Víctor Manuel Mendoza

Virile Mexican actor In great demand as a leading man during the "golden era of Mexican films" and also featured in Hollywood and European films. According to a story that has been repeated through the years, young Victor Manuel left his native Tala, Jalisco, in order to study at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, and was supporting himself as a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman. That part of the tale is probably true, but what is told next has all the characteristics of an urban legend. On one occasion, Victor Manuel was peddling his wares to a most attentive housewife who wa more impressed by his personality than by his vacuum cleaner. The housewife was none other than actress Lina Boytler, who proceeded to refer the twenty-four year old traveling salesman to her husband Arcady Boytler, the noted Russian film producer and director. Not much is known about the initial meeting of the student with the movie technician, but it must have been quite po