He's a Latin from Staten Island

Ricardo Montalban mimes playing the guitar and making love to the beautiful women who use the ferry in this soundie.

Soundies were short films, about three minutes in length. The were meant to be played on a machine called a Mills Panoram, a video jukebox that was typically to be found in bars, lounges, and similar venues. You put a dime in and got a performance from the ten on the machine. The movies would be changed weekly, and from 1940 through 1946, Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand soundies.

Various performers got their screen starts in the soundies, including Doris Day and Nat 'King' Cole. Add 20-year-old Ricardo Montalban to the list.