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Cesar Romero
- Known for
- Batman: The Movie (1966), Batman (1966), Ocean's Eleven (1960), Ido zero daisakusen (1969)
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Cesar Romero is an actor best known for Batman: The Movie, Batman and Ocean's Eleven.
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- #001
Cesar Romero believed that to live well you had to dress well and that you should never wear the same outfit twice. His closets held 30 tuxedos, 200 sport coats and 500 suits.
- #002
On May 19, 1946, Cesar Romero was a guest at Tyrone Power's house and took part in an energetic but drunken game of hide-and-seek. Among the other guests was Primula Niven, the wife of actor David Niven. Thinking she was running to a dark closet, Prim opened the basement door, ran in and fell down the entire staircase, suffering injuries that later led to her death.
- #003
Cesar Romero was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one in the Motion Pictures category at 6615 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for Television at 1719 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
- #004
When Cesar Romero played the Joker in the Batman (1966) series, he refused to shave off his trademark mustache. On close inspection, the white clown makeup can be seen applied right up to the mustache he was so fond of.
- #005
Television writer Mark Evanier noted that Cesar Romero was generally readily available to appear as a guest actor on television series. Evanier apparently knew at least one crew member who prepared roles with Romero in mind as the default choice, in case a preferred guest star became available for a guest appearance on a television series.
- #006
During World War II, Cesar Romero served in the United States Coast Guard aboard the USS Cavalier as a crane operator. He did the same work as the other Coast Guardsmen and asked for no special treatment. He saw action at Saipan and Tinian and earned two bronze battle stars on the PTO (Pacific Theater of Operations) ribbon. He served as a Chief Boatswain's Mate.
- #007
Cesar Romero's maternal grandparents were the exiled Cuban Carmen and her disabled husband Manuel Mantilla. Their daughter María Mantilla — Romero's mother — is believed to have been the daughter of the Cuban poet and revolutionary hero José Martí, who wrote the poem generally used in "Guantanamera" ("Yo soy un hombre sincero…").
- #008
After a private funeral service, Cesar Romero was cremated at the Inglewood Park Cemetery mortuary. His urn was buried in the cemetery's mausoleum near LAX. He is one of a galaxy that includes Cecil B. DeMille, Edgar Bergen, Eva Gabor, Ella Fitzgerald, Sugar Ray Robinson and Ray Charles.
- #009
Cesar Romero appeared in four films with John Carradine: Clive of India (1935), Frontier Marshal (1939), Round the World in 80 Days (1956) and Broken Sabre (1965).
- #010
Cesar Romero appeared in four films with Frank Sinatra: Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Ocean's Eleven (1960), Pepe (1960) and Marriage on the Rocks (1965).
- #011
Cesar Romero is one of two Batman villains who shared roles with actors who played Batman. He, Adam West and Val Kilmer each played John "Doc" Holliday, in Frontier Marshal (1939), Colt.45 (1957), Lawman (1958) and Tombstone (1993) respectively. Christian Bale and Heath Ledger both played Bob Dylan in I'm Not There (2007).
- #012
Cesar Romero appeared in four films with Carole Landis: Dance Hall (1941), A Gentleman at Heart (1942), Orchestra Wives (1942) and Wintertime (1943).
- #013
Cesar Romero appeared in five films with Binnie Barnes: Diamond Jim (1935), Rendezvous (1935), Always Goodbye (1938), Wife, Husband and Friend (1939) and Frontier Marshal (1939).
- #014
As of 2015, Cesar Romero was the only live-action Joker who had neither been nominated for nor won an Oscar.
- #015
Cesar Romero died only eighteen days after his The Thin Man (1934) co-star Myrna Loy.
- #016
Cesar Romero died on the same day as Victor Buono, his fellow Special Guest Villain on Batman (1966), twelve years later.
- #017
Cesar Romero was good friends with Adam West and Joan Crawford. Crawford's children called him Uncle Butch.
- #018
Legendary Celtic FC captain and European Cup winner Billy McNeill was nicknamed Cesar after Cesar Romero.
- #019
George Clooney never worked directly with Cesar Romero, but Clooney appeared in remakes of two films that Romero had also been in. Romero played the Joker in Batman (1966), and Clooney played Batman in Batman & Robin (1997). Romero also appeared in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), whose remake, Ocean's Eleven (2001), starred Clooney.
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