Armando del Moral

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Armando del Moral Vizcaíno (June 15, 1916 - July 22, 2009) was a

Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association officer.[1] The organization is now known as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
.

Biography

Armando del Moral Vizcaíno was born in Albacete in 1916.[2] He collaborated as a writer in the anarchist press.[3] A member of the Catalan branch of the Libertarian Youth, he was wounded in Baena during the Civil War.[4] He went on to serve as secretary for propaganda of Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista (SIA) in Barcelona.[5]

Del Moral fled Spain for Mexico in 1939 as a refugee of the Spanish Civil War.[1] He covered the fledgling Mexican film industry, before moving to the United States in 1943.[1]

Armando del Moral became the Vice President of the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association and helped to found the Golden Globe awards.

Asociación Nacional de Actores (ANDA).[1]

Del Moral also worked as a

Spanish-language publicist for several Hollywood film campaigns and releases.[1] In particular, Del Moral worked as a Spanish publicist for the 1960 George Sidney film, Pepe.[1] He also worked as an advisor on The Magnificent Seven and wrote Spanish-language publicity pieces for Walt Disney.[1] In October 1962, del Moral interviewed US singer Elvis Presley
, whose then impending travel to Mexico to do the location shoot for Paramount´s¨Fun in Acapulco" had been banned by the Mexican authorities following a series of anti-Presley incidents starting in 1957. The article, headlined "Baffled by Mexican boycott" was published in "Ësto¨, a quite popular entertainment magazine based in Mexico and for which Del Moral provided numerorus articles.

Del Moral wrote and edited the

KMEX and wrote and produced a 1950s Spanish-language soap opera, Maria Elena.[1]

Armando del Moral died of natural causes on July 21, 2009, in North Hollywood, California, at the age of 93.

Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Film journalist Armando del Moral dies". Los Angeles Times. 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  2. ISBN 8437055504
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  3. ^ Martí Boscà & Rey González 2003, p. 172.
  4. ^ Martí Boscà & Rey González 2003, p. 172–173.
  5. ^ Martí Boscà & Rey González 2003, p. 173.
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