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: This article is about the Mexican movie. For the district in Peru, see La Perla.

La perla ("The pearl") is a 1945 production of the Cinema of Mexico. The story is based on the novel The Pearl
, by John Steinbeck, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie.

In 1945, Emilio Fernández, who was in love with Olivia de Havilland (Gone With the Wind) thought she was the ideal actress to play the starring role of this movie. He planned to produce the film for Óscar Dancigers, the Franco-Russian head of Águila Films who had arrived in Mexico three years earlier escaping the horrors of war in Europe. Danciers prepared the production of the film with a script written by Fernández and Steinbeck, the author or the novel of the same name (The Pearl) in both Spanish and English versions.

After the success of this costly film, Dancigers, became one of the most important producers of the Cinema of Mexico and Fernández obtained international recognition. de Havilland never knew of the love of Fernández but he was able to get the government of Mexico City to change the name of the street he grew up on to Dulce Olivia ("Sweet Olivia").

Awards

Premio Ariel (1948)

Awarded

Emilio Fernández Ariel de Oro ("Golden Ariel")
Pedro Armendáriz (actor)
Juan García (supporting actor)
Gabriel Figueroa (photography)

Nominated

Gilberto González (supporting actor)
María Elena Marqués (actress)
Gloria Schoemann (editing)
Antonio Díaz Conde (score)
Emilio Fernández (screenplay)
Emilio Fernández (director)

Golden Globe 1949

Gabriel Figueroa (photography)

Venice Film Festival 1947

Emilio Fernández Golden Lion

Madrid Film Festival 1949

Gabriel Figueroa (photography)

Plot

In a fishing village, Quino (Armendáriz) and his wife Juana (Marqués) are in anguish because their little son was stung by a scorpion, the local doctor (a foreigner) refuses to treat the child and the boy is taken to a curandera. Later the doctor and his brother (Wagner), a loan shark meet Quino again, after he finds an expensive pearl and decide to steal it from him.

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