Xavier Cugat was a popular Spanish-American bandleader. He made many appearances in Hollywood films and on television throughout the decades, from 1921.
Xavier Cugat Biography / Wiki
| Name | Xavier Cugat |
| Also Know | Francisco de AsÃs Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu, The Rumba King |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Girona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Date of Birth | 1900-01-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 90 |
| Deathday | 1990-10-27 |
Xavier Cugat Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| A Rose in the Wind | Himself | 1984-05-23 | … |
| Mighty Manhattan, New York’s Wonder City | Himself | 1949-07-30 | This film visits many of the neighborhoods and landmarks on Manhattan Island and occasionally includes a history lesson. The neighborhoods include the… |
| A Date with Judy | Himself | 1948-07-29 | Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy’s relationship w… |
| Chicago Syndicate | Benny Chico | 1955-07-01 | An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two… |
| Neptune’s Daughter | Himself | 1949-06-10 | Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O’Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the c… |
| On an Island with You | Xavier Cugat | 1948-05-03 | A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done… |
| Holiday in Mexico | Himself | 1946-08-15 | Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl… |
| Luxury Liner | Xavier Cugat | 1948-11-09 | Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he’s charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de… |
| Donatella | se stesso | 1956-10-03 | Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman’s handba… |
| Bathing Beauty | Orchestra Leader | 1944-06-27 | After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women’s college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her studen… |
| You Were Never Lovelier | Himself | 1942-11-19 | An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer…. |
| The Lash | Orchestra Leader (uncredited) | 1930-12-14 | A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans…. |
| Nunca en horas de clase | El presidente | 1978-11-03 | … |
| The Merry Widow | Orchestra Leader (uncredited) | 1926-09-27 | When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O’Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is… |
| Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas | Self – Musician (archive footage) | 2016-05-02 | A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films … |
| The Heat’s On | Xavier Cugat | 1943-12-02 | Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest productio… |
| The Eddy Duchin Story | Xavier Cugat (uncredited) | 1956-05-02 | The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s…. |
| Go West Young Man | Orchestra Leader | 1936-11-18 | Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from on… |
| The Bachelor | Himself | 1955-12-30 | Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boardin… |
| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Violinist inTango Bar Scene (uncredited) | 1921-03-06 | Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being ha… |
| Susanna and Me | Xavier Cugat | 1957-03-11 | An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who t… |
| Two Girls and a Sailor | Xavier Cugat | 1944-06-14 | A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also… |
| The Monitors | Bug for Culture | 1969-10-08 | Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel…. |
| That’s Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 | Some of MGM’S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G… |
| The Phynx | Xavier Cugat | 1970-03-06 | A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA…. |
| Week-End at the Waldorf | Orchestra Leader | 1945-10-04 | Anything can happen during a weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for … |
| Stage Door Canteen | Xavier Cugat | 1943-06-24 | A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati… |
| That’s Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1974-06-21 | Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio’s 50 year history…. |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Captain Thunder | Music | 1930-12-27 | A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.’ Captain Thunder contains some of the darndes… |
| The Lash | Original Music Composer | 1930-12-14 | A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans…. |
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