Moreno Family History & Genealogy

Señor Wences The Spanish born ventriloquist Señor Wences was one of the highest paid vaudeville acts in the world. Hugely popular with American TV audiences. Señor Wences was also a top nightclub favorite. Born Wenceslao Moreno in Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca (Spain), Señor Wences began performing ventriloquism as a child. An early career in bullfighting proved unsuccessful so he took up ventriloquism and juggling professionally. Señor Wences toured Europe in the 1920s before coming to America in 1935 where he made his New York debut at the Club Chico. He became an overnight sensation on "The Milton Berle Show" and later made appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and TV specials with Jack Benny and Perry Como. In 1947 he had a stand-out cameo in the film comedy Mother Wore Tights (1947), starring Dan Dailey and Betty Grable. Among his famous vent characters were 'Johnny', ingeniously formed by one of Wences's hands and 'Pedro', a torso-less head in a box. In the middle of a routine Wences would lift the lid of the box and say "Are you alright?" to which Pedro would reply "S'alright". "S'alright" - which became a classic catchphrase. In 1986 Wences toured America with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in the musical Sugar Babies. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Comedy Hall of Fame which was inscribed "For his devotion to entertaining generations of audiences and bringing countless hours of joy and happiness to millions throughout the world." - IMDb Mini Biography By: Patrick Newley

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Rita Dolores Moreno was born in 1931 at Puerto Rico. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rita Dolores Moreno.

Teresa (Moreno) Pizania was born on January 8, 1974 to Benjamin D Gil and Carmen Cavazos Gil, and has siblings Carmen Diane Lopez, Israel Garcia, Dionicio Garcia, Dora Ann Garcia, MELISSA MICHELLE GILL, and Carmen Denise Gill. She married Antonio Pizania on May 7, 2021 in Houston, Harris County, Texas United States. She was the parent of Jocelyn Gill Vasquez, Israel J Perez, and Alexandria Gonzalez. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Teresa (Moreno) Pizania.

Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, known casually as Mario Moreno, and known professionally as Cantinflas (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993) Mario Moreno Reyes ('Cantinflas'), actor: born Mexico City 12 August 1911; married (one adopted son); died Mexico City 20 April 1993. CANTINFLAS was one of the most famous men in the world in the late 1950s. Like many another, he was famous for being famous. This wasn't his fault. He had the good luck to be in a hugely popular Academy Award-winning movie, and with his bowler hat, wing collar, incipient moustache and quizzical expression there was no one quite like him - which is reason enough for fame in the movies. He had been extraordinarily popular in his native Mexico and other Latin American countries since making his film debut in 1936; he had been a prizefighter, a comic bullfighter and a circus clown. In movies the combination of pathos and slapstick had a wide appeal. He usually made one film a year and such was his popularity that the government learnt to close the pawnshops on the day his films opened. All the same, no one predicted international fame for him until Mike Todd cast him as the valet Passepartout in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), accompanying Phineas Fogg on his travels. Todd was a flamboyant - the adjective was always used - showman, with a vivid personal way of life and several indifferent Broadway credits. In 1945 Orson Welles asked him to produce a dramatised version of the Jules Verne novel. Todd withdrew, claiming that he had no more money, but the book continued to fascinate him, and he chose it for his first venture as a movie producer. It looked a very dodgy one: he had huge ambition but no experience, and his British director, Michael Anderson, though more than capable, had not worked on a big-budget Hollywood movie. The leading man, David Niven, had once been a leading Hollywood star, but the offers had become either lean or few and far between. Todd decided to back him with an all-star cast in the minor roles, going first to Noel Coward on the assumption that, if Coward assented, everyone else would. They did: from Ronald Colman to Marlene Dietrich, from Beatrice Lillie to John Gielgud. As well as Fernandel. Fernandel had been in movies longer than Cantinflas, but it was thought that he, too, had a local appeal which wouldn't travel: but Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo (1952) changed that. Many others of his French movies were successfully exported, so that Todd begged him to play Passepartout. Fernandel declined, saying that his English wasn't good enough. Todd looked at some of Cantinflas's comic cut-ups and offered him the role. He made a great success in it - mischievous, cunning, and wholly devoted to his master. The film's success ensured Cantinflas a niche among movie immortals. Charlie Chaplin called him 'the world's greatest comedian', doubtless because he knew that Cantinflas was called 'Mexico's Charlie Chaplin'. While several Hollywood studios planned star vehicles for him, he returned to Mexico and made, among other films, Sube y Baja (1959, 'Ups and Downs'). This arrived in Britain early in 1961, supporting Carne's Les Tricheurs at one of the lesser art cinemas in London. It was an ingenuous but trying piece, with Cantinflas as a lift attendant who impersonates a famous athlete. He was himself - as he had not been in Mike Todd's film - trousers braced too high, double- jointed, an innocent, reminiscent of Harry Langdon or Harold Lloyd's early screen persona. Both he and the film went unremarked - which was not a good augury for the actor's big Hollywood film. This was Pepe (1960), produced and directed at Columbia by George Sidney, with Dan Dailey and Shirley Jones as supporting cast, plus just about everyone in cameo roles - Crosby, Chevalier, Sinatra, Greer Garson, Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak etc. Cantinflas played a Mexican ranch foreman who has adventures in Hollywood, all of them witless and cliche-ridden. Hollywood didn't give Cantinflas another chance. It really wasn't his fault. Someone should have realised at the start that his English simply wasn't up to sustaining the leading role. He continued to film in Mexico, his popularity growing with the years, and he became immensely wealthy - it was a wealth he shared with many charities and the Church.

Thomas W Moreno of New York County, New York United States was born circa 1918. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas W Moreno.

Angelina Moreno of Vega Baja, Vega Baja County, PR was born on August 10, 1914, and died at age 83 years old on March 18, 1998.

Destany N Moreno-Hall was born in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Destany N Moreno-Hall.

Olene Moreno of Paradise, Butte County, CA was born on December 11, 1914, and died at age 81 years old on December 15, 1995. Olene Moreno was buried at Paradise Cemetery in Paradise.

Frank N Moreno of San Diego, San Diego County, CA was born on October 5, 1915, and died at age 80 years old on January 2, 1996.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Maria Moreno.

Aurelio Moreno of Yabucoa, Yabucoa County, PR was born on January 8, 1903 in Ponce, Canas County, Ponce Puerto Rico, and died at age 105 years old on October 6, 2008 in Yabucoa, Juan Martín County, Yabucoa.

Mara Abigail Ruiz Moreno was born in 1986 at Managua, Nicaragua. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mara Abigail Ruiz Moreno.

Florentina Moreno was born on April 15, 1898 in Nogales, Son. Mexico. She was married to Manuel Escalante on February 14, 1912 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona United States, and they were together until Manuel's death on June 15, 1967. She had children Manuela Escalante, Maria Petra Esclante, Francisco Moreno Escalante, and Consuelo Escalante. Florentina Moreno died at age 71 years old in 1969 in Tucson, Pima County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Florentina Moreno.

Maria Sandra (Moreno) Uribe was born at La Perla Nazas Durango in Nazas, Dgo. Mexico. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Maria Sandra (Moreno) Uribe.

Tony G Moreno of Brackettville, Kinney County, TX was born on December 1, 1932, and died at age 62 years old on June 4, 1995.

Melissa M Moreno Rodriguez of West Des Moines, Polk County, IA was born on October 18, 1966, and died at age 37 years old on September 23, 2004.

Salia Moreno of TX was born circa 1956. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Salia (Garcia) Moreno.

Rita Moreno was born on December 11, 1931 in Humacao, Humacao Puerto Rico. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rita Moreno.

Erasto Armendariz Moreno was born on December 28, 1963 at El Paso, Texas to Albina M. Armendariz and Erasto Armendariz Dominguez, and has siblings Sara Armendariz Moreno and Candelario Armendariz Moreno. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Erasto Armendariz Moreno.