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After a turbulent courtship, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner get married at the home of theatrical agent Lester Sachs. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Luis Buñuel's Susana (The Devil and the Flesh), starring Rosita Quintana and Fernando Soler, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Luis Buñuel begins filming an adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, starring Dan O'Herlihy. Bunuel’s first colour film, it is produced by Oscar Dancigers. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Actor Gérard Philipe arrives in Alvaro to begin filming Yves Allégret's Les Orgueilleux (The Proud Ones) with Michele Morgan. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Luis Buñuel's Ensayo de un Crimen (The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz), starring Ernesto Alonso and Miroslava Stern is released. [MORE] [ADD} |
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Raíces (Benito Alazraki) [MORE] [ADD} |
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Luis Buñuel begins filming the Franco-Mexican co-production Evil Eden with Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel and Michel Piccoli. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor marries producer Mike Todd – who is 25 years her senior – in the village of Puerto Marquez. Guests include Eddie Fisher and his wife Debbie Reynolds, and Cantinflas. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pedro Infante, perhaps the most famous actor of Mexican cinema’s golden age dies in an airplane crash why flying to Mexico City from Yucatan at the age of 39. [MORE] [ADD] |
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23-year-old Sophia Loren marries 46-year-old producer Carlo Ponti in the Mexican border town of Juarez. Romantically, the couple were not actually present at their wedding, having delegated the power of signature to their lawyers. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences discontinues its Ariel Awards, which were founded in 1946, due to the poor state of the Mexican film industry. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Luis Buñuel's Nazarin, which tells the tale of a modest priest’s relationship with a prostitute, is released. [MUCH] [ADD] |
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– Julio Bracho’s La sombra del caudillo is completed. However, because it contains scenes depicting a massacre that led directly to the rise of the country’s ruling party, the film is never commercially released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lauren Bacall marries actor Jason Robards, a close friend of Bacall's first husband Humphrey Bogart, in Ensenada. [MORE] [ADD] |
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El angel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) (Luis Buñuel) [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), Mexico’s first film school, opens at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City (UNAM). [MORE] [ADD] |
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Simón del desierto (Simon of the Desert) (Luis Bunuel) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Tiempo de morir, Arturo Ripstein’s directorial debut, is released. The film is produced by Arturo’s father, Alfredo. [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Hora de los niños (Arturo Ripstein) [MORE] [ADD] |
