At one time, Frank Sinatra wanted to pursue a relationship with Katy Jurado but she offered him to be friends instead.
First Mexican actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. The second was Salma Hayek, in 2003.
Former husband Ernest Borgnine referred to her as "beautiful, but a tiger."
Gained 22 pounds in 22 days to play the part of Annie Lightcloud in Stay Away, Joe (1968). Days before filming, she broke her foot and removed the cast prematurely, which explains her limp throughout the movie.
Katy Jurado and Maria Felix had a civil relationship.
Mexican film star and singer Jorge Negrete was her godfather at her quinceañera.
Nicknamed her husband Ernest Borgnine "Bullito", meaning "Little Bull".
Paul Kohner, (husband of Lupita Tovar), was Katy Jurado's agent.
Was discovered by film director Budd Boetticher in 1951, when he saw her sitting in a bullfight arena while he was in Mexico filming the film, Bullfighter and the Lady (1951). He cast her in a small part immediately, though she did not know a word of English.
Was very good friends with Hollywood actors, Sammy Davis Jr., Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, and Marlon Brando.
While filming Barrio De Campeones in 1981, Jurado received word that her son Victor Hugo had been killed in an auto accident in Montemorelos, Nuevo León.