Jesús Bracho (1910 1976) was a Mexican
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
who designed the sets for over a hundred film productions.
[Durgnat p.173] The young brother of the film director
Julio Bracho
Julio Bracho Gavilán (17 July 1909 – 26 April 1978) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter.
Bracho was born as ninth of eleven children of Julio Bracho y Zuloaga and his wife Luz Pérez Gavilán. His sister Guadalupe Bracho Pérez- ...
, he was active during the
Golden Age of Mexican cinema
The Golden Age of Mexican cinema ( es, Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano) is a period in the history of the Cinema of Mexico between 1930 and 1969 when the Mexican film industry reached high levels of production, quality and economic success of its ...
.
Selected filmography
* ''
I'm a Real Mexican
''I'm a Real Mexican'' (Spanish: ''Soy puro mexicano'') is a 1942 Mexican comedy film, comedy thriller film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Pedro Armendariz, Janet Alcoriza and David Silva (actor), David Silva. Its plot has drawn compari ...
'' (1942)
* ''
Divorced
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'' (1943)
* ''
Cantaclaro
''Cantaclaro'' is a 1946 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring Esther Fernandez, Antonio Badú and Alberto Galán. The film is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Rómulo Gallegos. The film's sets were designed by the ar ...
'' (1946)
* ''
La mujer de todos
''La mujer de todos'' is a 1946 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring María Félix, Armando Calvo and Gloria Lynch.Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures p.555 It is an adaptation of the 1848 novel ...
'' (1946)
* ''
Salón México
''Salón México'' is a 1949 Mexican film noir directed by Emilio Fernández and co-written by Fernandez and Mauricio Magdaleno. It stars Marga López as a dance hall prostitute struggling to support her younger sister at an exclusive upscale ...
'' (1949)
* ''
The Woman of the Port'' (1949)
* ''
Immaculate
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It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, meaning that it is held to be a divinely revealed truth w ...
'' (1950)
* ''
Women Who Work'' (1953)
* ''
The Young One
''The Young One'' ( es, La joven) (released as ''White Trash'' in the United States and ''Island of Shame'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1960 English-language Mexican drama film directed and co-written by Luis Buñuel, and starring Zachary Scott ...
'' (1960)
* ''
My Mother Is Guilty
''My Mother Is Guilty'' (Spanish: ''Mi madre es culpable'') is a 1960 Mexican drama film directed by Julián Soler and starring Marga López, Carlos Baena and Domingo Soler.Riera p.59
The film's sets were designed by Jesús Bracho.
Cast
* Marga ...
'' (1960)
References
Bibliography
* Raymond Durgnat. ''Luis Bunuel''. University of California Press, 1977.
External links
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1910 births
1976 deaths
Mexican art directors
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