4Hollywood’s Bronze Screen
Hispanics and Latinos in U.S. Films
Writer, Producer, and Director for GlamorousTamale Productions
This chapter is adapted from the documentary film The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood Cinema, co-written by Nancy De Los Santos and Susan Racho.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the motion picture was a wondrous new medium, thrilling audiences across the country and taking them to places most had neither heard of nor visited. At the time, movie-making producers were mostly East Coast businessmen who discovered they could make motion pictures in the land of sunshine, the state of California. These early filmmakers were attracted to the wide range of nearby ...
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