The Proud and the Beautiful
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The Proud and the Beautiful ( , sub-title : Alvarado ) is a 1953
Franco
-Mexican co-production
drama directed by Yves Allégret
. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story
; the nomination officially went to Jean-Paul Sartre
.
1953 in film
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...
Franco
Cinema of France
The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...
-Mexican co-production
International co-production
An international co-production is a production where two or more different production companies are working together, for example in a film production...
drama directed by Yves Allégret
Yves Allégret
Yves Allégret was a French film director in the film noir genre.He is noted as having been the husband of actress Simone Signoret between the years 1944–1949.-Selected filmography:...
. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story
Academy Award for Best Story
The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Award given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1957, when it was eliminated in favor of the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, which had been introduced in 1940.-1920s:...
; the nomination officially went to Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
.
Cast
( which lets foresee the plot without unveiling it ...)- Michèle MorganMichèle MorganMichèle Morgan is a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades.- Career :Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris....
as Nellie , a beautiful French tourist , whose husband suddenly dies , leaving her without resource in a foreign squalid village . - Gérard PhilipeGérard PhilipeGérard Philipe was a prominent French actor, who had appeared in 34 films between 1944 and 1959.-Career:...
as Georges , a castaway drunkard , bubble of the local mob , formerly French M.D. - Carlos López MoctezumaCarlos López MoctezumaCarlos López Moctezuma was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in 215 films between 1938 and 1980. He starred in the film Happiness, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival....
as el doctor ( the local worn-out M.D.). - Roberto Manuel Mendoza as Don Rodrigo ( the local god-father , a typical bullying macho ).
- Michèle Cordoue as Anna ( Don Rodrigo's harsh and vulgar French wife ).
- André Toffel as Tom , French tourist stopping to die of meningitis in Alvarado .
- Arturo Soto Rangel as the local priest
- The inhabitants of Alvarado .
- Alvarado itself ( a little town on the Mexico Gulf Coast , state of Vera-Cruz , consterned by the meningitis plague on a canicular Holy Friday day . Its appalling heat , gusts of grating bells , bursts of crackers and beseting huapangoHuapangoHuapango is a corruption of the Nahuatl word huapanco that textually means on top of the wood platform according to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española . Today huapango refers to a musical style that originated in and is played throughout the La Huasteca region in Mexico...
music put everybody's nerves on edge ). - Luis BuñuelLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...
, as one of the repugnant Don Rodrigo's gun-bearers . The realistic-satirical description of the plague , along with numerous local spicy private jokes in the abundant Spanish part of the dialogue certainly owes a lot to the guest-star's presence .
External links
- Les Orgueilleux at Dvdrama
- Les Orgueilleux at Films de France