
The Proud and the Beautiful
Strips Bare of Prim Morality a Side of Love That Women Won't Admit - Even to Themselves!
A melancholic, morally complex drama set amid disease and decay in a Mexican village, exploring forbidden desire and the collision between passion and social constraint.
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
Essence
Ensemble

Michèle Morgan
Nellie

Gérard Philipe
Georges

Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Don Rodrigo

Carlos López Moctezuma
Doctor

Michèle Cordoue
Anna
André Toffel
Tom

Arturo Soto Rangel
Priest

Josefina Escobedo
Bonita, Rosa's sister (uncredited)

Jaime Fernández
Bus driver (uncredited)
Chel López
Pickpocket (uncredited)
Lucrecia Muñoz
Rosa, George's lover (uncredited)

Beatriz Ramos
Brothel Madam (uncredited)
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