The Proud and the Beautiful

1953 film by Yves Allégret

The Proud and the Beautiful
Les Orgueilleux

Directed by| Yves Allégret
Rafael E. Portas
Written by| Jean-Paul Sartre
(story: Typhus)
Yves Allégret
(adaptation)
Jean Aurenche
(scenario and dialogue)
Jean Clouzot
(dialogue)
Produced by| Raymond Borderie
Salvador Elizondo
Starring| Michèle Morgan
Gérard Philipe
Carlos López Moctezuma
Roberto Manuel Mendoza
Cinematography| Alex Phillips
Edited by| Claude Nicole
Music by| Paul Misraki
Distributed by| Columbia Pictures (France)

Release date

* 25 November 1953 (1953-11-25) (France)

Running time

| 103 minutes
Countries| France
Mexico
Language| French
Box office| 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

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* 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.

## References

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1. ^ "Box Office Success of Gerard Philippe films". Box Office Story.

## External links

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* The Proud and the Beautiful at IMDb
* The Proud and the Beautiful at Rotten Tomatoes
* Les Orgueilleux at Dvdrama
* Les Orgueilleux at Films de France

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Films directed by Yves Allégret

* Tobias Is an Angel (1940)
* Two Timid Souls (1943)
* Box of Dreams (1945)
* Dawn Devils (1946)
* Dédée d'Anvers (1948)
* Une si jolie petite plage (1949)
* Manèges (1950)
* Miracles Only Happen Once (1951)
* Desperate Decision (1952)
* Leathernose (1952)
* The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
* The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
* Oh No, Mam'zelle (1954)
* Oasis (1955)
* The Best Part (1956)
* Young Girls Beware (1957)
* Send a Woman When the Devil Fails (1957)
* The Daughter of Hamburg (1958)
* The Restless and the Damned (1959)
* Jack of Spades (1960)
* Konga Yo (1962)
* Germinal (1963)
* Johnny Banco (1967)

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