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...
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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...
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo...
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Antonio Banderas (category Spanish expatriates in the United Kingdom)
American film debut with the musical drama The Mambo Kings (1992), followed by roles in Philadelphia (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Assassins...
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American film debut with the musical drama The Mambo Kings (1992), followed by roles in Philadelphia (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Assassins...
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Tito Puente (category Mambo musicians)
He composed dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz music. Puente and his music have appeared in films including The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba's Calle...
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Desi Arnaz Jr. (category New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners)
in the short-lived TV series Automan, which ran from 1983 to 1984 in only 12 episodes. In 1992, he played his father in the movie The Mambo Kings, based...
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Oscar Hijuelos (redirect from Our House in the Last World)
and advertising copy. For his second novel, adapted for the movie The Mambo Kings, he became the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Hijuelos...
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featured in the 1992 motion picture The Mambo Kings. In the film, it is performed in Spanish by Antonio Banderas and in English by Los Lobos. The song was...
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Frank Grillo (category Male actors from the Bronx)
Sure deodorant. His first film role was in 1992's The Mambo Kings, and he went on to appear in the films Minority Report (2002), April's Shower (2006)...
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studied acting at the Charles Conrad Studios. Pinson later made her screen debut appearing in the 1992 drama film The Mambo Kings playing secondary role...
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Cote de Pablo (category Chilean emigrants to the United States)
2005, De Pablo was about to make her Broadway debut in The Mambo Kings as Dolores Fuentes, but the show closed after a short trial run in San Francisco...
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cast as Lupe Lamora, in the James Bond film Licence to Kill, starring Timothy Dalton, and as Maria Rivera in The Mambo Kings. Soto appeared in more than...
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Arne Glimcher also produced and directed several films, including The Mambo Kings (1990) and Just Cause (1995). Glimcher was born on March 12, 1938,...
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War (1988) and The Mambo Kings (1992), but she is best known for her role in Devil in the Flesh (1986).[citation needed] Detmers is the mother of actress...
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mambo, mambo Mardi Gras mambo, mambo, mambo Mardi Gras mambo, ooh Down in New Orleans Mardi Gras mambo, mambo, mambo Mardi Gras mambo, mambo, mambo Mardi...
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appearances include one as a Cuban bandleader in The Mambo Kings opposite Antonio Banderas and in the adaptation of the science-fiction story Judge Dredd with Sylvester...
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by Hernan Diaz. The novel was published by Riverhead Books. Set predominantly in New York City and focusing on the world of finance, the novel is a metafictional...
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completed in the 1990s were Independence Day, Mercury Rising, Poodle Springs, The Fan, The River Wild, Wolf, Out for Justice, The Mambo Kings and Let the Devil...
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Cathy Moriarty (category Actresses from the Bronx)
Cop and the soap opera parody Soapdish. She also appeared in the musical drama The Mambo Kings and the horror anthology HBO series Tales from the Crypt...
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Desi Arnaz (category Mambo musicians)
Hijuelos's 1989 novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and is portrayed by his son, Desi Arnaz Jr., in the 1992 film adaptation, The Mambo Kings. Maurice Benard...
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Yul Vazquez (category Cuban emigrants to the United States)
the 80s, he was lead guitarist for two Billboard-charted rock bands. His musical skills led him to land the part of Flaco in the 1992 film The Mambo Kings...
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Ziva David (section Leaving the series)
2005 Broadway musical version of The Mambo Kings and had turned down other television roles to stay with it. However, the production was cancelled in June...
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a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Kingsolver was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel...
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Jonathan Del Arco (category Uruguayan emigrants to the United States)
starring roles on the television series True Colors, Sisters, The Wonder Years, and Blossom as well as a small role in the film The Mambo Kings followed. His...
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June Brown (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
(1972), The 14 (1973), Murder by Decree (1979), Nijinsky (1980), The Mambo Kings (1992) and the Mr. Bean movie spin-off Bean (1997). She also appeared as Tom...
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The film went on to gross $36.8 million in the United States and Canada and $63 million worldwide. Unlike Glimcher's previous film, The Mambo Kings,...
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The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was...
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the films In Country (1989), A Killing in a Small Town (1990) and The Mambo Kings (1992). In 2015, she joined as co-showrunner another prime-time soap...
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an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Wolf in the 2000 NBC miniseries The 10th Kingdom, his performance as detective Steve Thomas in Perfect...
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