Editing Cantinflas (section)

== Career ==
[[File:MariaTereza4.jpg|thumb|Meeting with Mexican president [[Miguel Alemán Valdés]], seated from left to right: [[Jorge Negrete]], the president Miguel Alemán Valdés, Cantinflas and {{ill|María Tereza Montoya|es}}]]
Among the things that endeared him to his public was his comic use of language in his films; his characters (all of which were really variations of the main "Cantinflas" persona but cast in different social roles and circumstances) would strike up a normal conversation and then complicate it to the point where no one understood what they were talking about. The Cantinflas character was particularly adept at obfuscating the conversation when he owed somebody money, was courting an attractive young woman, or was trying to talk his way out of trouble with authorities, whom he managed to humiliate without their even being able to tell. This manner of talking became known as ''Cantinflear'', and it became common parlance for Spanish speakers to say "''¡estás cantinfleando!''" (loosely translated as you're pulling a "Cantinflas!" or you're "Cantinflassing!") whenever someone became hard to understand in conversation. The [[Real Academia Española]] officially included the verb, ''cantinflear'', ''cantinflas'' and ''cantinflada''<ref name="DRAE">[http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?LEMA=cantinflear&TIPO_HTML=2&FORMATO=ampliado Cantinflear at the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy] Retrieved 21 January 2006</ref> in its dictionary in 1992.

In the visual arts, Mexican artists such as [[Rufino Tamayo]] and [[Diego Rivera]] painted Cantinflas as a symbol of the Mexican everyman.

Cantinflas' style and the content of his films have led scholars to conclude that he influenced the many ''teatros'' that spread the message of the [[Chicano Movement]] during the 1960s-1970s in the United States, the most important of which was [[Teatro Campesino|El Teatro Campesino]]. The ''teatro'' movement was an important part of the cultural renaissance that was the social counterpart of the political movement for the civil rights of Mexican Americans. Cantinflas' use of social themes and style is seen as a precursor to [[Chicano]] theater.<ref name="chicano teatro">D'Souza, Karen. ''Mercury News'' [http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/performing_arts/12776491.htm "Remembering Cantinflas"]</ref>

A cartoon series, the ''[[Amigo and Friends|Cantinflas Show]]'', was made in 1972 starring an animated Cantinflas. The show was targeted for children and was intended to be educational.<ref name="show">[https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808677057/info Yahoo entry on the ''Cantinflas Show''] Retrieved 24 January 2006</ref> The first animated version animated by [[Santiago Moro]] and his brother [[Jose Luis Moro]] for Televisa in the early 1970s (Cantinflas Show) which educated children by meeting such notable people as [[Chopin]], [[Louis Pasteur]], [[Albert Einstein]] and [[William Shakespeare]]'s [[Romeo and Juliet]] as well learning how important water and oil is and educational parodies of some of his famous movies like ''Su Excelencia'' [La Carta with incidental music from [[Aaron Copland]]'s ''[[El Salón México]]''] In the second version his character was known as "''Little Amigo''" and concentrated on a wide range of subjects intended to educate children, from the origin of soccer to the reasons behind the [[International Date Line]]. The second animated series animated in 1979 and dubbed in English in 1982 was a joint venture between [[Televisa]] and [[Hanna-Barbera]] and Mario Moreno voiced "Little Amigo"/Cantinflas in the Spanish version and [[Don Messick]] voiced "Little Amigo" and [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]] as the narrator in the English version. Both The Cantinflas Show and Amigos and Friends aired in the mid 1990s on [[Univision]] and Televisa re aired The Cantinflas Show in the mid 1990s.

Although Cantinflas never achieved the same success in the United States as in Mexico, he was honored with a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6438 [[Hollywood Boulevard]] on October 10, 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/cantinflas|title=Hollywood Walk of Fame – Cantinflas|website=walkoffame.com|publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160901054405/http://www.walkoffame.com/cantinflas|archive-date=1 September 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> He earned two Golden Globe nominations (winning one) for best actor and the [[Mexican Academy of Film]] Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref name="amg" /><ref name="barnes">[http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/Biography.asp?ctr=582398 Biography from Barnes & Noble] Retrieved 25 January 2006.</ref> His handprints have been imbedded onto the [[Plaza de las Estrellas|Paseo de las Luminarias]] for his work in motion pictures.

The Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" Award is handed out annually for entertainers who "represent the Latino community with the same humor and distinction as the legendary Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" and who, like Cantinflas, utilizes his power to help those most in need".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ernieg.com/bio.html|title=Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" Award |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060223053943/http://www.ernieg.com/bio.html |archive-date=23 February 2006 |access-date=29 January 2006|work=ErnieG}}</ref>

On August 12, 2018, the [[Google Doodle]] paid homage to Cantinflas on his 107th birth anniversary.<ref name="doodle">{{cite web|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/mario-moreno-cantinflas-107th-birthday/|title=Mario Moreno "Cantinflas'" 107th Birthday|date=2018-08-12|work=Google|access-date=2018-08-12}}</ref>

=== Characterizations ===
Moreno's life is the subject of the biographical film ''[[Cantinflas (film)|Cantinflas]]'' (2014, directed by Sebastian del Amo). It stars [[Óscar Jaenada]], who portrays a young Mario Moreno attempting to gain respect and make a living as an actor, and award-winning actor [[Michael Imperioli]] as [[Mike Todd]], an American film-producer struggling to film his masterpiece.
The film is centered in Moreno's personal life, and in the development of Todd's Golden Globe Award-winning 1956 film ''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]''.