Celebrating Silent Movie Day remembering Mexican star Ramon Novarro, leading actor from the epic “Ben-Hur” (Fred Niblo, 1925)

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On August 6, 1986, Mexican actor and filmmaker Emilio “Indio” Fernandez passed away at age 82. One of the most important representatives of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, “El Indio” appeared alongside Bob Dylan in Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (1973)

Chuck Mangione, in memoriam. He was a Grammy Winner, not an Emmy Winner, for this Music Score instead. Mexican actor Ignacio Lopez Tarso talks to us about this experience in the first episode of the first season of our podcast @125ycontando.com

Michael Madsen, in memoriam :(

Hoy en el canal De Pelicula (Mexico) la primera pelicula de tematica gay del cineasta mexicano Jaime Humberto Hermosillo “El cumpleaños del perro” (1975), protagonizada por los primeros actores Hector Bonilla y Diana Bracho y sobre la cual nos habla la actriz en nuestro podcast @125ycontando.com

Born #OTD in 1904 on Coahuila, Mexico, Emilio “Indio” Fernandez starred alongside Bob Dylan in Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (1973) after another western classic “The Wild Bunch” (1969) and before “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” (1974)

Carmen Montejo and Emma Roldan starred in Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s directorial film debut “La verdadera vocacion de Magdalena” (1971). Montejo, a Mexican acting legend on stage, film and TV, died on February 25, 2013, at age 87

Tongolele fue dirigida por el cineasta coahuilense Mario Hernandez en “Las noches del Blanquita” (1981), donde comparte creditos con Carmen Salinas, Lucha Villa y Maria Victoria, entre otras mas

Happy heavenly birthday to John Schlesinger, Academy Award Winner for Best Director of 1969 for “Midnight Cowboy”, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. He would’ve turned 99 years old today

Mexican actors Carmen Montejo and Antonio (Tony) Aguilar worked together for the first time in the Puerto Rico theater of New York in 1954. In the early 70s, according to Miss Montejo, also in New York Tony invited her to be part of the cast of the first gay themed western “Los marcados” (1971)

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Hermosillo’s biggest international hit is “Dona Herlinda y su hijo” (1985), starring Guadalupe del Toro, mother of renowned filmmaker Guillermo del Toro who worked as a production manager in the film and since then recognized Hermosillo as his film mentor. Hermosillo passed away on January 13, 2020

Hermosillo’s first gay themed film was “El cumpleaños del perro” (1975), starring Hector Bonilla and Diana Bracho, who talks about this experience in the eight episode of our podcast @125ycontando.com

OTD back in 1942 one of the best filmmakers of the famous generation of the New Mexican cinema of the 70s, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, was born, being his directorial film debut “La verdadera vocacion de Magdalena” (1971), starring Angelica Maria, “La Novia de Mexico”, and Carmen Montejo