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Mexican film star Katy Jurado has died at her home in Cuernavaca
Father Geek here with the sad news that 4 time "Entrega del Ariel" winner Katy Jurado has died at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The Ariel is Mexico's Oscar and is awarded each year by the
Premio de la Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. But Katy was not just honored in Mexico, in 1953 she took home the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Golden Globes for her performance as Gary Cooper's former lover in HIGH NOON. Then in 1955 she received an Oscar nomination for her fantastic work in Edward Dmytryk's
BROKEN LANCE. She also was honored with an Alma nomination in 1999 for HI-LO COUNTRY, and sometime during her long screen career she received a Star on Hollywood's legendary "Walk of Fame."
Here's what appeared on the Reuters wire...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican film star Katy Jurado, who also appeared in U.S. classics including "High Noon" and was the only Mexican actress to ever garner an Oscar nomination, died on Friday in the central state of Cuernavaca, family members said.
"She died when her heart stopped beating at eight in the morning," her nephew, Oscar Jurado, told Reuters.
He added that a nurse who had been caring for the actress, whose real name was Maria Cristina Jurado, found her dead in her house.
Jurado, who was 74, appeared in more than 20 Mexican films since the 1940s and earned the Mexican film industry's highest prize, the Ariel award, for her role in EL BRUTO.
The actress also filmed movies in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. In the United States in the 1950s she appeared in "High Noon" with Gary Cooper, and in "Broken Lance," for which she received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.
She was married to U.S. actor Ernest Borgnine from 1958 to 1963.
According to Mexican radio station Infored, Jurado's funeral will take place in Cuernavaca, but her remains will be taken to Mexico City so fans and Mexico's artist community can pay homage to her at the National Association of Actors headquarters. Father Geek back again, Katy was the second Mexican star whose name I ever made a mental note of. (The first was San Antonio's Pedro Gonzales Gonzales) I had seen all her American films as a kid in the 50's and had viewed BROKEN LANCE, SAN ANTONE, and HIGH NOON multible times each at SA's wonderful and huge downtown Motion Picture Palaces, The Aztec and The Majestic, sooooo her (as Leonard Maltin once described them)
Smoldering, sensual, fieryeyed Mexican goodlooks captured my attention for good even at the youthful ages of 8 and 9. Those charms were never more on display than when she shared top billing with Gina Lollobrigida, Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in Carol Reed's 1956 circus thriller TRAPEZE. Yet another of her movies that I visited time and time again on the big screen. As a San Antonio high schooler I enjoyed her in two of my most favorite westerns from those years Alan Ladd's THE BADLANDERS and Brando's uber cool ONE-EYED JACKS. Later as a film student at the University of Texas I spotted her during a Budd Boetticher retrospective in his 1951 flick, THE BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY. I introduced Harry to her charms at the same age I had first noticed her when I took him to PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID in 1978. Over the next couple of years we would see that Sam Peckinpah epic probably a dozen times at Austin Drive-ins double & triple featured with films like The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and Cross of Iron. Then in 1984 Harry's sister would meet Katy when I took them to see UNDER THE VOLCANO in Dallas during one of our post-divorce weekend visitations, we would repeat that bit of cinema excellence several times at Dallas-Fort Worth Drive-ins.
So the whole Knowles Family are fans of Katy's decades of film work both in the USA and abroad, and we'll miss her, but not the work, its right here, in our lives... forever.
To see a pretty good list of her international film credits Just Click Right Here
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Well, I have no idea who this person is, but I'll listen to some Radiohead in honor of them.
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Indio 2 writing from home in Mexico City, I'm going to try to visit her while she is lying in state here. She and Sylvia Pinal, who also just died, were my 2 favorite classic period Mexican Actresses. This was a huge double blow down here in Mexico. You geeks stateside have no real ideal how this hit us here, our country is really in mourning for the loss. To see Katy at her absolute best find a subtitled copy of "El Bruto" and watch it with no interruptions..... it rocks.
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...she was great in "High Noon" (and man was she sexy!) but I think my favorite of her roles was in "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid". Few movie moments are as touching as Slim Pickens dying by the river, (with Dylan's music playing in the background) as his wife watches on with tears but at the same time a smile. Jurado perfectly nailed that expression and in turn gave the scene all the more resonance. She was a fine actress and will surely be missed.
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Why do people have to die?
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She is no. 3, with Frankenheimer and Ted Williams.
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Jul 07, 2002 7:39:08 PM CDT
During my media class at high school, High Noon was shown and Ka
by scorpio2nd
It wasn't just that she was gorgeous, she was a damn fine actress as well, and i'll continue to be a fan of her films (i'm not sure if i've seen them all). You might not believe me but that moment, many years ago, started my passion for the cinema of old. Part of the reason i decided that media production was the university course for me was that moment. Does anyone else out there believe that they owe a debt to this wonderful women? You will not be forgotten Katy.
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I kind of thought of her as the grand lady of Westerns. Not just a pretty face, a great actress too. Rest in peace.
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Jul 09, 2002 11:52:54 AM CDT
JPX, who cares? People who love cinema. Is it cool news? Not c
by scorpio2nd
You are entitled to your opinion but it's your attitude that we are entitled to it as well that's infuriating. Never speak ill of the dead you f****** c***.
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Jul 09, 2002 1:25:21 PM CDT
Listen, JPX, Harry knows that there are some (not the majority i
by scorpio2nd
Oh, and i would consider you blabbing "who cares" over news of someones passing just a teeny bit insulting to their memory. I mean, why did you even post your comment. Do you think anyone cares that you don't care. I usually don't get angry but you have pissed me off today.
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"It's true, some people, including myself, watch other films outside of the fanboy arena. However, this site is designed to give news about fanboy stuff (e.g., AOTC, Minority Report, X-Men 2, etc). This is not the place to read about obscure actresses from the Fifties that 3 people in the world have heard of. I stand by my big fat 'Who cares?'" Congratulations. You've proven that you don't knwo the first thing you're talking about. AICN is not a "fanboy" site, unless one is a fanboy of movies in general. That's what this site is about: MOVIES. Not comic books and sci-fi. MOVIES, period, regardless of genre...and regardless of age. Katy Jurado was a part of cinema's golden and silver ages, and her performance in HIGH NOON was a critical element of that film's success. And HIGH NOON is a film classic, the sort of thing that people talk about at this site. That YOU don't know who she is does not give you the right to dismiss her death with a "Who cares?" In fact, all you've done is show that you have no brain and no heart, especially with your "this is supposed to be a fanboy site" excuses. That's garbage. AICN is about film, old and new. For people who love film, especially classic films, Jurado's passing IS an appropriate story to post at this site. Get over yourself.
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