Editing Katy Jurado (section)

=== 1951–1968: Success in Hollywood ===
[[File:Kelly-Cooper-Jurado.jpg|thumb|right|Jurado (black dress) [[Grace Kelly]] and [[Gary Cooper]] in ''[[High Noon]]'' (1952)]]

In addition to acting, Jurado worked as a movie columnist, radio reporter, and bullfight critic to support her family.<ref name="Porter, Darwin" /> She was on assignment when filmmaker [[Budd Boetticher]] and actor [[John Wayne]] spotted her at a bullfight. Neither knew she was an actress. However, Boetticher, who was also a professional bullfighter, cast Jurado in his 1951 film ''[[Bullfighter and the Lady]]'', opposite [[Gilbert Roland]], as the wife of an aging matador. She was not interested in working in American films but accepted because the film would be shot in Mexico. She had rudimentary English language skills and memorized and delivered her lines phonetically. Despite this limitation, her strong performance brought her to the attention of Hollywood producer [[Stanley Kramer]], who cast her in the classic Western ''[[High Noon]]'' (1952), starring [[Gary Cooper]] and [[Grace Kelly]]. Jurado learned to speak English for the role, studying and taking classes two hours per day for two months. She played saloon owner Helen Ramírez, former love of reluctant hero Cooper's Will Kane. She earned a [[Golden Globe Award]] for Best Supporting Actress and gained notice in the American movie industry.<ref name="Ruiz & Sánchez Korrol">{{harvnb|Ruiz|Sánchez Korrol|2006|p=358}}</ref>

[[File:Heston-Jurado-Arrowhead.jpg|thumb|left|Jurado with [[Charlton Heston]] in ''[[Arrowhead (1953 film)|Arrowhead]]'' (1953)]]
From the success of the film, Jurado began working on numerous American films, most of them in the [[Western (genre)|Western]] genre. In 1953, she had a role in ''[[San Antone (film)|San Antone]]'', directed by [[Joseph Kane]] and opposite [[Rod Cameron (actor)|Rod Cameron]]. In the same year, she had a role in ''[[Arrowhead (1953 film)|Arrowhead]]'' with [[Charlton Heston]] and [[Jack Palance]], playing an evil [[Comanche]] woman, the love interest of Heston's character.

In 1954, actress [[Dolores del Río]] was accused of being a communist sympathizer at the height of the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]], and the U.S. government refused permission for her to work in the film ''[[Broken Lance]]'', directed by [[Edward Dmytryk]] and where she was going to interpret [[Spencer Tracy]]'s Comanche wife. Jurado was selected for the role despite the resistance of the studio because of her youth.<ref name="Ruiz & Sánchez Korrol" /> After viewing footage of her scenes, studio executives were impressed.<ref name="González Rubio 1999 pages=25–26">{{harvnb|González Rubio|García Riera|1999|pages=25–26}}</ref> Her performance garnered an [[Academy Award]] nomination. Jurado was the first Latin American actress to compete for the Oscar.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mexico.mx/en/articles/mexicans-nominated-oscar |title=''Mexico.mx: Oscar-Nominated Mexicans'' |access-date=5 May 2019 |archive-date=5 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505035355/https://www.mexico.mx/en/articles/mexicans-nominated-oscar |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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In the same year, Jurado appeared with [[Kirk Douglas]] in the [[Henry Hathaway]] film ''[[The Racers]]''. In 1955, Jurado filmed ''[[Trial (1955 film)|Trial]]'', directed by [[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]], with [[Glenn Ford]]. It was a drama about a Mexican boy accused of raping a white girl, with Jurado playing the mother of the accused. For this role, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.<ref>{{harvnb|Terán|pages=58–59}}</ref> In the same year, she traveled to Italy for the filming of ''[[Trapeze (film)|Trapeze]]'', directed by [[Carol Reed]], with [[Burt Lancaster]] and [[Tony Curtis]]. On set, Jurado had severe friction with the film's other female star, actress [[Gina Lollobrigida]].<ref name="harvnb|Muñoz Castillo|page=16"/>

Despite the fact that she always stated that acting in the theater did not please her, in 1956, Jurado debuted on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in the play ''[[Filumena Marturano|The Best House in Naples]]'' (1956), by [[Eduardo de Filippo]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/10/26/archives/premiere-tonight-for-herbert-play-best-house-in-naples-will-be-seen.html | title=Premiere Tonight for Herbert Play; 'Best House in Naples' Will Be Seen at Lyceum Before Nov. 8 Scheduled Date | first=Sam | last=Zolotow | newspaper=The New York Times | date=26 October 1956 | page=33 | accessdate=20 October 2021 }}</ref>

In 1956, she participated in the film ''[[Man from Del Rio]]'' (1956), opposite [[Anthony Quinn]], one of the few Hollywood movies to have Mexican actors as main stars.<ref name="González Rubio 1999 pages=25–26"/> Later she acted in Westerns ''[[Dragoon Wells Massacre]]'' (1957) with [[Barry Sullivan (actor)|Barry Sullivan]], and ''[[The Badlanders]]'' (1958), with [[Alan Ladd]] and [[Ernest Borgnine]]. In 1957, she debuted on television with a guest appearance in an episode of ''[[Playhouse 90]]''. In 1959, she acted for the first time under [[Sam Peckinpah]]'s direction in an episode of ''[[The Rifleman]]''. In 1962 she appeared as the historical character [[Maria Gertrudis Barceló|La Tules]] in an episode of ''[[Death Valley Days]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556648/?ref_=ttep_ep15|title=La Tules on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]|access-date=31 December 2018}}</ref>
[[File:Spencer_Tracy_Katy_jurado_broken_lance1.jpg|thumb|right|[[Spencer Tracy]] and Katy Jurado in ''[[Broken Lance]]'' (1954)]]
[[File:One-Eyed Jacks 1961 (13).jpg|thumb|Jurado (left) and Pina Pellicer being hugged by [[Karl Malden]] while they stare at [[Marlon Brando]] in ''[[One-Eyed Jacks]]'' (1961)]]

In 1959, [[Marlon Brando]], with whom Jurado maintained a close friendship, invited her to participate in ''[[One-Eyed Jacks]]'', his first film as director. After marrying Ernest Borgnine, they founded their own production company called Sanvio Corp. The couple traveled to Italy where they partnered with the producer [[Dino de Laurentiis]] in ''[[Barabbas (1961 film)|Barabbas]]'' (where both acted with Anthony Quinn) and ''I briganti Italiani'', directed by [[Mario Camerini]].

In 1961, Jurado returned to Mexico and filmed ''[[La Bandida]]'' (1963) where she shared credits with Pedro Armendáriz and the temperamental Mexican actress [[María Félix]], with whom Jurado had friction on the set.<ref name="Katy Jurado became an enemy of María Félix, in Milenio (In Spanish).">{{cite web |title=Katy Jurado became an enemy of María Félix |date=19 January 2023 |url=https://www.milenio.com/espectaculos/famosos/asi-katy-jurado-humillo-a-maria-felix-enemigas |access-date=21 April 2023}}</ref> Her stormy marriage with Borgnine ended in 1963. Depressed, Jurado returned to Mexico and established her residence in the city of Cuernavaca; however, she decided to alternate her work with films between Mexico and the United States.
In 1965, Jurado returned to Hollywood for the film ''[[Smoky (1966 film)|Smoky]]'', directed by [[George Sherman]], starring [[Fess Parker]]. In 1966, she played the mother of [[George Maharis]]'s character in ''[[A Covenant with Death]]''. In 1968, she appeared in the film ''[[Stay Away, Joe]]'' in the role of the half-[[Apache]] stepmother of [[Elvis Presley]]'s character.<ref name="Ruiz & Sánchez Korrol" />