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The Mambo Kings is the soundtrack to the 1992 film of the same name, based on Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Artists featured on the album include Tito Puente , Celia Cruz , Benny Moré , Arturo Sandoval , Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos .
The Mambo Kings is a 1992 musical drama film based on the 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. The film was directed and produced by Arne Glimcher , and stars Armand Assante , Antonio Banderas , Cathy Moriarty and Maruschka Detmers .
Mambo is an Italian/American international co-production film, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti and Paramount Pictures written and directed from 1952 to 1953 by Robert Rossen and released in 1955.
Events and characters whirl through Cesar's mind, evoking what he has lost over the years: his brother and collaborator, Nestor, who spent his adult life constantly rewriting one song about a lost love; the many lovers who gave themselves up to him as he rose triumphantly through the mambo music craze of the early 1950s; and the way of life ...
"Mambo Italiano" became popular in Italy when Carla Boni scored a major hit with her version in 1956. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Also in 1956, [ 14 ] Renato Carosone , a singer and band leader from Naples, recorded a successful version that weaves in several fragments of Neapolitan song , of which he was a leading exponent.
To the Sound of the Mambo (Spanish: Al son del mambo) is a 1950 Mexican musical film directed by Chano Urueta and starring Amalia Aguilar, Adalberto Martínez and Rita Montaner. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Ramón Rodríguez Granada. It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City and on location in Havana.
Mambo Italiano is a 2003 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Émile Gaudreault. The screenplay was written by Gaudreault and Steve Galluccio, based on Galluccio's theatrical play by the same name. Both the play and the film are based on Galluccio's own life and experiences.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 57% based on reviews from 14 critics. [6] [7] John Walker, in Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guide, wrote: 'Oddly titled corny romance - it has nothing to do with the mambo - that is frequently implausible but gets by on the charm of its two stars.' [8]