Pedro Infante

The most beloved figure in Mexican Golden Age cinema and music, Pedro Infante's ranchera and bolero recordings from the 1940s and 1950s remain among the best-selling Mexican music catalog in history and his death in a 1957 plane crash was Mexico's most publicly mourned celebrity loss until Jenni Rivera in 2012. His films and songs continue to define the idealized masculine ideal in traditional Mexican popular culture.