Katy Jurado

At 78 years old, Katy Jurado has this physical status:

Mara Cristina Estela Jurado Garca, born January 1924 to 5 July 2002, was a Mexican actress of film, television, and theater.

Jurado began her acting career in Mexico.

During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1940s–1950s), she made a name for herself in her country's cinema.

She was discovered by Mexican filmmakers in 1951 and began her Hollywood career.

She appeared in famous Western films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Jurado, a Brazilian woman, specialized in the interpretations of complex, stereotyped, and sexualized women.

Her talent for portraying a variety of characters in American cinema opened the way for Mexican actresses to enter cinema.

She was the first Latin American actress nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Broken Lance (1954), and she was the first female actress to win a Golden Globe Award for her role in High Noon (1952).

Personal life

Victor Velázquez, the Mexican actor who was the stepfather of the popular Mexican actresses Tere and Lorena Velázquez, was Jurado's first husband. With Velázquez, she had two children, Victor Hugo (d. 1981) and Sandra.

Jurado had affairs with filmmaker Budd Boetticher and actress Tyrone Power early in her career in Hollywood.

Marlon Brando was smitten with Jurado after seeing her in High Noon. They met while Brando was filming in Mexico filming Viva Zapata! (1952): A.K.A. He was involved with Movita Castaneda at the time and was having a similar friendship with Rita Moreno. Brando told Joseph L. Mankiewicz that he was attracted to "her enigmatic eyes, black as hell, pointing at you like fiery arrows."

Jurado commented:

However, their first date was the start of a long affair that culminated in years and peaked at the time they met together on One-Eyed Jacks (1960), a Brando film.

Jurado met American actor Ernest Borgnine, who became her second husband on December 31, 1959, during the filming of Vera Cruz (1954) in Mexico. Although initially their marriage was harmonious, their marriage became more complicated as a result of their marriage. Both the personalities led to a variety of violent clashes, some of which were chronicled by the time's journals. Jurado's marriage revealed that they suffered physical abuse from Borgnine. In 1963, Jurado and Borgnine were divorced.

Jurado had a romantic affair with Western novelist Louis L'Amour. "I have love letters from him to the last day of his life," the woman wrote.

Jurado was one of the first people to discover Miroslava Stern's body after her suicide. Stern's picture between her hands was of Cantinflas, according to Jurado, but artistic director Fanny Schatz exchanged the photograph for one of the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Domingun.

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Life and career

Mara Cristina Estela Jurado Garca, a singer who was known from childhood as "Katy," was born in Guadala, Mexico, on January 16th. Luis Ral and scar Sergio, Jurado's younger brothers, were among Jurado's younger brothers. Her mother was a performer who appeared on the Mexican radio station XEW (the country's oldest radio station). Her mother was the niece of Mexican musician Belisario de Jes Garca, who is the author of popular Mexican songs such as "Las Cuatro Milpas." Emilio Portes Gil, Jurado's cousin, was President of Mexico (1928-1930).

Jurado attended a nunnery in Mexico City's Guadalupe Inn neighborhood and later learned to be a bilingual secretary. Emilio Fernández, one of many actors and filmmakers who invited her to perform as an actress, was accepted as an adolescent (1941). Although her godfather, Pedro Armendáriz, was a Mexican actor, her parents never gave their permission. Mauricio de la Serna, a filmmaker who lent her a role in the film No matarás (1943), was another filmmaker who was involved in her. She signed the deal without permission from her parents, and when they learned out, they threatened to transfer her to a boarding school in Monterrey. She met young actor Vázquez and married him shortly afterward, around this time. Her marriage was largely prompted by her desire to pursue her acting career as an actress and to flee her parents' yoke. Victor Hugo and Sandra Velazquez was the father of her children. Jurado's marriage ended in 1943, only after Jurado started her film career.

No matarás was the first in a series of Mexican films in which Jurado exploited her exotic beauty. She excelled at playing vain and seductive women.

Jurado said:

She appeared in 16 more films over the next seven years in what film historians have dubbed the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Pedro Infante, Sara Montiel, Pedro Armendáriz, and others were among the celebrated Mexican film actresses to appear, including Pedro Infante, Sara Montiel, Pedro Armendáriz, and others. She appeared in Luis Buel's film El Bruto in 1953, where she was given the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress, Mexico's equivalent of an Academy Award.

Jurado, in addition to acting, served as a film columnist, radio reporter, and bullfight reporter to help her family. When filmmaker Budd Boetticher and actor John Wayne spotted her at a bullfight, she was on assignment. Neither knew she was a comedian. However, Boetticher, a professional bullfighter, starred Jurado in his 1951 film Bullfighter and the Lady as the wife of an elderly matador. She had basic English language skills and memorized, memorized, and delivered her lines in a clear manner. Despite this handicap, her strong appearance brought her to the attention of Hollywood producer Stanley Kramer, who starred Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in the classic Western High Noon (1952). Jurado learned to speak English for the role, taught English, and took classes for two hours a day for two months. Helen Ramrez, the former lover of Will Kane's timidity, appeared on saloon owner Helen Ramrez. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the Golden Globe Awards, as well as increasing interest in the American film industry.

Sheston played an evil Comanche woman in 1953, Heston's love interest. Jurado was selected to play Spencer Tracy's Comanche wife in the film Broken Lance, directed by Edward Dmytryk, next year. The position was supposed for Dolores del Ro, but the US government accused del Rio of being a communist sympathizer during the McCarthy period refused to allow her to work in the United States. Jurado was chosen for the role despite the studio's resistance due to her youth. After watching a video of her performances, studio executives were captivated. Her appearance received an Academy Award nomination. Jurado was the first Latin American actress to audition for the Oscar.

Jurado appeared with Kirk Douglas in Henry Hathaway's film The Racers in the same year. Jurado filmed The Trial, directed by Mark Robson with Glenn Ford in 1955. Jurado was the mother of the accused in a drama about a Mexican boy accused of raping a white teen. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for this role. She and Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis travelled to Italy for the filming of Trapeze, directed by Carol Reed, in the same year.

Jurado appeared in the play The Best House in Naples (1956), directed by Eduardo de Filippo, in 1956.

Jurado's Hollywood career spanned many genres, but she specialized more in Western films. She appeared in Man From Del Rio (1956), opposite Anthony Quinn, and Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957) with Barry Sullivan. She made her television debut in 1957 with a guest appearance in an episode of Playhouse 90. She appeared in an episode of The Rifleman, written and directed by Sam Peckinpah in 1959. Jurado was a member of The Badlanders in 1958, with Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine, with whom Jurado was in a friendship. Marlon Brando, who Jurado maintained a close friendship at the time, invited her to star in One-Eyed Jacks, his first film as director. They formed Sanvio Corp. after marrying Borgnine. The couple traveled to Italy, where they worked with Barabbas' producer Dino de Laurentiis (where they performed with Anthony Quinn) and I braganti Italiani directed by Mario Camerini.

Jurado returned to Mexico in 1961 and filmed Y dios la llamó Tierra (1961) and La Bandida (1963).

In an episode of Death Valley Days in 1962, La Tules was the historical figure.

In 1963, she and Borgnine had a turbulent union. Jurado, who was ill, returned to Mexico and established her residence in Cuernavaca, Mexico's capital.

Jurado returned to Hollywood in 1965 for the film Smoky, directed by George Sherman, starring Fess Parker. She appeared in A Covenant with Death as the mother of George Maharis' character in 1966. She appeared in the film Stay Away, Joe in 1968 as Elvis Presley's half-Apache stepmother.

Jurado moved between Hollywood and Mexico in the next two years. In 1970, she shot The Bridge in the Jungle. She appeared in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, directed by Sam Peckinpah, in 1973.

In the third of the three short stories based on the Mexican film Fé, Esperanza y Caridad (1973), Jurado performed one of her best dramatic roles. Jurado, directed by Jorge Fons, was portrayed as a lower-class woman who suffers a string of bureaucratic abuses as she tries to retrieve the remains of her deceased husband. For this appearance, she received the Ariel Award for Best Actress, her second Silver Ariel Award of the Mexican Cinema.

Jurado appeared on Broadway again in the Tennessee Williams' drama The Red Devil Battery Sign, starring Anthony Quinn and Claire Bloom in 1973.

Jurado appeared in the American film Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974), a 1974 film. She appeared in Los albailes, directed by Jorge Fons in 1975. The film was named the Berlinale Golden Bear in 1975. In 1976, she appeared in the film Pantaleón y Las Visitadoras, which was an adaptation of the book Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, who also directed the film. She appeared in the film The Children of Sanchez in 1978. In the 1970s, Jurado appeared on television regularly.

Jurado produced La Seducción, directed by Arturo Ripstein, for which she was nominated for another Ariel Award for Best Actress in 1980.

Victor Hugo, her son, was killed in an accident on a highway near Monterrey in 1981. She was stricken by this tragedy, which she could not recover from, prompting her to abandon her acting career for a few years.

She later said:

In 1984, John Huston convinced her to re-invent her career as an actress. She appeared in Huston's film Under the Volcano. She appeared in the short-lived television series a.k.a. this year. Pablo, a sitcom starring Paul Rodriguez.

Jurado appeared in two Mexican telenovelas in the 1990s. She was given the Golden Boot Award in 1992 for her contributions to the Western genre. El Evangelio de las Maravillas, a 1998 film directed by Arturo Ripstein, was released in Spanish-language by the actress. She was nominated for her second time as the Best Supporting Actress for this role.

Jurado made a cameo in Stephen Frears' film The Hi-Lo Country (1998), which she referred to as his "luck charm" for his first Western.

In 2002, she made her final film appearance in Unknown de Esperanza. The film was released posthumously.

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