José Carlos Marrone was an Argentine

Argentina

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 actor

Actor

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 and humorist.

His beginnings were in vaudeville

Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...

 theaters and the radio; afterwards he hosted several children-oriented TV shows, such as "El Circo de Marrone" (Marrone's Circus), playing the clown character Pepitito. His recurring catchphrase was
Cheee!.

He married twice and had a daughter, "Coqui", with his first wife, Rosa. Still married, Marrone fell in love with Juanita Martínez, but they waited to get together until Rosa died. In 2001, a decade after Marrone's death, Juanita committed suicide, and her body was found with a picture of Marrone in her hands.

"Pepitito" Marrone is one of the most important humorist of the Argentine culture of the 50s and the 60s.

Filmography

• Su última pelea (1949)
• La barra de la esquina (1950)
• Buenos Aires, mi tierra querida (1951)
• Vida nocturna (1955)
• Rebelde con causa (1961)
• Cristóbal Colón en la Facultad de Medicina (1962)
• El mago de las finanzas (1962)
• La chacota (1962)
• El turista (1963)
• Alias Flequillo (1963)
• De profesión sospechosos (1966)
• La cigarra está que arde (1967), released in English as La Cigarra is on fire.
• Patapúfete (1967)
• Pimienta y Pimentón (1970), released in English as Pepper and Red Pepper
• Balada para un mochilero (1971)
• Todos los pecados del mundo (1972)
• Sujeto volador no identificado (1980)
• Una viuda descocada (1980)

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