On the hit CBS comedy Rob, all hell breaks loose when a white guy (Rob Schneider) gets engaged to a Latina (Claudia Bassols). While Rob is the only show of its kind on the air right now, it isn't the first TV show to tell the story of a Latino married to a non-Latino (remember I Love Lucy?). There have also been several movies that have explored the topic of interracial marriage (both comedies and dramas). Here are 7 movies and TV shows where a Latino married a non-Latino!
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Salma Hayek and Matthew Perry, playing a Mexican American photographer and a WASP-y architect spend a night together in Vegas, get pregnant and have a shotgun wedding. That’s just the beginning. Then they meet each other’s families, on one side gun-toting, snake-shooting Mexicans in big hats who decorate her house in bright colors and on the other side, super-starched blancos who never venture beyond white wine. Somehow, they make it work.
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