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mogambo
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Although this word has no meaning in Spanish, it became popular thanks to the film Mogambo (John Ford, 1953) and the anecdotes it generated. In Spain he highlighted the ridiculous moralizing of Franco's censorship, which to avoid showing in the film an adultery between the characters of Clark Gable, Grace Kelly and Donald Sinden made the latter two pass in the dubbing as brothers instead of husbands. . . turning the relationship into incest. In Argentina a parody of the film was made in a radio theater, from which came the term "gorilla" to call those who then opposed the government of President Juan Domingo Perón. The origin of the word mogambo has a lot of myth, it is said to be Swahili ("Swahili"), but there is no agreement on what it means since some sources translate it as "passion", others as "park rangers", and others simply as "talk". A legend assures that it is not an African language, but a deformation of the name of the Hollywood nightclub 'Mocambo', which actually does have a Bantu origin, but came through Portuguese: mocambo is a hut or even a group of precarious dwellings that formed the kilombo ("village of freed slaves or fugitives in Brazil during the nineteenth century").

  



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