Word: fernandez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint: "I'm sure the President won't need any coaching, but if he does, you can bet that I'll give...
...These hot nights, when quiet Indians in white suits squat along the highway watching cars from Vera Cruz labor up the mountains, they have something deep and puzzling to talk about. Today a veterinarian decided that one of Juan Fernandez' five steers was infected. Tomorrow soldiers will come, shoot it, bury it deep. Then they will shoot all the healthy cattle in the village herd and send that meat to market. The small owners will all be paid market prices. But what of the rule that no new cattle can graze on village land for two months? Where will...
...brings him no happiness, hurls it into the ocean. These doings involve a heady quota of drinking, amorous women, killings, gun-toting chases over desert and mountains. That the action is reasonably accurate as well as artistic is attributable to tall, broad-shouldered Director Emilio ("El Indio"-The Indian) Fernandez, who knows what he is shooting off his cameras about: he has been over much of that country himself...
This week Director Fernandez expected to fly to Hollywood (if the U.S. would forgive & forget his deportation record) to talk over plans for another U.S.-Mexican collaboration-this time with Director John Ford. He also wants to see Mrs. Goodrich about a part in a new Fernandez film. Said Indio: "If I see Goodrich I will say, 'This is nothing but a business proposition-my mind is clean...
...Montreal, Alexander Navarro Fernandez (or was it Carlos Lados?) from Spain (or was it Austria?) was known as "Count Navarro." He was a dapper little man with hollow cheeks, a dab of grey mustache, and a heel-clicking ballroom manner. He lived here & there, but he liked best the expensive elegance of the Mount Royal Hotel...