Raul Roulien

Born: 1905-10-08

Raul Salvador Intini Pepe Roulien (7 October 1904 – 8 September 2000), known professionally as Raul Roulien, was a Brazilian actor, singer, screenwriter and film director.[1] He is widely considered the first male Brazilian star in Hollywood. He worked briefly in Hollywood in the waning days of the American movies' embrace of the "Latin lover" (a title invented for the Italian actor Rudolph Valentino), a phenomenon that encouraged the Jewish-American actor Jacob Krantz to change his name to Ricardo Cortez. Raul began recording in 1928 and grew in reputation as a theater actor and composer as well, being the greatest Brazilian heartthrob of his time. That same year, he formed the theatrical company Abigail Maia-Raul Roulien, with then wife, actress Abigail Maia, authoring a genre called "frivolity theater", which were quick shows that took place between breaks in the cinema. In 1931, at the age of 29, with his talent and good looks, he went to the United States and was signed to 20th Century Fox, where he worked between 1931 and 1934. His career spanned a total of 18 films, including Delicious (1931) and Flying Down to Rio (1933), the latter starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first dance together. In 1933 his second wife, Diva Tosca (née Tosca Izabel Querze), was hit and killed as a pedestrian on Sunset Boulevard by John Huston.[2] Description above from the Wikipedia article Raul Roulien.


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Flying Down to Rio

as Júlio Rubeiro
Released: 1933-12-22

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

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State's Attorney

as Señor Alvarado
Released: 1932-05-20

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the...

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Delicious

as Sascha
Released: 1931-12-27

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

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The World Moves On

as Carlos Girard (1825) / Henri Girard (1914)
Released: 1934-06-27

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear...

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Careless Lady

as Luis Pareda
Released: 1932-04-02

Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the...

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Piernas de Seda

as Frank Alton
Released: 1935-10-04

Piernas de Seda is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Boland. It stars Rosita Moreno,...

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There Were Thirteen

as Max Minchin
Released: 1931-12-04

This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film...

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The Painted Woman

as Jim Kikela
Released: 1932-08-20

After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton's ship. When he learns what...

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It's Great to Be Alive

as Carlos Martin
Released: 1933-07-08

An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is...

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Insure Your Wife

as uncredited
Released: 1935-03-11

This Fox Film comedy – based on a play by Argentinean writer Julio Escobar – features an...

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O Grito da Mocidade

as uncredited
Released: 1937-12-25

The lives of five young medical interns in in the emergency ward of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.

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