[2] He moved to La Habana with his family and he studied in a school in Pokespaie, New Jersey.
[2] Then he worked with his parents and he played in the Cuba national football team, but he got an injury and left it.
[2] In 1936 he worked with his father Ramón on CIFESA in La Habana,[3] and they distributed films on Hispanoamerica.
[8] He began offering contracts to many Spanish stars,[9] so he hired Florián Rey, Benito Perojo, Imperio Argentina, Estrellita Castro, Miguel Ligero, Roberto Rey and Ricardo Merino, between others.
[10] He produced El barbero de Sevilla (1938) with Estrellita Castro and Roberto Rey,[11] and La gitanilla (1940).