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To all you Trini Lopez movie
fans out there. You may want to check out a motion
picture "El Cantante" produced by and staring Jennifer
Lopez. Marc Anthony, Ms. Lopez's husband, has the role
of El Cantante (the singer). Jennifer mentions Trini
Lopez in the movie! This film was released about 3 -4months
ago in September or October. Also, there is a new motion
picture that was just released and is getting rave reviews.
The movie is titled "I'm Not There" and is the story about
Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan wrote or sang all the songs in
the movie with the exception of one song. Believe it
or not that one song is Trini's version of "If I Had a
Hammer"!! Most of the song is played near the
beginning of the movie. For your information, Bob
Dylan has said in many interviews that Trini Lopez is one of
his favorite singers! |
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
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Marriage on the Rocks was Trini's first movie.
Description:
Trini plays himself in this comedy about a three-way relationship
that went one wedding too far. The movie features Frank Sinatra, Dean
Martin, Deborah Kerr, Caesar Romero, John McGiver, Hermione Baddeley,
Tony Bill and Nancy Sinatra.
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Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966)
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Danger Grows Wild |
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The Opium Connection |
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower |
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Description:
Trini plays himself in this film made by the UN
to help bolster efforts to stop drug trafficking and abuse. Full
of stars, most of whom worked for scale to cut down costs. The
cast included E.G. Marshall as the hero of the piece, Senta
Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Hugh Griffith,
Georges Geret, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, Grace
Kelly, Jocelyn Lane, Marcello Mastroainni, Amedoe Nazzari, Jean-Claude
Pascal, Anthony Quayle, Gilbert Roland, Harold Sakata, Omar Sharif,
Barry Sullivan, Nadja Tiller, Marilú Toló, Howard Vernon and Eli
Wallach.The movie is known by
the three different names listed and two of the sleeves
are seen here. |
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
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Description:
Trini plays one of the 12 convicted felons selected for a
dangerous mission behind enemy lines in this World War II action
film from director Robert Aldrich. Lee Marvin plays a tough U.S.
Army Major who must train a violent group of criminals for
one last mission - a suicide mission. All star cast includes Telly
Savalas, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Donald Sutherland and John
Cassavetes. Trini also sings "The Bramble Bush"
in this movie.
The Dirty Dozen line up -
(Trini is second from the right.)
(Click on photo to see enlarged
version)
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The Phynx (1970)
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Description:
Trini plays himself. Designed as a satirical farce, the
story centers on a computer-generated rock group who are
ostensibly assigned to play a concert on the East side of
the Iron Curtain. Their real mission is to find and return
American popular icons who have been kidnapped by the
communists. Among the missing are former Bowery Boys Leo
Gorcey and Huntz Hall, band leaders Xaviar Cugat and Guy
Lombardo, ex-champ Joe Louis, Maureen O'Sullivan, Ed
Sullivan, Dick Clark, Ruby Keeler, Johnny "Tarzan"
Weissmuller, fried-chicken magnate Colonel Sanders, crooner
Rudee Vallee, Jay "Tonto" Silverheels. Dorothy
Lamour, flamboyant rocker James Brown, and of course, Trini. |
The Reluctant Heroes (1971)
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Description:
Trini plays Private Sam Rivera in this action film made for
television. In this war drama, things |
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are looking
quite hopeless for a besieged regiment under enemy attack.
It is their commanders knowledge of history that ultimately
saves them. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Don Marshall,
Jim Hutton, Ken Berry, Ralph Meeker.
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Antonio (1973)
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Antonio was Trini's first starring role in a movie.
Description:
This is the story of a rich Texan, (Larry Hagman) who gives his
expensive Mercedes to a poor potter (Trini
Lopez) Complications arise when the potter tries to return the car.
An interesting note is that Larry Hagman's portrayal of a rich
Texan was before he was cast as J.R. Ewing in the television
series, Dallas. |
La Bamba Party
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Description:
An all-superstar music festival hosted by Trini Lopez. Filmed live and on location in San Antonio, Texas, it
features superstars Jose Feliciano, El Chicano, Johnny Rodriguez, Liz
Torres, Laura Martinez
(Ms. U.S.A.). and many others. |
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PreMadonnas: Rebels Without a Clue
(1996)
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Description:
Trini plays himself in this story about a mother who believes being a
debutante should be the most important thing in a young woman's
life.
She makes a big fuss about it, so the daughter
refuses to go with her mother's choice, and asks out a
guy she hardly knows and who - worse for her mother - is Latino. Her
mother will try anything to prevent her from this "social
suicide." Starring Bobbie Bresee, Carrie Chambers, Dan
Cashman,
Jack Carter, Kelly Nelson, Shannon Sturges, Kenn Cooper,
Peter Anthony Elliott
Originally
titled
Social Suicide
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