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Viva Villa!
File:73s751.jpgoriginal Italian lobby card
Directed byJack Conway
Howard Hawks (uncredited)
William Wellman (uncredited)
Written byBen Hecht
Produced byDavid O. Selznick
StarringWallace Beery
Fay Wray
Leo Carrillo
CinematographyCharles G. Clarke
James Wong Howe
Edited byGeorge Amy
Music byHerbert Stothart
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Running time115 min.
Country United States

Viva Villa! (1934) is a movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Ben Hecht, from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The film was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman also contributed uncredited directing help.

The movie is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa, starring Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, and Fay Wray. Lee Tracy was originally cast in a supporting role but was fired after drunkenly urinating off a balcony onto the Mexican crowd below. Tracy's career never fully recovered from this incident, although he did make other films, most notably Gore Vidal's The Best Man thirty years later.

This film partially inspired the creation of the 1952 film titled Viva Zapata!, written by John Steinbeck and starring Marlon Brando.

Cast

Wallace Beery ... Pancho Villa
Leo Carrillo ... Sierra
Fay Wray ... Teresa
Donald Cook ... Don Felipe de Castillo
Stuart Erwin ... Jonny Sykes
Henry B. Walthall ... Francisco Madero
Joseph Schildkraut ... Gen. Pascal
Katherine DeMille ... Rosita Morales (as Katherine de Mille)
George E. Stone ... Emilio Chavito
Phillip Cooper ... Pancho Villa as a boy
David Durand ... Bugle boy
Frank Puglia ... Pancho Villa's father
Ralph Bushman ... Wallace Calloway (reporter) (as Francis X. Bushman Jr.)
Adrian Rosley ... Alphonso Mendoza
Henry Armetta ... Alfredo Mendosa

"Viva Villa!"

"Viva Villa!" is also a shout meant to praise Pancho Villa in times of injustice. Much like "Viva Zapata!"

Viva Villa (Cocktail)

Viva Villa is also a cocktail made of Tequila, lime juice and powdered sugar.

See also


Films directed by Howard Hawks
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