Raul Roulien

The Latino singer and actor Raul Roulien worked briefly in Hollywood in the waning days of the American movies' embrace of the "Latin Lover" (a title invented for the Italian actor Rudolph Valentino). This phenomenon encouraged the Jewish-American actor Jacob Krantz to change his name to Ricardo Cortez. Raul began recording in 1928 and grew in reputation as a theater actor and composer as well. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1931 and became an actor, signing with 20th Century-Fox and making his movie debut in a Spanish-language version of Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), called Eran trece (1931). (Before Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Douglas Shearer and other sound technicians at the Hollywood studios perfected dubbing, foreign language versions of films had to be shot for the export market.) He sang the Gershwin song "Delishious" for his second movie Delicious (1931), but earned more attention appearing in the first Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers cinematic pairing Flying Down to Rio (1933) as part o