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Paulina Rubio Dosamantes is a Mexican musician, actress and television host. She was born in 1971 at Mexico City. She started her music career as a memebr of the pop band Timbiriche before leaving to pursue a solo career in 1991.
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Alfonso Arau is a Mexican actor, producer, director and writer. He was born in 1932 at Mexico City.
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Alfonso Bedoya was a Mexican actor. He was born in 1904 at Vicam and died in 1957. He was a character actor who achieved his greatest success in American. films. He was born in a tiny village in Mexico and had a nomadic upbringing, living in numerous places throughout the country including, for a time, Mexico City. He received a private education in Houston, Texas as a teenager, but dropped out and roamed about doing an assortment of jobs. His family, however, brought him back to Mexico City, where he subsequently found work in the struggling Mexican film industry. He appeared in many Mexican films before the director John Huston offered him the role of Gold Hat in the 1948 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. Bedoya stole the scenes in which he appeared as the smiling cutthroat and delivered the famous line about not needing any 'stinking badges'. He made a number of popular films in the USA in the next nine years, but a drinking problem destroyed his health.
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Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) was a Mexican comedian, actor, write, singer and film producer. He was born in 1911 at Mexico City and died in 1993 of lung cancer.
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Pedro Armendariz (Pedro Gregorio Armendariz Hastings) was a Mexican actor. He was born in 1912 at Mexico City and died in 1963 when he deliberately shot himself after learning that he had terminal cancer.
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Ricardo Montalban is a Mexican actor and film director. He was born in 1920 at Mexico City. He is perhaps best known for playing the role of 'Mr. Roarke' in the popular 1970's television series 'Fantasy Island'.
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Margo (real name Maria Marguerita Guadelupe Boldao y Castilla) was a Mexican actress. She was born in 1918 at Mexico City and died in 1985 of brain cancer.
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Sophie Von Kessel is a German actress. She was born in 1968 at Mexico City.
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The Battle of Contreras was a short battle during the Mexican War between Pillow's and Twiggs' divisions of General Scott's army and forces led by Valencia, of Santa Anna's army. The battle took place between August the 19th and 20th 1847 . Pillow and Twiggs had been left by Scott upon the construction of a road during his approach to Mexico City. On August the 19th Valencia made an attack, but was repulsed and ordered by Santa Anna to retreat. This he refused to do and the next day his camp was attacked and his forces routed.
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Cronos is a horror film starring Federico Luppi in a story about a vampire in Mexico City. Cronos was directed by Guillermo del Toro in 1992.
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