Katy Jurado and Ernest Borgnine in 1959 shortly before their wedding. (AP Photo) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Faces we see, hearts we don’t know. We can well use this popular saying to measure the hell that the brilliant Katy Jurado lived with legendary actor Ernest Borgnine while they were married between 1959 and 1963. This connection was so stormy that… She should have filed for a restraining order after the divorce. due to the threat the Oscar winner posed to his integrity.
Jurado was a Mexican actress who was triumphing in Hollywood alongside Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance (Edward Dmytryk, 1954) when she met Borgnine while he was filming the western Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954) in Mexico . It took two years of courtship before she agreed to be his girlfriend and she was in love, So she did not want to suffer another disappointment in love, as had happened in her marriage to Víctor Velázquez, the father of her two children, Víctor Hugo and Sandra, to whom she was married between 1940 and 1943.
Borgnine conquered her with gentleness, details and too much interest in her person, achieving the impossible for many men who saw in Jurado an unattainable goddess: winning her heart. Which wasn’t easy, because not only was she protective of her feelings, but she also had a strong character that scared everyone. Courting the actor was one of the most beautiful moments in the actress’s life, as she commented decades later. However, The idyll ended with the wedding. Then he met the monster behind the prince.
With Jurado, the jealous, possessive, violent and alcoholic actor transformed his charming side into an everyday neurosis that led to gender-based and domestic violence. Because she didn’t want anyone to approach her or maintain contact with other people, she became desperate when her work commitments made this impossible. He also had to work to raise his children. Therefore, The husband waited until he was alone to occasionally hit him.
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Ernest Borgnine and his then wife Katy Jurado at the premiere of the Italian film “King Of Poggioreale”. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (Keystone via Getty Images)
The number of attacks increased from fewer to more, including attempted homicides. The jury itself told Paty Chapoy that the version that Borgnine strangled her was true: “Believe it or not, but he hanged me, he killed me.” The absurd reasoning What was wrong with him was that in his dreams he saw his wife with another man. But the violence didn’t stop there, and at a film festival as prestigious as Venice, it crossed over from the private realm to the public realm.
“One of the most frightening things I experienced in my life was when it said in the newspaper that Ernest Borgnine in Rome dared to beat me. I saw him being captured and was walking along Via Veneto, but he came and told me to get in “He dragged me along and everything. But all the paparazzi were there and everything that came out,” the actress told Chapoy about the episode, which for her was an external scandal and a painful and embarrassing passage. Magazines and newspapers published pictures of the Mexican woman with blood on her face and a broken arm from her husband’s beating.
The event did not go unnoticed by Jurado’s family, especially his son Víctor Hugo, who, angry and emboldened, went in search of the actor to warn him to get out of their life or face the consequences. He threatened to kill him and wife Katy confirmed this: “But when you have a son who tells him: “Mr Borgnine, I will kill you for the way you treat my mother,” that’s where it ends.”
Her children’s favorable interference sparked a reaction from the Golden Globe winner for best supporting actress Midday (1952). She filed for divorce and additionally took out a restraining order against Borgnine so that he would not approach her for any reason, as he posed a risk due to his violent temper and penchant for alcohol.
After leaving this hell, Katy Jurado left the cameras and stages for three years. Coming to terms with what she had experienced in her marriage plunged her into a deep depression, accompanied by sadness and feelings of guilt. It was not until 1966 that he accepted a proposal to return to the cinema with him smoky, a western by George Sherman. She restarted her life with a prolific career, especially on the big screen, and shined as an actress who gets very close to the emotions of her characters. Just see her in Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973) and how she mourns the loved one dying in her arms. Is it Katy Jurado crying for the love she dreamed of and not having to trust who ended up being the executioner?
📽 A western, the song “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” and Katy Jurado acting lessons? A western, the song “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” and Katy Jurado gives an acting class. A beauty.
*Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, by the great Sam Peckinpah. pic.twitter.com/7tJhR5cH6x
— Elías Leonardo Salazar (@DonEliasSalazar) April 6, 2023
Meanwhile, at the age of 85, Ernest Borgnine was seen in the film 11’09”01-11 September as part of Sean Penn’s short film. His presence is that of a touching old man who evokes empathy but falls short There’s the man who broke Ms. Katy Jurado’s heart in the worst possible way: He fell in love with her to hurt her.
