"Our Man in Havana (film) Our Man in Havana is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs. The film is adapted from the 1958 novel ""Our Man in Havana"" by Graham Greene. The film takes the action of the novel and gives it a more comedic touch. The movie marks Reed's third collaboration with Greene. In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold (Alec Guinness), a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne (Noël Coward) of the British Secret Intelligence"
"on location in Havana, just two months after the overthrow of the Fulgencio Batista regime, and on 13 May 1959, Fidel Castro visited the film crew when they shot scenes at Havana's Cathedral Square. ""Our Man in Havana"" was positively received by film critics; it has a ""fresh"" rating of 85% (with 13 reviews) at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe best picture (comedy or musical) award, and Reed was nominated for best director by the Directors Guild of America, losing both prizes to ""The Apartment"". Our Man in Havana (film) Our"
"Pier 5, Havana Pier 5, Havana is a 1959 crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn starring Cameron Mitchell and Allison Hayes, with the unique distinction of being perhaps the only American drama filmed in Cuba just after Fidel Castro's revolution. Steve Daggett (Cameron Mitchell) fights to protect Fidel Castro from dangerous pro-Batista counterrevolutionaries. Steve comes to Cuba to find his friend Hank Miller (Logan Field) who has been missing for a while. It turns out that he has been captured by Fernando (Eduardo Noriega), the leader of the pro-Batista forces, who needs Hank to convert their airplanes into bombers."
"Holiday in Havana Holiday in Havana is a 1949 American Columbia Pictures musical comedy directed by Jean Yarbrough, and starring Desi Arnaz, Mary Hatcher and Ann Doran. The film is about a Cuban hotel busboy (Arnaz) who dreams of becoming a composer. According to author Mary Beltrán, in his portrayal of Carlos Estrada, Arnaz ""established a successful negotiation of tensions inherent in playing a Latin romantic lead in this period, a negotiation that set the stage for what would make Ricky Ricardo so popular with American viewers. His music, with songs such as ""Holiday in Havana"" and the ""Arnaz Jam"""
"Havana (film) Havana is a 1990 American drama film starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin and Raúl Juliá, directed by Sydney Pollack with music by Dave Grusin. The film's plot concerns Jack Weil (Redford), an American professional gambler who decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble in 1958 on the eve of the Cuban Revolution. The film is set on the eve of the Cuban Revolution's victory. On Christmas Eve, 1958, aboard the boat from Miami to Havana, Roberta Duran (Lena Olin) enlists the aid of Jack Weil (Robert Redford) in smuggling U.S. Army Signal Corps radios destined for"
"Steve's former girlfriend Monica (Allison Hayes) is now Mrs. Hank Miller. Pier 5, Havana Pier 5, Havana is a 1959 crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn starring Cameron Mitchell and Allison Hayes, with the unique distinction of being perhaps the only American drama filmed in Cuba just after Fidel Castro's revolution. Steve Daggett (Cameron Mitchell) fights to protect Fidel Castro from dangerous pro-Batista counterrevolutionaries. Steve comes to Cuba to find his friend Hank Miller (Logan Field) who has been missing for a while. It turns out that he has been captured by Fernando (Eduardo Noriega), the leader of the"
"Our Man in Havana (opera) Our Man in Havana is an opera in three acts composed by Malcolm Williamson to a libretto by Sidney Gilliat based on Graham Greene's 1958 novel ""Our Man in Havana"". Williamson's first full-scale opera, it was premiered on 2 July 1963 at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. The premiere in East Germany was in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) in May 1966, with Renate Haertel, Eva Lehoczky, Elisabeth Fuchs, Peter Slawow, Konrad Rupf, Egon Schulz, Gerhard Scherfling, Manfred Drescher, conducted by Gerhard Rolf Bauer. The opera was presented at the Csokonay Theatre Debrecen in May 1967, with Jozsef"
"Affair in Havana Affair in Havana is a 1957 film noir crime film directed by László Benedek and written by Maurice Zimm. It stars Raymond Burr and John Cassavetes. The film is about a piano player who falls in love with a crippled man's wife. Mallabee is a millionaire sugar-cane grower in Cuba who blames his wife, Lorna, for an accident that has left him in a wheelchair. Lorna has been having an affair with Nick, a piano player in a Havana nightclub. Mallabee secretly is aware of this, having hired a private investigator to follow his wife. The twisted"
"into the then relatively new CinemaScope wide screen process, and, although largely shot in Paris, was made for the US Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions company and was a success at the box-office. ""Our Man in Havana"" (1959) reunited him with Graham Greene who adapted his own novel. He was contracted to direct a remake of ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" (1962) by MGM, but then Marlon Brando was cast as Fletcher Christian, and problems with the mock ""Bounty"" and the weather at the locations caused delays. Brando had insisted on creative control, and the two men argued incessantly. Reed left the production at"
"a failed and deluded insurance manager, ran for 435 performances in 1957–58; Richardson co-starred with three leading ladies in succession: Celia Johnson, Wendy Hiller and his wife. Greene's comedy was a surprise hit, running for 402 performances from June 1959. Throughout rehearsals the cast treated the love-triangle theme as one of despair, and were astonished to find themselves playing to continual laughter. During the run, Richardson worked by day on another Greene work, the film ""Our Man in Havana"". Alec Guinness, who played the main role, noted ""the object-lesson in upstaging in the last scene between Richardson and Noël Coward"","
"Cuba (film) Cuba is a 1979 film directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery, portraying the build-up to the 1958 Cuban Revolution. Connery is a British mercenary who travels to Cuba, which is on the brink of revolution with the authority of dictator Fulgencio Batista steadily collapsing. Connery encounters a former lover there (Brooke Adams), who is neglected by her Cuban husband (Chris Sarandon). The film ends with Havana falling to Fidel Castro's revolutionaries as most of Connery's employers flee the island aboard one of the last flights out. The same historical events were featured five years earlier in"
"featured in the film. The story about the difficult role of a Cuban bandleader Carlos Estrada (Desi Arnaz). His romantic vis-a-vis is a peppery dancer named Lolita Valdez (Mary Hatcher). Just before the lovers participate in a gala Havana festival, Carlos has a lot of explaining to do when Lolita catches him in the arms of another. Holiday in Havana Holiday in Havana is a 1949 American Columbia Pictures musical comedy directed by Jean Yarbrough, and starring Desi Arnaz, Mary Hatcher and Ann Doran. The film is about a Cuban hotel busboy (Arnaz) who dreams of becoming a composer. According"
"be removed from the credits. She found her Broadway failure to be a ""major disappointment"" and returned to Hollywood. That year she released two recordings, ""Love Letters from Maureen O'Hara"" and ""Maureen O'Hara Sings her Favorite Irish Songs"". She described ""Love Letters from Maureen O'Hara"", a moderate success, as an act of revenge, given that Hollywood would not let her appear in a musical. In 1959, O'Hara returned to film, starring as a secretary who is sent from London to Havana to investigate the activities of a British secret agent (Alec Guinness) in the commercially successful ""Our Man in Havana""."
"Havana"" and ""The Old Man and the Sea"" the motion picture version of Hemingway's classic, directed by John Sturges, and starring Spencer Tracy (1958). His actoral debut in Puerto Rico was in 1963, with ""Por el Amor de un Hombre"" (for the love of a man), a very popular ""telenovela"" at the time. Up to 1996, he was a leading man in ""telenovelas"" produced in Puerto Rico. Guillermo de Cun became very popular in Puerto Rico during the 1970s with hit shows such as ""Soltero y Sin Compromiso"", ""Detras de la Fachada"", ""Tres Chicas de Hoy"", and ""¿Qué traigo aquí?""."
"Club Havana Club Havana is a 1945 American drama mystery directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. It was produced and released by independent film company Producers Releasing Corporation. It has been compared to the 1933 film ""Grand Hotel"". Rosalind (Margaret Lindsay) returns to her Miami home following a divorce to see her boyfriend Johnny Norton (Don Douglas). They visit nightclub Club Havana, where Johnny tells Rosalind that he has fallen in love with another woman. Saddened, Rosalind tries to kill herself, but Bill Porter (Tom Neal) prevents her from doing so. Meanwhile, Jimmy (Eric Sinclair) has discovered that Joe Reed (Marc"
"Moonlight in Havana Moonlight in Havana is a 1942 American film romantic comedy directed by Anthony Mann and featuring Allan Jones, Jane Frazee and Marjorie Lord. This was Mann's second film as director. Choreography by Lester Horton. Baseball star Johnny ""Whizzer"" Norton has been suspended by manager Eddie Daniels and the New York Blue Sox for his incorrigible behavior. When nightclub owner Barney Crane happens to hear Johnny singing, he offers him a job in the club where Gloria Jackson is currently the star performer. Johnny's not interested until he hears Crane wants to take the whole troupe to Havana,"
"Francis Ford Coppola's ""The Godfather Part II"" and would be covered again by Sydney Pollack in his 1990 film ""Havana"", starring Robert Redford. Lester's film was perhaps the most stylish of the three, aided by its stirring Spanish locations, ""with a marvelous sense of atmosphere"". The film's sense of historical accuracy is marred by the opening scene which shows an airliner landing in Havana with the wrong date (""1959"") superimposed on the screen. It should read ""1958"", the last year of the revolution. Cuban President Batista fled the capital on New Year's Day 1959, one week before Fidel Castro and"
"It is the only film where Ninon Sevilla shows partial nudity. Yambaó Yambaó (also known as Cry of the Bewitched) is a 1957 Mexican-Cuban drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and starring Ninón Sevilla. The story takes place in Cuba in 1850, in the era of the Atlantic slave trade. In a sugar cane plantation, Captain Jorge (Ramón Gay) and his wife, Beatriz (Rosa Elena Durgel) live happily: are expecting a child, and their slaves live quiet and at peace with them. But one night, as the full moon appears, the sound of drums rises in the air. Yambao"
"Honeymoon (1959 film) Honeymoon (), also shown as The Lovers of Teruel in the United States, is a 1959 film by the British director-writer Michael Powell based in part on the ballet ""El Amor Brujo"" by Gregorio Martínez Sierra. The film stars Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina and Spanish ballet dancer Antonio, and features Léonide Massine. The film is something of a travelogue around Spain with dance interludes, mainly set to the repeated theme of ""The Honeymoon Song"" by Mikis Theodorakis. Performed in the film by Marino Marini and his quartet, it was subsequently recorded by many performers, including The Beatles."
"daring piece earned Coward new critical praise. He intended to star in the trilogy on Broadway but was too ill to travel. Only two of the ""Suite in Three Keys"" plays were performed in New York, with the title changed to ""Noël Coward in Two Keys"", starring Hume Cronyn. Coward won new popularity in several notable films later in his career, such as ""Around the World in 80 Days"" (1956), ""Our Man in Havana"" (1959), ""Bunny Lake Is Missing"" (1965), ""Boom!"" (1968) and ""The Italian Job"" (1969). Stage and film opportunities he turned down in the 1950s included an invitation"
"she played the title role in the play ""Filomena Marturano"" in Havana's Thalia Theater, which is considered her pivotal role in her career. In 1958 she acted opposite Errol Flynn in the movie ""The Big Boodle"". She left Cuba in 1960 with her family and lived two years in Puerto Rico where she appeared in a TV soap opera ""Yo Compro Esa Mujer"" (I'll Buy That Woman). In 1962, she came to Miami and continued performing on stage. In 1965 she appeared in ""My Son Is Not What He Appears (Mi Hijo No Es Lo Que Parece)"", at the Marti"
"$6.7 million on a $15.5 million budget. For its original song ""Beautiful Maria of My Soul"", the film received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations in Best Original Song categories. In the early 1950s, Cuban brothers and musicians Cesar (Armand Assante) and Nestor Castillo (Antonio Banderas) flee from Havana, Cuba after getting into a violent dispute with the mobster owners of a club where they performed. Eventually ending up in New York City, the brothers work at menial jobs while attempting to revive their musical careers. At a nightclub where Cesar briefly crashes the act of mambo star Tito"
"planning to do both at the same time. Oses was planning on playing the hero (a masked cop named ""El Incognito"") in these two films, with Santo appearing as his costumed sidekick, ""El Enmascarado"". Fernando Osés and Enrique Zambrano wrote the scripts for the first two movies, ""el Cerebro del Mal"" (""The Evil Brain"") and ""Hombres Infernales"" (""The Infernal Men""), both released in 1958, and directed by Joselito Rodríguez. Filming was done in Cuba, and ended just the day before Fidel Castro entered Havana and declared the victory of the revolution. Santo played a masked superhero-type sidekick to the main"
"Hello Hemingway Hello Hemingway is a 1990 Cuban drama film directed by Fernando Pérez and starring Laura de la Uz. The plot, set in Havana in 1956, near the end of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, follows a young girl whose aspirations to obtain a scholarship in America, against the odds, are paralleled with her reading of Ernest Hemingway's ""The Old Man and the Sea"". The film was selected as the Cuban entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not designated a nominee. In 1956, sixteen-year-old Larita lives with her mother and her aunt's family"
"two years of his life he appeared in three films, ""The Extraordinary Seaman"" (1969) with David Niven, ""The Reivers"" (1969) with Steve McQueen, and ""They Call Me Mister Tibbs!"" (1970) with Sidney Poitier. He died in San Juan on July 17, 1970 of a cerebral hemorrhage 2 days before his 74th birthday, and was interred at Cementerio Buxeda Memorial Park, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. Juano Hernandez Juano Hernández (July 19, 1896 – July 17, 1970) was an Afro-Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry. He made his silent debut in ""The"
"Week-End in Havana Week-End in Havana (also known as A Week-End in Havana and That Week-End in Havana) is a 1941 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang. The movie stars Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. It was the second of three pictures the two stars made together and the second Faye film to have a Latin-American theme, typical of Fox musicals of the early 1940s. Faye was pregnant during filming. When his cruise ship, the Cuban Queen, runs aground near Florida on its way to Havana, New York ocean liner magnate Walter McCracken (George Barbier) sends"
"The Big Boodle The Big Boodle is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Richard Wilson, and starring Errol Flynn, Pedro Armendáriz, Rossana Rory, and Gia Scala, set in Cuba. The movie was also known as Night in Havana. Ned Sherwood, a blackjack dealer in a Havana casino, is given some counterfeit peso bills by a woman. He confronts the woman with the fact they are counterfeit, but she denies it and leaves. That night, on his way home, two thugs attack Ned but run off when the police are summoned. Guillermo Mastegui, Chief of the Secret Section"
"Yambaó Yambaó (also known as Cry of the Bewitched) is a 1957 Mexican-Cuban drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and starring Ninón Sevilla. The story takes place in Cuba in 1850, in the era of the Atlantic slave trade. In a sugar cane plantation, Captain Jorge (Ramón Gay) and his wife, Beatriz (Rosa Elena Durgel) live happily: are expecting a child, and their slaves live quiet and at peace with them. But one night, as the full moon appears, the sound of drums rises in the air. Yambao (Ninón Sevilla), the granddaughter of a witch supposedly murdered 15 years"
"The Life of Juanita Castro The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) is an American underground film directed by Andy Warhol, filmed in March 1965. A playwright (Ronald Tavel) taunts a number of actresses into improvising a play on Fidel Castro and his family, at a time when the revolution was bringing back disquieting stories of executions and imprisonments and, particularly, virulent hatred and torture of homosexuals in Cuba. Several of the play's male characters (Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Che Guevara) are played by women. The actresses face a camera they believe is filming them, while in fact they are"
"We Shall Return We Shall Return is a 1963 American drama film directed by Philip S. Goodman, starring Cesar Romero and Anthony Ray. It follows the flight of and eventual return of Cuban refugees following the Cuban Revolution of 1959. It features a fictitious plan to overthrow Fidel Castro, which proves successful, allowing the emigres to go home. Shot predominantly on location in Florida, the film would have its world premiere there as well, on February 15, 1963. More than half a century later, ""We Shall Return"" retains the distinction of being both the only feature film written directly for"
"sung by Miss Miranda and danced by dozens of flashy girls and boys, is far and away the best."" Week-End in Havana Week-End in Havana (also known as A Week-End in Havana and That Week-End in Havana) is a 1941 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang. The movie stars Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. It was the second of three pictures the two stars made together and the second Faye film to have a Latin-American theme, typical of Fox musicals of the early 1940s. Faye was pregnant during filming. When his cruise ship, the Cuban Queen,"
"son home. The Cuban Love Song The Cuban Love Song is a 1931 American pre-Code musical film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by C. Gardner Sullivan, Bess Meredyth, John Lynch, John Colton, Gilbert Emery, Robert E. Hopkins and Paul Hervey Fox. The film stars Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Vélez, Ernest Torrence, Jimmy Durante, Karen Morley and Louise Fazenda. The film was released on December 5, 1931, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was the last of four films that the baritone Tibbett made for MGM following the introduction of sound. The film received a generally favorable critical reception, but suffered badly"
"the Casino Nacional of Havana under the direction of Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. The band made its screen debut in the film ""A La Habana me Voy"" (""Off to Havana I go""). They appeared in several other films in Mexico together with film star and rumba dancer Ninón Sevilla. Popular female singers such as Celia Cruz, Omara Portuondo (Buena Vista Social Club), Haydée Portuondo, Moraima Secada and Dominica Verges joined Anacaona during the forties and fifties. Performing as a show band that played Mambo, Cha-cha-chá and Latin Jazz, Anacaona toured through South America in 1958 and appeared on radio and"