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...film history. He anchored cowboy comedies, historical-political epics and dozens of vein-popping romantic melodramas. He played virginal student-priests (in El Seminarista -The Seminarian) and rogues who at the crack of dawn rose from a lady's bed and jumped out the window (in Dicen que soy mujeriego -They Call Me a Ladies' Man). The good-hearted heroes he played fought, they cried and, always, they sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning Pedro Infante | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

Envoi: He was a two-gun man. He was called a gypsy for his capaciousness. He divided his time (when he was not shooting people) between his mother, his beautiful Japanese wife, his many sweethearts. A real mujeriego (wolf), it took him only a few days to bring any woman under the spell of his green eyes. For fun he liked to shoot at the jars carried on the lovely heads of Sinaloa maidens, sportively drenching them with water. Only once did he ever miss. He killed a girl instead of hitting the daisy she was putting in her hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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