Juanito Navarro
Juan Navarro Rubinos, better known as Juanito Navarro, was a Spanish film, theater and television actor. He died on 10 January 2011 from a cardiac arrest in Madrid at the age of 86.
Biography
He studied aeronautical engineering. He began in 1945 at the age of 21, and one of his first theater roles, among many others, was in one of the versions of Jacinto Guerrero comic musical zarzuela La blanca doble. In the early 1950s, he worked in the revue company of Madrid's Teatro La Latina, a theater with which he would become closely associated over the years, with shows such as El Trust tris tras with Luis Cuenca, Antonio Garisa, and Raquel Daina. In 1952, he joined Maestro Cabrera's revue company, performing in comic and musical plays such as Pan, amor y...postre with the star Carmen Jareño, and Lo tomas o...lo dejas with the star Amparo de Lerma.In 1958, he decided to form his own comedy company, with which he revived and premiered hits such as ¡Clavijo, búscame un hijo! by Francisco G. Loygorri, La mujer compuesta by Luis Tejedor and Alfayete, El orgullo de Albacete, by Pierre Veber, and ¡Orozco que te conozco! by Francisco G. Loygorri, which had been premiered by Francisco Martínez Soria. In 1960, he joined the revue company Ramón Clemente y Muñoz Román, which in 1959 successfully revived the anthology by maestros Francisco Alonso and Jacinto Guerrero entitled Un matraco en Nueva York. In this show, he performed for the first time with a very young comic star,Lina Morgan, who premiered it in 1958 at the Teatro Alcázar. Juanito premiered this revue throughout Spain, and Lina Morgan left to revive it with Antonio Casal and Addy Ventura in Madrid.
In 1960-1961, Juanito Navarro broke records for length of stay and box office takings in Madrid, at the Teatro Alcázar from April 10 to September 20, 1960. Four successful seasons with his Compañía de Comedias Cómicas. He premiered the following repertoire alongside the star Addy Ventura: Doña Mariquita de mi corazón, by José Muñoz Román, ¡Ya tengo papá y mamá! by Loigorri and Fernández Rica, La heroína de Alpedrete by Daniel España and López Monis, Un hombre tranquilo by Adrián Ortega, Don Manuel y la extraña reliquia by José de Juanes, Las novias by Juan García de Aizpuru and Tejedor, and Doña Inés del alma mía by José Muñoz Román. The last one he did with Maestro Cabrera was the one that celebrated its centenary at the Calderón Theater, Ellas, ellos... y el taxista! by Arena and Valls. This was performed in the provinces alongside the premiere of Los líos del Cordobés by Parada, Valls, and Cabrera, during the 1961-1962 season.