Casting:

Pototo (Eduardo Ruiz de Velasco) and Boliche (Manuel Bermúdez) have inherited on condition that they produce a radio programme. For their radio show they receive Spanish stars as   Amparito Rivelles and Alfredo Mayo, but also a lot of other actors and artists as Lupe Sino, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ángel de Andrés.

Remarks

1. - The film

It is a comedy with numerous musical sequences made in a very modern conception and which shows very well the importance of the radio at the end of the forties in the life of every day for the Spaniards.  The film "Pototo, Boliche and Cy" permits also to discover a lot of stars as Eduardo Ruiz de Velasco and Manuel Bermúdez are the recurrent comic figures of a very amusing story with traditional Spanish music but also jazz with groups like «Trio calaveras" and "Cuarteto Drims". Unfortunately now it is almost impossible to see this film.

Born in Madrid (1919), he was about 15 years old when he began as accountant’s assistant in the station “Radio Madrid”. 6 years later, he was journalist in the same station which became the Spanish National Society of Radio broadcasting (SER) and he was in particular as the speaker of a show for children. He played a clown named Pototo and had for friend Manuel Bermúdez alias Boliche. And in 1948  The Spaniards with all their family discovered the two comic speakers in the cinema thanks to the film “Pototo, Boliche y Compañía", titled also in the programmes we have in our collection: "Fiesta en el aire: Pototo, Boliche y cía".

This film has been the unique cinematographic experience for Eduardo Ruiz de Velasco, who has been later and during 35 years in charge of the SER in Bilbao, town where he died in 1995. He was also mad about jazz and created jazz clubs. He wrote two books about journalistic misprints and promoted leisure activities.

2.2. - Manuel Bermúdez (The fat little man) 

As Eduardo Ruiz de Velasco he played in his first film « Pototo, Boliche y Cia » in 1948 but he has had a cinematographic career more important with about 10 roles in comedies, dramas or musical films and even a spaghetti western film, « Los cuatro salvajes/Ringo, il volto della vendetta » (1967) by Mario Caiano with Anthony Steffen.  For his last performances in front of the cameras, he played in two short films in Galician languages, "O cadaleito" (1976) and "Fendetestas" (1975) adapted from Wenceslao Fernández Flórez’s novel.  He dubbed also two cartoons.

3.- Ramón Barreiro: the director of "Pototo, Boliche y Cia" (1948)