Katy Jurado and The Unexpected Event made her the first Mexican actress to be nominated for an Oscar

In 2003, Salma Hayek became the first Mexican to be nominated for the position Oscar In the Best Actress category. But long before her, Katie Jurado She had already achieved that distinction in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Jurado was nominated for her role in Mrs. Devereaux in 1954 A broken spear (Edward Dmytryk, 1954) A western that tells the story of revenge between brothers who want to kill each other due to their father's property dispute. Playing the Mexican mother, the father is none other than the legendary Spencer Tracy.

The Academy was impressed by Jurado's work at the time and reaffirmed that his talent in front of the camera was nothing short of exceptional in Hollywood productions. He also confirmed his mistake by excluding him from nomination in the 25th edition held in 1952. For the role of Helen Ramirez in West Peak time (Fred Zinman, 1952) Gary Cooper was nominated for the film and also won the Oscar for Best Actor. Lead actress Grace Kelly was also not considered for Best Actress.

By peak time, Katie Jurado won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1952. Winning that award is not easy. He had to take intensive English lessons to master the language, speak fluently in the film and make himself understood by his colleagues and the director on the set. He tried to polish that aspect as he experienced it in his big Hollywood debut a year ago. The Bullfighter and The Lady (Budd Boetticher, 1951), when Learned the script phonetically.

With the Golden Globe, more doors opened for him, contracts started coming in, and he appeared in the West arrow (Charles Marquis Warren, 1953) Formerly with Charlton Heston 20th Century Fox will be looking for her on an emergency basis to join the cast A broken spearThe film that took him to the Oscars.

The company was rushed due to an unexpected event. Actress Dolores Del Rio was to play Mrs. Devereaux and Gabriel Figueroa was chosen as the cinematographer to take the picture. However, amid the “witch hunts” of McCarthyism, Del Rio and Figueroa were suspected of being communist sympathizers. They were denied entry to the US at the immigration office and given a work permit to participate in the film.

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Faced with the sudden situation, 20th Century Fox had little time to choose an alternative They chose Katie Jurado without much thought. At the time there was good press due to the Golden Globe, his mastery of the English language and his perfect reading of the western genre. Joseph McDonald replaced Figueroa.

Under the circumstances, she accepted. Another strong reason he approved of his participation was his children. After her divorce from aspiring actor Victor Velázquez in 1946, Jurado took care of her two children, Victor Hugo and Sandra. Until 1951, she worked as an actress, and combined her acting career with work as a radio reporter and bullfighting reporter to earn more.

In 1954, Dolores Del Rio was a star who was paid on Hollywood's established schedule, and look what happened to participate in it. broken spear, The same was paid to his countryman.

Jurado accepted the film's challenge with the burden of honoring Dolores del Rio and keeping her name high, proving herself capable of furthering her acting career, and proving that she is a top-tier actress in Hollywood. That your family will not lack anything.

She competed for the Oscar against Eva Marie Saint, Nina Foch, John Sterling and Claire Trevor. The statue went to the saint on the waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1974).