The Proud and the Beautiful explained

The Proud and the Beautiful Les Orgueilleux
Director:	Yves Allégret Rafael E. Portas
Producer:	Raymond Borderie Salvador Elizondo
Starring:	Michèle Morgan Gérard Philipe Carlos López Moctezuma Roberto Manuel Mendoza
Music:	Paul Misraki
Cinematography:	Alex Phillips
Editing:	Claude Nicole
Distributor:	Columbia Pictures (France)
Runtime:	103 minutes
Country:	France Mexico
Language:	French
Gross:	2,805,061 admissions (France)^[1]

The Proud and the Beautiful (French: '''Les Orgueilleux''', sub-title: Alvarado, aka The Proud Ones) is a 1953 drama film directed by Yves Allégret. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story (the nomination officially went to Jean-Paul Sartre), but lost to Dalton Trumbo (under the pseudonym Robert Rich) for The Brave One.

Cast

• Michèle Morgan as Nellie, a beautiful French tourist, whose husband suddenly dies, leaving her without resource in a foreign squalid village.
• Gérard Philipe as Georges, a castaway drunkard, bubble of the local mob, formerly French M.D.
• Carlos López Moctezuma as "el doctor", the local worn-out M.D.
• Víctor 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, a French tourist stopping to die of meningitis in Alvarado
• Arturo Soto Rangel as the local priest.
• Luis Buñuel as one of 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Box Office Success of Gerard Philippe films. Box Office Story.