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Corporate Editor: Gilbert Rogin...
...better. Compared with Hollywood's caricaturing of other minorities, the industry's treatment of Hispanics was benign. In the silent era of the Latin lover, actors named Ricardo Cortez, Antonio Moreno and Ramon Novarro all wooed Garbo on screen. In the '30s and '40s, Hollywood called on Cesar Romero, Gilbert Roland or Ricardo Montalban for Continental elegance and rewarded them with careers as durable as Corinthian leather. Even those two camp goddesses of the '40s, Carmen Miranda and Maria Montez, did not wallow in the spitfire stereotype so much as they exploded it, with wit and pizazz...
...Chicano murals in Los Angeles in the '70s and early '80s, noble if garish campesinos brandishing their fists from the concrete walls of storm drains. In fact, some remarkably interesting artists were involved with the Chicano-mural movement. Among them were "Los Four" in Los Angeles: Carlos Almaraz, Gilbert Lujan, Frank Romero and Beto de la Rocha. But to suppose that this was the main form of Hispanic expression is rather like imagining that Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is the chief work of art produced by an American woman...
Corporate Editor: Gilbert Rogin...
Corporate Editor: Gilbert Rogin...