The Kneeling Goddess (Spanish: La diosa arrodillada) is a 1947 Mexican Melodrama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring María Félix, Arturo de Córdova and Rosario Granados.

Married wealthy businessman Antonio (Arturo de Córdova) has been carrying on an affair with Raquel, a model and later a cabaret singer (María Félix).

They separately decide to end it, he out of consideration for his wife Elena (Rosario Granados), Raquel because she is developing real feelings for him and is guilty about her promiscuous past, which he does not know about.

[1][2] One of the film's screenwriters, José Revueltas, was supposedly said to have been ordered by director Roberto Gavaldón to enlarge the role of Rosario Granados to make it as important as that of María Félix.

This caused one of the organizations protesting the film, the Comité Pro Dignificación del Vestuario Femenino (CPDVF, "Committee for the Dignification of Women's Clothing"), to steal the statue.

[1] The explicit nature of the film's romantic scenes also affected Félix's relationship with his then-husband, composer Agustín Lara, to the point that calaveras literarias ("skull literature", mocking short poems made in Day of the Dead) and cartoons mocked Felix and Lara's crumbling relationship referring to the film.