The Proud and the Beautiful

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.

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]

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.