53 Facts About Katy Jurado

Maria Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado Garcia, known professionally as Katy Jurado, was a Mexican actress.

Katy Jurado acted in popular Western films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Katy Jurado was the first Latin American actress nominated for an Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress for her work in Broken Lance, and was the first to win a Golden Globe Award, for her performance in High Noon.

Maria Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado Garcia, known from early childhood as "Katy", was born on 16 January 1924, in Mexico City Mexico, the daughter of Luis Jurado Ochoa, a lawyer, and Vicenta Garcia, a singer.

Katy Jurado's mother was a singer who worked for the Mexican radio station XEW.

Katy Jurado's mother was sister of Mexican musician Belisario de Jesus Garcia, author of popular Mexican songs such as Las Cuatro Milpas.

Katy Jurado lived her first years and studied at a school run by nuns in the Guadalupe Inn neighborhood of Mexico City.

Katy Jurado wanted to study law and become a lawyer.

Katy Jurado's singular beauty drew attention since she was a teenager and she was invited to work as an actress by producers and filmmakers, among them Emilio Fernandez, who offered her a role in his first movie The Isle of Passion.

Katy Jurado signed the contract without authorization from her parents, and when they found out, they threatened to send her to a boarding school in Monterrey.

Katy Jurado's marriage was largely motivated by the desire to continue a career as an actress and to escape the yoke of her parents.

The marriage ended in 1943, shortly after Katy Jurado began her film career.

Katy Jurado debuted as an actress in the Mexican film No mataras.

Katy Jurado appeared in 16 more films over the next seven years in what film historians have named the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Katy Jurado acted with acclaimed Mexican film stars such as Pedro Infante, Sara Montiel, Pedro Armendariz and others.

Katy Jurado was on assignment when filmmaker Budd Boetticher and actor John Wayne spotted her at a bullfight.

Katy Jurado was not interested in working in American films, but accepted because the film would be shot in Mexico.

Katy Jurado had rudimentary English language skills and memorized and delivered her lines phonetically.

Katy Jurado learned to speak English for the role, studying and taking classes two hours per day for two months.

Katy Jurado played saloon owner Helen Ramirez, former love of reluctant hero Cooper's Will Kane.

Katy Jurado earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and gained notice in the American movie industry.

Katy Jurado was selected for the role despite the resistance of the studio because of her youth.

Katy Jurado was the first Latin American actress to compete for the Oscar.

In 1955, Katy Jurado filmed Trial, directed by Mark Robson, with Glenn Ford.

On set, Katy Jurado had severe friction with the film's other female star, actress Gina Lollobrigida.

In 1959, Marlon Brando, with whom Katy Jurado maintained a close friendship, invited her to participate in One-Eyed Jacks, his first film as director.

In 1961, Katy Jurado returned to Mexico and filmed La Bandida where she shared credits with Pedro Armendariz and the temperamental Mexican actress Maria Felix, with whom Katy Jurado had friction on the set.

Depressed, Katy Jurado returned to Mexico and established her residence in the city of Cuernavaca.

In 1965, Katy Jurado returned to Hollywood for the film Smoky, directed by George Sherman, starring Fess Parker.

Katy Jurado received one of her better dramatic roles in the third of the three short stories comprising the Mexican film Fe, Esperanza y Caridad.

In 1974, Katy Jurado appeared in the American film Once Upon a Scoundrel, opposite the comedian Zero Mostel.

In 1980, Katy Jurado filmed La Seduccion, directed by Arturo Ripstein, for which she was nominated for another Ariel Award for Best Actress.

Katy Jurado won her second Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress for this role.

Katy Jurado had a cameo in the film The Hi-Lo Country by Stephen Frears, who called her his "lucky charm" for his first Western.

Katy Jurado's marriage was largely motivated by the desire to continue a career as an actress and to escape the yoke of her parents.

The marriage ended in 1943, shortly after Katy Jurado began her film career.

Katy Jurado affirms that from that moment Borgnine did not stop persecuting her.

Katy Jurado declared that her five years of courtship with Borgnine were the happiest of her life, but everything got complicated when they got married due to his uncontrollable jealousy.

Katy Jurado claimed to have suffered physical violence from Borgnine during their marriage.

Early in her career in Hollywood, Katy Jurado had affairs with the filmmaker Budd Boetticher and actor Tyrone Power, but her most famous relationship is the one she had with Marlon Brando.

Brando was smitten with Katy Jurado after seeing her in High Noon.

Katy Jurado was involved at the time with Movita Castaneda, and was having a parallel relationship with Rita Moreno.

Katy Jurado had a romantic relationship with the Western novelist Louis L'Amour.

Katy Jurado claimed to have been one of the people to find the body of Mexican actress Miroslava Stern after her suicide in 1955.

Katy Jurado was filming a movie when she found out about the accident and professionally wrapped up the shoot after burying her son.

Katy Jurado claimed that it was filmmaker John Huston who rescued her from depression and convinced her to resume her career in the movie Under the Volcano.

Katy Jurado claimed that, during the filming of the film, Huston confessed to having been in love with her.

Toward the end of her life, Katy Jurado suffered from heart and lung ailments.

Katy Jurado died of kidney failure and pulmonary disease on 5 July 2002 at the age of 78 at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Katy Jurado was buried in Cuernavaca at the Panteon de la Paz cemetery.

Katy Jurado has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7065 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions to motion pictures.

In 1953, Katy Jurado was captured in a portrait by Mexican artist Diego Rivera.

Katy Jurado was honored with a Google Doodle on 16 January 2018.