 Pagani also was responsible for his input on the movie filming "Nuestra Cosa" ("Our Latin Thing" ) at the Cheetah and The Red Garder with Symphony Sid.The dance floor and bandstand of the club were recreated in "The Mambo Kings" (1992), a film starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas about the era of the mambo at the Palladium Ballroom and about Federico Pagani.Roscoe Lee Brown played the part of promoter Fernando Pérez, who would listen to what one had to offer in music, could make or break candidates, and was very serious and honest in telling them whether or not they had a chance to make it.