High Noon at LA’s City Council

Ysabel Jurado, center. Photo courtesy Ysabel Jurado.

In the classic 1952 Western High Noon, Katy Jurado portrays Helen Ramirez, former lover of Will Kane (Gary Cooper), the outnumbered, embattled Marshal at Hadleyville, who is being menaced by a looming shootout with a gang of gunslingers. Ramirez confronts Will’s newlywed, Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), telling the bride that she should pick up a gun and fight alongside her new husband against the villains.

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