Jaime Bravo Arciga was a Mexican matador during the 1950s and 1960s.
19 Facts About Jaime Bravo
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Jaime Bravo was born in the infamous Tepito barrio of Mexico City, to Spanish parents.
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Jaime Bravo took his in Valencia, and was later confirmed in Madrid.
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Jaime Bravo played a small part in Un Toro Me Llama.
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Jaime Bravo took the role mostly to see how he looked on the screen.
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Jaime Bravo demonstrated what a bullfighter went through as he rose to stardom in the rings.
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Away from the bullrings, Jaime Bravo already had the reputation of a big-screen movie idol, if only because of his often-scandalous behaviour.
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Jaime Bravo is still remembered for frequently having a number of his girlfriends seated throughout the crowd at some of his bullfights, unbeknownst to one another.
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Only one month earlier, at a July 1968 corrida, Jaime Bravo had used a similar press-grabbing tactic, when he was not performing his best, and another matador's superior performance was poised to gain the next day's headlines.
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Cameras captured countless photos of Jaime Bravo being cuffed, escorted from the bullring, and locked in a jail cell.
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The next day, the newspapers' headlines boldly declared that Jaime Bravo had been jailed.
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Gossip around Jaime Bravo was further promulgated by such actions as his behavior during a 1957 Tijuana bullfight, during which he tossed flowers to Ava Gardner from the ring.
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Jaime Bravo was at the corrida with actor Gilbert Roland.
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One of the biggest scandals concerning Jaime Bravo's misadventures was related to Arabella Arbenz, daughter of Guatemala's former president Jacobo Arbenz.
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Jaime Bravo shot herself on October 5,1965, after being spurned by Bravo after a bad bullfight.
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Jaime Bravo first married actress Francesca De Scaffa in 1957.
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Jaime Bravo began looking to the film world for a career that might suit him once he retired from the bulls.
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Jaime Bravo's profile remained such that he could still draw crowds from within the Mexican interior and the US, especially with a large following in border towns such as Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, and Matamoros, and states such as California, Arizona, and Texas.
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Eloy Cavazos, a fellow matador, who was one of Jaime Bravo's proteges, was in the car, but survived.