Re-post: Prep for the coming Oscars. Guess who the model for the Oscar was.

[UTUSN]

Yes, us fringe (not full out: ) trivialists know that some big star from the Olden days said the award looked like her uncle Oscar and the rest is trivia. But that was just the name.

So in all of these succeeding years, the last several of the erstwhile prestigious ceremonies being dreary and headed to oblivion, never has been mentioned that this fellow, Mexican Emilio "El Indio" (the Indian) FERNANDEZ, was the model. He was a big deal. There are YouTubes.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Fern%C3%A1ndez

Emilio "El Indio" Fernández
(born Emilio Fernández Romo, Spanish: [eˈmiljo feɾˈnandes ˈromo];

March 26, 1904 – August 6, 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his work as director of the film María Candelaria (1944), which won the Palme d'Or award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1] As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions in Mexico and in Hollywood. ....

Model for the Oscar statuette
Fernández was the model for the Oscar statuette. According to the legend, in 1928 MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Motion Picture Academy members, was tasked with creating the Academy Award trophy. In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by his future wife, actress Dolores del Río, to Fernández. Reportedly, Fernández had to be persuaded to pose nude for what is today known as the "Oscar".[3] ....

As the years passed, the aesthetics of Indio Fernández began to be viewed as old fashioned by critics, who called his films "precious" and accused Fernandez of showing the world a false image of Mexico.[citation needed] By the mid-1950s, the films of Fernández fell into obscurity as he was supplanted by other notable Mexican film directors like Luis Buñuel. Fernández returned to his role as actor. Although he did little directing in the 1960s, he had several roles as an actor, appearing in: The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959), La bandida (1962); The Night of the Iguana (1964, directed by John Huston, where he shared credits with Richard Burton and Ava Gardner); Return of the Seven (1966); The Appaloosa (1966, with Marlon Brando), among many others. His 1967 film A Faithful Soldier of Pancho Villa was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.[4] He also acted in three films directed by Sam Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch (1969), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974).

During the last years of his life, he found it impossible to direct, and although his performances as an actor in films in Mexico and abroad continued to be numerous, they failed to restore the happiness that directing gave him. In the late 1970s he was imprisoned in Torreón after he was found guilty of the death of a farmer. He was released after 6 months probation. Lack of signatures every week, due to an accident, caused him to be imprisoned again. Those were hard times, in which he held his character and his passion for film. He was a man of 74 years, silent and taciturn, who refused to recognize the twilight of his career. Free again, he returned to his mythical house in Coyoacan, to live in solitude and sell crops from his garden to survive. ....

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[Walleye]

1. The Night of the Iguana

Is one of my favorites. Which role did he play?

[UTUSN]

2. Welcome aboard DU!1 He played "Barkeeper uncredited"

[Walleye]

3. Thank you!

I’ll look for him. I’m sure I’ll watch that film again