The film in which Pedro Infante fell in love with Silvia Pinal on New Year's Eve

Silvia Pinal and Pedro Infante never had an off-screen romance, but one of their most acclaimed projects is El Inocente, the film in which they star a funny love story that begins in the celebration of New Year's Eve.

La Diva only came to work with Infante on less than a dozen films, among them A corner near heaven, Now I am rich and The woman I lost, but the one who took the To applause and laughter, it was El Inocente (1956), in which they play two young men who, without intending to, find themselves forced to marry because they sleep in the same bed.

The histrionics plays Mané, a well-positioned young woman. On New Year's Eve, Mané and her boyfriend have a fight, forcing her to travel alone in her car to Cuernavaca, where her parents live.

During the drive there are problems with his vehicle, until it breaks down completely on the road. There he makes an appearance Cutberto Gaudázar , played by Pedro Infante, whom his friends call Cruci , for crossword puzzle. He is a mechanic and he offers to check Mané's car, but he only sees that it is something serious and that he will not be able to repair it at that moment.

Now that it's New Year's Eve, he offers to take her back to Mexico City, since it's the closest. The young woman has nothing left but to accept and they arrive at her home.

Once Mané realizes that it is late and Cruci could be left without celebrating New Year's Eve, in addition to the fact that she would have to spend this important date alone, she decides to invite him to celebrate together, to which the mechanic agrees without expecting that everything would end with both of them being completely in love.

During their evening, they both drink so much alcohol that they end up sleeping together in the young woman's bed. The next morning, it is her parents ( Sara García and Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo ) who discover them and are outraged by her. Mané is scolded by her parents, who think that her honor can only be saved if her daughter marries the mechanic.

This decision should not affect their futures or their dreams, since they consider Cutberto a person of lower level than them, they assure that this marriage cannot last long, since they put their social position is at risk.

On the honeymoon, which is in Acapulco, Guerrero, is where everyone's bad treatment begins, which leads to funny situations, although difficult moments for the mechanic, which end being a great romance.

The success of this film was such that it ran for seven weeks at the famous Cine México. In addition, Pedro de Aguillón won the Ariel Award for Best Actor in a Picture and was adapted in 1968 in the film entitled Romeo and Juliet.

It was from this tape that rumors began of a supposed romance between Silvia Pinal and Pedro Infante, since their chemistry was so good that it was believed that the romance between Mané and Cruci had achieved< b> go beyond the screens.

It was the protagonist who had to deny since then that there was never any sentimental relationship between her and the Idol of Guamúchil, since this was one of Infante's last projects.

In her biographical book, Silvia confessed that they actually did have a very close friendship, so much so that the Sinaloan spent a lot of time with the Pinal family. They never saw each other as anything more as each was interested in someone else.

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