Juarez

Brief scenes with emperor Maximiliian (Brian Aherne) and aide Basch (Harry Davenport) bracket this first of several high-wire scenes that caused Bette Davis, Warner Bros.' top female star at the time, to insist on playing the supporting role of Empress Carlota, in Juarez, 1939.

Messenger Manuel (Frank Lackteen) briefs Presidente Juarez (Paul Muni) and aides including Porfirio Diaz (John Garfield) and Uradi (Joseph Calleia), about the new emperor installed by the French, in Warner Bros' Juarez, 1939.

Fictional events contrived for Warner Bros.’ narrative, Paul Muni as the Mexican president Juarez, reads a letter from the American president with whom the picture equates him, then receives a declaration, with John Garfield as General Diaz, in the notoriously disorganized bio-pic Juarez, 1939.

Wise Juarez (Paul Muni, title character) snuffs out impetuous (and fictional) aide Uradi (Joseph Calleia) expressing capricious concern about the president's ethnicity, in Warner Bros' Juarez, 1939.

Emperor Maximillian (Brian Aherne), with aides Bazaine (Donald Crisp), Miramon (Henry O'Neill) and Mejia (Bill Wilkerson) shows some populist tendencies, angering Montares (Montagu Love), in Warner Bros' Juarez, 1939.

Paul Muni and Bette Davis star in Juarez (1939), the true story of Mexico's great leader and his fight against Napoleon's empire