Raul Roulien

Raul Roulien

Born: October 8, 1905
Died: September 8, 2000
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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]

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Movies for Raul Roulien...

O Grito da Mocidade
Title: O Grito da Mocidade
Released: December 25, 1937
Type: Movie
The lives of five young medical interns in in the emergency ward of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
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Piernas de Seda
Title: Piernas de Seda
Character: Frank Alton
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Piernas de Seda is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Boland. It stars Rosita Moreno, Raul Roulien, and Enrique de Rosas. Rita Hayworth had a small uncredited role as a dancer.
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Insure Your Wife
Title: Insure Your Wife
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
This Fox Film comedy – based on a play by Argentinean writer Julio Escobar – features an international cast that includes actor and singer Raúl Roulien and his fiancée in both the movie and real life, actress and dancer Conchita Montenegro. The plot centers on Ricardo Randall (Roulien), who concocts a scheme to establish an insurance policy to protect men from their wives’ infidelity. The plot thickens when Ricardo’s secretary and love interest, Camelia Cornell (Montenegro), is faced with the return of Rita Martín (Maris), a former lover of Ricardo, whose husband Eduardo (Moreno) has purchased an insurance policy on her. The film features tango songs performed by Roulien, with lyrics by Spanish playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela, who also collaborated on the film’s screenplay.
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The World Moves On
Title: The World Moves On
Character: Carlos Girard (1825) / Henri Girard (1914)
Released: June 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
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Flying Down to Rio
Title: Flying Down to Rio
Character: Júlio Rubeiro
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
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It's Great to Be Alive
Title: It's Great to Be Alive
Character: Carlos Martin
Released: July 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.
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The Painted Woman
Title: The Painted Woman
Character: Jim Kikela
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton's ship. When he learns what happened he dumps her on a South Sea island.
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State's Attorney
Title: State's Attorney
Character: Señor Alvarado
Released: May 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
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Careless Lady
Title: Careless Lady
Character: Luis Pareda
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
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Delicious
Title: Delicious
Character: Sascha
Released: December 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
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There Were Thirteen
Title: There Were Thirteen
Character: Max Minchin
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.