Mexican Bullfighters - Jaime Bravo, Michelito Lagravere, Carmelo Torres, Emmanuel, Jaime Bravo, Michelito Lagravere, Carmelo Torres, Emmanuel, Eloy Cavazos, Alejandro Amaya, Rafita Mirabal Eloy Cavazos, Alejandro Amaya, Rafita Mirabal (Paperback)

Chapters: Jaime Bravo, Michelito Lagravere, Carmelo Torres, Emmanuel, Eloy Cavazos, Alejandro Amaya, Rafita Mirabal, Guillermo Capetillo, Carlos Arruza, Silverio Perez. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jaime Bravo (September 8, 1932 February 2, 1970) was a Mexican matador during the 1950s and 1960s. Bravo was known for death defying style and numerous relationships with women and Hollywood starlets. Bravo was born in the infamous Tepito District of Mexico City, to Spanish parents. His way out of the ghetto was as a (trapeze artist) for a well known Mexican circus. In his early twenties he stowed away on a ship to Cuba, and then on another to Spain, where he learned his art. Bravo took his in Valencia, and was later confirmed in Madrid. During the 1950s and 1960s, Mexico was full of crossover movie stars including Antonio Aguilar, making western films, usually singing in them like a Latin version of Elvis, the scripts groomed to fit his more high-profile career. You had Gaston Santos, the rejoneador, making movies. You had wrestlers like Blue Demon, El Santo, Chanoc, Mil Mascaras and Nathaniel Leon making horror films. Then you had bullfighters like Carlos Arruza, Luis Procuna, Manuel Capetillo, and David Liceaga entering the field. Like the last group, Jaime Bravo was a bullfighter for many years, especially popular with the ladies and with the border town crowds. He had the looks and the charm, if not the talent, to make it on the screen and to some producers, that's all that mattered. Bravo played a small part in a movie called Call of a Bull, which was available through a California distributor some years ago in both English and Spanish. The film starred the late Emilio Fernandez and a cast of Americans, the main theme being about a woman w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1024041