Commentary: How I helped TV’s ‘Perry Mason’ find the real Latinx LA
by Natalia Molina, Los Angeles Times
Apr 04, 2023
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — I grew up in a Spanish-speaking home in Echo Park. On my mother’s one day off a week from her restaurant, we’d go to matinees at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. We rarely saw people like us on the screen, but on TV I watched “I Love Lucy”: finally, a Latino lead actor who even spoke Spanish, though it made him the butt of other characters’ jokes. I remember the season the Ricardos and Mertzes relocated to Hollywood for Ricky’s career, which made me think I’d want to go there
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