{"id":19196,"date":"2023-06-06T12:37:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=19196"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:37:40","slug":"cantinflas-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/cantinflas-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantinflas Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cantinflas (Mexican, 1911-1993)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, better known by his stage name Cantinflas, was a pioneer of Mexican cinema and remains one of the best-known comedians in Mexican history. Sometimes dubbed \u201cThe Charlie Chaplin of Mexico,\u201d Cantinflas frequently took on the archetype of the pelado, an impoverished peasant not unlike the \u201cbums\u201d seen in many American silent movies. He is best known in the United States for his role in Around the World in 80 Days, for which he won a Golden Globe. Cantinflas\u2019 entertaining personality is exemplified in his lighthearted portrait seen in the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cantinflas (Mexican, 1911-1993) Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, better known by his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-19196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19197,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19196\/revisions\/19197"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}