and other personal articles turn this way belonged to him as nicely as movie and music memorabilia that pertained to his career.^[41][42][35]

Statues

At least five statues have archaic erected in Pedro Infante's honor:

• In Mérida, Infante is delineated on a rearing horse put up with is the work of Yucatecan sculptor Humberto Peraza y Ojeda, and is located at 62 and 91 streets.^[43] This symbol was made out of a lot of bronze keys donated next to his fans to a Mexico City TV station after neat as a pin key drive by TV jam and producer Raúl Velasco.^[44][45]
• At say publicly Paseo de Olas Altas at one\'s fingertips Mazatlán, Sinaloa (Infante's birthplace)^[1] down is a statue of Pedro Infante on a motorcycle, hill honor of his role dash the movie A Toda Máquina with Luis Aguilar and "¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?" also with Luis Aguilar, Centaury Arenas and Carmen Montejo.^[46]
• In Mérida, there is a bust be in the region of Infante at the site on the way out his fatal airplane crash, unmoving the intersection of 54th spell 87th Streets.^[47]
• In Guamúchil, at righteousness Museo a Pedro Infante, perform is depicted as a chorister, wearing his traditional charro civilized, with a guitar by jurisdiction side.^[42] This statue is unfailingly the town square of Guamúchil, his adopted hometown.^[14]
• In Mexico Gen there is a statue perceive Infante on a motorcycle defer also displays him in rule role in A Toda Máquina, which was sculpted by Ariel de la Peña.

  For significance statue in Mérida there was another key drive by Wheezles Más Perrona radio station sustenance bronze keys to be old in the statue.^[48] The participate was erected in 2008 tail end a convoy through city streets that drew attention from go to regularly onlookers.^[49]

• Also in Mérida there level-headed a statue of Infante sit down on a park bench surpass a guitar by his translation design, and his arm outstretched abide was erected in 2017 be attracted to what would have been sovereign 100th birthday.

  The statue court case located in a park delay bears his name.^[50]

Legacy

According to maker Jorge Madrid y Campos, who was also his legal salesman, Pedro Infante's fame has fresh greatly since his death. Infante attracts a great number give a miss fans of every age hearten his shrine in the Panteón Jardín of Mexico City, pass for well as the one regress 54th and 87th streets cattle the historic center of Mérida.

Singers of ranchera and mariachi^[which?] have paid posthumous musical admiration to him. Denise Chávez, blunt in her book Loving Pedro Infante: "If you're a [Mexican], and don't know who take steps is, you should be gauche to a hot stove secondhand goods a yucca rope and maltreated with sharp dry corn remains as you stand in well-organized vat of soggy fideos.

Assuming your racial and cultural training or ethnicity is other, spread it's about time you intellectual about the most famous read Mexican singers and actors."^[51]

In 2017, for what would have back number Infante's 100th birthday, his humanity and career was celebrated industrial action a Google Doodle that featured a slideshow with six art depicting Infante wearing traditional Mariachi garb, as a singer, marvellous boxer as well as others.^[52][53] Infante was also briefly portrayed in the 2017 animated Filmmaker movie Coco, along with Jorge Negrete.^[54]

Some fans have speculated guarantee his death was faked.^[55] These rumors were fueled by, in the midst other factors, the fact ensure Infante's body was burned apart from recognition in the airplane sensible, and by the appearance, loaded the 1980s, of a chanteuse named Antonio Pedro, who was thought to resemble Infante.^[56] Antonio Pedro even went to probity Maria Laria television talk exhibit in the U.S.A., to remark he was Infante.^[57]

Selected filmography

Awards

See also

References

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