Heroes of the Alamo lobby card 1936 Julian Rivero collage color added 2012
by David Lee Guss
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Heroes of the Alamo lobby card 1936 Julian Rivero collage color added 2012
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Heroes of the Alamo" (1936) is a low budget independent production, bought by Columbia soon after its release.
Julian Rivero got one of his largest roles in a half century career in movies. The low budget, independently made production was bought by Columbia only months after its first release, which should make this original lobby card a collector's item.
Rivero is billed sixth.
Most of Julian Rivero's (1890-1976) roles in the silent era were uncredited, including his first, "The Bright Shawl" in 1923; also the first film of future gangster Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973)
In 1927 he played a gangster henchman (still uncredited) in Josef von Sternberg's "Underworld.1957).
In 1934 Rivero was uncredited (as a telegraph operator) in the Howard Hawks' directed "Viva Villa."
That same year he had his largest role as Tony the mechanic, with an Italian accent, in the Mascot serial "Burn 'Em Up Barns."
And also in 1934 he played Esteban (uncredited) in the first ever three strip Technicolor short, "La Cucaracha."
He first appears at 4:47 in a comic sequence involving overly seasoned food.
(Earlier color processes could not capture blue, so skies would photograph as white.
The orthochromatic black and white stock, in turn, could not register red.)
The color swatches of blue in "Cucaracha" are especially arresting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JIbbouQd0s
His first of several film noirs as, the man with a monkey, was in "This Gun For Hire." as a priest.
Rivero stole, his brief (uncredited) scene from Humphrey Bogart, as the barber in John Huston's "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1947).
Rivero's 50 year career in motion pictures came to an end (after 229 titles) in the 1973 TV movie of John Steinbeck's "The Red Pony."
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