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Pedro Infante in 1949. Pedro Infante was born 18 November 1917 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, [1] [2] the son of Delfino Infante García (24 December 1880 – 17 March 1955), who played the double bass in a band, and Maria del Refugio Cruz Aranda.
He was the first to die of the "Tres Gallos Mexicanos", or "Three Mexican Roosters" (as he, Pedro Infante and Javier Solís, a younger star, were called; the three died within a span of 13 years). Thousands of fans attended his funeral and followed the hearse to the Panteón Jardín cemetery, where he was buried in the actors' corner. On ...
Following the 1957 death of Pedro Infante in a plane crash in Mérida, Yucatán, Solís experienced a surge of popularity, not least because he was considered the last of the "Three Mexican Roosters" who along with Infante and Jorge Negrete, had been the idols of Mexican music and cinema. [6]
On April 15, 1957, the whole country mourned with the news of the death of Pedro Infante. His death was one of the markers of the end of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. The first Mexican television transmissions started in 1950. By 1956, TV antennas were common in Mexican homes, and new media grew rapidly in the country outside the capital city.
Llamas and Pedro Infante maintained a cordial relationship for the following ten years, until his untimely death on 15 April 1957. Pedro Infante was an avid pilot. He was piloting his own multiengine plane to Mexico City , when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Mérida, Yucatán causing his death, along with the deaths of his co-pilot and ...
It was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival, where Pedro Infante won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. [1] The film also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 15th Golden Globe Awards. [2] [3] It was to be Infante's last film before his death in a plane crash in 1957. [4]
Ranchera singer and movie star Pedro Infante was the most successful performer of the 50s in Mexico; he recorded at least twenty-six of the songs that appear on the Mexican year-end charts throughout the decade until his death in 1957.
Lupita Infante Esparza [1] is the daughter of Marisol Esparza and actor Pedro Infante Torrentera [Wikidata]. [2] Her paternal grandparents are Mexican performers Lupita Torrentera and Pedro Infante. [3] [4] Infante's mother moved to the United States from Zacatecas when she was 16. [2] Infante was raised in a working class family in Downey ...