01 · 16 · 14 Tribute to Arturo de Córdova at the UCLA Film & Television Archive Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard The UCLA Film & Television Archive, The Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program and UCLA Center for Mexican Studies present a tribute to Mexican actor Arturo de Córdova from January 10 to March 9, 2014, at the Billy Wilder Theater in Los Angeles. The Arturo de Córdova program was originally screened at the 11th FICM and now the UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a variation of the selection. The films which were shown at FICM are: - En la palma de tu mano (1950) by Roberto Gavaldón - El esqueleto de la Sra. Morales (1959) by Rogelio A. González - Casanova aventurero (1948) by Roberto Gavaldón - Frenchman’s Creek (1948) by Mitchell Leisen - El rebozo de la soledad (1952) by Roberto Gavaldón - Celos (1935) by Arcady Boytler - Cielito lindo (1936) by Roberto Gavaldón y Roberto O’Quigley - Él (1953) by Luis Buñuel - Crepúsculo (1945) by Julio Bracho - La diosa arrodillada (1947) by Roberto Gavaldón - Los peces rojos (1955) by José Antonio Nieves And the UCLA Film & Television Archive has included three films in the program: - A Medal for Benny (1945) by Irving Pichel - Hostages (1943) by Frank Tuttle - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) by Sam Wood You can check out the dates and screening times in this link: www.cinema.ucla.edu For the 11th FICM catalogue, the film critic and historian Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro wrote about Arturo de Cordova: “The film we usually associate with the figure of Arturo de Córdova is Él, which was made in 1952. However, the actor’s artistic career that we celebrate in FICM has a depth and duration with few rivals in the history of Mexican cinema. For nearly four decades, his voice, first on radio and then on the screen, his elegant figure, his dramatic intensity and his sense of irony against the pretensions of the Mexican bourgeoisie made him a dominant presence in some of the best films from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.” If you want to know more about Arturo de Cordova, you can download our catalogue and read the full text: here.
