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Marlon Brando was smitten with Katy Jurado after seeing her in High Noon.

He was involved at the time with Movita Castaneda and was having a parallel relationship with Rita Moreno.

Brando told Joseph L. Mankiewicz that he was attracted to " her enigmatic eyes, black as hell, pointing at you like fiery arrows ".

They struck up a close friendship when Brando filmed Viva Zapata!

in Mexico.

Jurado recalled years later in an interview that " Marlon called me one night for a date, and I accepted.

I knew all about Movita.

I knew he had a thing for Rita Moreno.

Hell, it was just a date.

I didn't plan to marry him ".

However, their first date became the beginning of an extended affair that lasted many years and peaked at the time they worked together on One-Eyed Jacks ( 1960 ), a film directed by Brando.

The project was originally to be directed by Stanley Kubrick, but, due to irreconcilable differences with Brando, he was replaced by Brando himself.

In One-Eyed Jacks, Jurado played the role of Karl Malden's wife, and mother of the young Mexican actress Pina Pellicer.