Marc Antony Gonzales — The Newest of the Latins (1925) 🇺🇸

When you go to see Bebe Daniels in “Little Miss Bluebeard,” don’t fail to take note of the young man in whose arms Bebe is held in the first scene.

He is the newest young Latin hero to be discovered by Famous Players-Lasky and it looks as though he would: soon be following in the starward footsteps of Rudolph Valentino and Ricardo Cortez. If popularity with the people in the studio is any criterion of what audiences will like, Marc Antony Gonzales should soon have the world of motion-picture fans at his feet.

It won’t be an entirely new sensation for him because in Havana where he lived he played in pictures made by a Spanish company and became the reigning hero of the Cuban theaters. He even wrote and produced two of the pictures in which he appeared! — but these were not sold in America and the local returns were not enough to avert a financial crash.

But having had his fling at acting he would not go back to the University of Havana, where he was enrolled in the college of medicine. So he came to New York and began his career all over again, playing bits. Because he was an expert swordsman he was given a part in “Dangerous Money,” and Bebe Daniels was so delighted with his work that she has had him in all of her pictures since then. First National also have found use for him, and in one of the episodes for their forthcoming production, “One-Way Street,” he appears as Romeo opposite the blond Juliet of Anna Q. Nilsson, a small part which his past experience with Shakespearean rôles should help to make distinctive and outstanding. Marc Antony Gonzales seems to have an assured future in pictures.

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Photo by: Richard Burke

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1925