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Katy Jurado was the first Latin American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Edward Dmytryk’s Broken Lance (1954). She was awarded a Golden Globe for High Noon and a special lifetime achievement award. In her lengthy career she appeared alongside such screen legends as Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Elvis Presley, Burt Lancaster, and Marlon Brando and worked with acclaimed directors Budd Boetticher, Luis Bunuel, and Sam Peckinpah.
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Katy Jurado has a soft exterior and tends to relate very personally and sympathetically to other people. However, Katy sometimes lets her emotions overpower her reasoning and logic, and consequently she is sometimes biased in her opinions. Katy Jurado is impressionable and rather gentle, or at least that is the way she appears. Her feelings are on the surface and Katy cannot hide her emotions.
Even in this classic Western primarily focused on the rivalries and grudges between a sheriff and a gunslinger, Katy Jurado, as Helen Ramírez, exudes a powerful presence throughout the film. Once a lover to both men at different times, she feels sorry for the two but knows she can do nothing to prevent their inevitable showdown since they are both driven by inexorable pride. All she can do is try to convince the sheriff’s brand new wife (of less than two hours) to lay aside her Quaker ideals of pacifism and instead stand by her man in his greatest hour of need. Tough, earthy, amorous, smart, and businesslike, Jurado’s frontier woman would fit perfectly into the world of HBO’s plain-talking, bloody western series Deadwood. This film rightly won four Oscars and four Golden Globes (including one for Katy Jurado as best supporting actress). -- Chale Nafus
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A leading lady of Mexican cinema, Katy Jurado ... found fame in Hollywood in the 1950s as a sultry supporting actress in such films as High Noon (1952) and Broken Lance (1954). Rather than abandoning her native country, however, Jurado remained a star of Mexican film as well as an esteemed character actress north and south of the border until she retired from movies in 1998. Born into a wealthy family, Jurado spent her early childhood in luxury until the family's lands were confiscated during the revolution.
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Born in 1927 into a well-to-do family, Katy Jurado was attracted by the cinema at an early age. She made her first film at 16, after getting married, which enabled her to act in films without paternal consent. In a film industry where genres ruled and which only gave character parts to actors, her "distinguished and sensuous look" (in her own words) and her Indian features (quite unusual for a Mexican film star) meant she was naturally cast as a man-eater, a popular role in Mexican films. She can be seen as "the one who gets up late" in Nosotros los pobres in which Ismael Rodriguez elegantly rolled back the limits of melodrama.
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Born into a wealthy family, Jurado spent her early childhood in luxury until the family's lands were confiscated during the revolution. Nevertheless, her domineering grandmother continued to adhere to "aristocratic ideals," including staunch disapproval of Jurado's desire to become an actress after director Emilio Fernandez discovered her at age 16. Marrying actor/writer Victor Velazquez to escape her family's control, Jurado made her movie debut in No Maturas (1943). The talented sloe-eyed beauty quickly made her mark in the Mexican movie industry, winning three Ariels (Mexico's equivalent of the Oscar), including one for Luis Buñuel's El Bruto (1952). A divorced mother of two by her twenties, Jurado worked as a radio reporter, bullfight critic, and movie columnist between acting jobs to support her family. Spotted by Budd Boetticher and John Wayne at a bullfight, Jurado was subsequently cast in her first American film while on a trip to Hollywood, Boetticher's matador drama The Bullfighter and the Lady (1951).
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