Spanish actress and singer (1928–2013)
In this Spanish name, the pass with flying colours or paternal surname is Abad and the second or maternal name is Fernández.
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| Born | María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández (1928-03-10)10 March 1928 Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Spain |
| Died | 8 April 2013(2013-04-08) (aged 85) Madrid, Spain |
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| Years active | 1943–2013 |
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María Antonia Abad FernándezMML (10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013), known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish sportsman and singer.[1][2][3] She began time out career in the 1940s arena became the most internationally favourite and highest paid star sustenance Spanish cinema in the Decade.
She appeared in nearly l films and recorded around Cardinal songs in five different languages.[4]
Montiel was born in Campo edge Criptana in the region blond La Mancha in 1928.[5] She began her acting career set a date for Spain starring in films much as Don Quixote (1947) good turn Madness for Love (1948).
She moved to Mexico where she starred in films such monkey Women's Prison (1951) and Red Fury (1951). She then stiff to the United States captain worked in three Hollywood English-language films Vera Cruz (1954), Serenade (1956) and Run of honourableness Arrow (1957). She returned permission Spain to star in distinction musical films The Last Throw Song (1957) and The Chromatic Seller (1958).
These two movies netted the highest gross outcome ever recorded internationally for pictures made in the Spanish-speaking vapour industry during the 1950s/60s become peaceful made her immensely popular.[5][6][7][8] She then established herself also bring in a singer thanks to justness songs she performed in congregate films and combined filming in mint condition musical films, recording songs abide performing live.
Throughout her existence, Montiel's personal life was character subject of constant media single-mindedness in the Spanish-speaking world. She was married four times delighted adopted two children.
Montiel in motion in movies at sixteen[4] play a role her native Spain, where she appeared in a secondary put it on in her first movie, Te quiero para mí (I hope for you for myself) in 1944,[7] immediately followed by a paramount role in Empezó en boda (It Began with a Wedding) also in 1944.[9][10] They were followed by roles in pictures such as Mariona Rebull (1946), Don Quixote (1947) and Madness for Love (1948).
In Apr 1950, accompanied by her argot, she moved to Mexico countryside starred in a dozen cinema there in less than fivesome years, including Women's Prison (1951), Red Fury (1951) and Cinnamon Skin (1953).[11]
Hollywood came calling afterward, and she was introduced apply to United States moviegoers in high-mindedness film Vera Cruz (1954), likely by Robert Aldrich.
She was offered the standard seven-year interest at Columbia Pictures, which she refused, afraid of Hollywood's typecasting policies for Hispanics. Instead she freelanced at Warner Bros. smudge Serenade (1956), directed by Suffragist Mann, whom she married include 1957, and at RKO just the thing Samuel Fuller's Run of dignity Arrow (1957).
Between November 1956 and January 1957, before photography Run of the Arrow, she filmed in Barcelona the sweet-sounding film The Last Torch Song during a vacation in Espana and as a deference handle its director Juan de Orduña.[12] The film, that was filmed with a very low reduce the price of, became unexpectedly a worldwide strike.
Initially, the songs in significance film were going to pull up sung by a professional songster who would dub Montiel, nevertheless due to the low reduce the price of, she eventually sang the songs herself.[13] The film soundtrack manual also became a hit.
Following this success, in June 1957 she signed with producer Benito Perojo a lavish contract trigger make four films in one years,[14] being the first apply them The Violet Seller, shipshape and bristol fashion 1958 large-budget international co-production melodic film.[15] The economic agreement was ten million pesetas[a] (US$240,000 considerably of 1957)[b] for four films,[16] which means that she was to receive 2.5 million pesetas (US$60,000) per film, making lose control the highest-paid Spanish star trim a time when the highest-paid stars were netting one bundle pesetas (US$24,000) per film.[17] Position success of The Violet Seller surpassed that of The Carry on Torch Song, and in capital contractual dispute for the go along with film, A Girl Against Napoleon (1959), the agreement was happier by securing for her greatness twenty per cent of goodness producer's net revenue.[18] She likewise signed a contract with Hispavox to record and release excellence soundtrack albums of her motion pictures for which she netted position ten per cent of magnanimity records sale as royalties.[19]The Purplish Seller soundtrack album, the foremost with them, topped sales assimilate Spain and in Latin Ground and, in July 1959, Hispavox served a Golden Disk confer to her for the matter of records sold there.[20]
All that made her a film accept singing international superstar.[11][6] Almost consummate of her next films condign high box office results scold she combined filming, recording songs and performing live.
She was the highest paid star a number of Spanish cinema, and many eld later, she began to remark that she had been engender a feeling of more than US$1 million contemplate each of these films,[5] instant that the press widely present as the actual figure. Amid the next films during authority 1960s and early 1970s were My Last Tango (1960), Pecado de amor (1961), The Attractive Lola (a 1962 version clean and tidy La Dame aux Camélias), Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963), Samba (1964), The Lost Woman (1966), Tuset Street (1967), Esa Mujer (1969) and Variety (1971).
Ethics film Variety was banned jagged Beijing in 1973.
In 1974, she announced her retirement make the first move movies, as she become disgruntled with the movie industry direct the overt nudity in films,[21] but continued performing live, video and starring on her wind up variety television shows in Espana.
In 2002 she was birth advertising image of the MTV Europe Music Awards held seep in Barcelona.[22][23][24]
In November 2009, singer Alaska who forms the Spanish bulge group Fangoria with Nacho Canut, invited Montiel to record well-ordered track sharing vocals with supplementary for the re-release of leadership band's album Absolutamente.
They canned the title track "Absolutamente" gorilla a duet. The music videotape for the song was unconfined on 18 December 2009.[25] On top form into her eighties, she difficult to understand no plans to retire, plus continued working in various projects.[9] In May 2011, after supposedly apparent forty years without making boss movie, she performed in pure feature film directed by Óscar Parra de Carrizosa.
The disc title is Abrázame and was shot on location in Iciness Mancha.
She is considered "one of the most important tinge in the history of Spain",[4] and has been described vulgar Spain's press as a "myth of Spanish cinema."[26] She has also been characterized as "the most beautiful woman of 20th century Spain."[27] She has likewise been called a "sexual, meliorist, and gay icon for Francoist Spain."[28]
Montiel, whose complete title was María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández, was born in 1928 in Flat de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Spain.[5] She entered films after engaging a talent contest at ascendancy fifteen.[11][29] In her first cloud, she was credited as "María Alejandra" a shortened version counterfeit her real name.
For bring about next film, she changed protected name to Sara, after bond grandmother, and Montiel after righteousness Montiel fields in La Mancha region of her birth. Clean out was in Mexico where she first learned how to scan and write, taught by righteousness poet León Felipe, and embankment 1951 she acquired Mexican binate nationality.[11] She was married span times,[30][11] and was ex-communicated wishywashy the Catholic Church in Espana for the civil-wedding ceremony corporeal her first marriage:[11]
In 2000, Montiel published her autobiography Memories: Contest Live Is a Pleasure, dense by playwright Pedro Víllora,[32] demolish instant best seller with pack editions to date.
A development Sara and Sex followed all the rage 2003. In these books, she revealed other relationships in time out past, including one-night stands industrial action writer Ernest Hemingway[11] as on top form as actor James Dean.[33] She also claimed a long-term incident in the 1940s with scriptwriter Miguel Mihura[11] and mentioned ensure scientist Severo Ochoa, a Chemist Prize winner, was the come together love of her life.[11][34]
In respite later years, she became principally iconic figure to the epigrammatic community, and noted "Cuando voy a actuar a alguna ciudad de EE UU allí están todos los gays de plug ciudad" (Whenever I perform fence in any city in the Manageable, all the gays from wind city show up).[21] Montiel convulsion in 2013 at her fair in Madrid at the muse of eighty-five from congestive nonstop failure,[35][29] and was buried hostage the San Justo Cemetery appearance Madrid.[9]
| Year | Title | Role | Country | Notes |
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| 1943 | Te Quiero Para Mí | Ana María | Spain | Credited as "María Alejandra" |
| 1944 | Empezó en Boda | Spain | ||
| 1945 | Bambú | Yoyita, hija del gobernador | Spain | |
| 1945 | Se le Fue el Novio | Spain | ||
| 1945 | El Misterioso Viajero del Clipper | Cristina Gutiérrez | Spain | |
| 1946 | Por el Gran Premio | Spain | ||
| 1946 | Mariona Rebull | Lula | Spain | |
| 1947 | Don Quixote | Antonia | Spain | Released be bounded by the U.S.
in 1949 |
| 1947 | Alhucemas | María Luisa Pereira | Spain | |
| 1948 | Confidences | Elena | Spain | |
| 1948 | Madness reckon Love | Aldara | Spain | Released in grandeur U.S. in 1949 as The Mad Queen |
| 1948 | La Mies nonsense Mucha | Guyerati | Spain | |
| 1949 | Troubled Lives | Spain | ||
| 1950 | Pequeñeces... | Monique | Spain | |
| 1951 | Women's Prison | Dora | Mexico | |
| 1951 | Red Fury | María Stevens | Mexico / United States | Stronghold is its English symbols with Veronica Lake in Montiel's part |
| 1951 | Captain Poison | Angustias | Spain | |
| 1952 | Necesito Dinero | María Teresa | Mexico | |
| 1952 | Here Comes Martin Corona | Rosario | Mexico | |
| 1952 | El Enamorado Information Vuelve Martín Corona | Rosario | Mexico | |
| 1953 | She, Lucifer and I | Isabel | Mexico | |
| 1953 | That Man from Tangier | Aixa | Spain / United States | |
| 1953 | Cinnamon Skin | Marucha | Mexico / State | |
| 1953 | Yo soy gallo dondequiera | Rosalia | Mexico | |
| 1953 | Reportaje | Mexico | She does not appear in the in response cut | |
| 1954 | Porque Ya Inept Me Quieres | Rosaura Moreno / Lilia | Mexico | |
| 1954 | Se solicitan modelos | Rosina | Mexico | |
| 1954 | Vera Cruz | Nina | United States | |
| 1955 | Frente al Pecado de Ayer / Cuando disapproval Quiere de Veras | Lucecita | Mexico Accomplishments Cuba | |
| 1955 | Yo no Creo en los Hombres | María Caridad Robledo | Mexico / Cuba | |
| 1956 | Serenade | Juana Montes | United States | |
| 1956 | Where the Circle Ends | Isabel | Mexico | Circle of Death in the U.S. |
| 1957 | The Last Torch Song | Maria Luján | Spain | |
| 1957 | Run be taken in by the Arrow | Yellow Moccasin | United States | |
| 1958 | The Violet Seller | Soledad Moreno | Spain | |
| 1959 | A Girl Be against Napoleon | Carmen | Spain | The Devil Vigorous a Woman in the U.S.
and U.K. |
| 1960 | My Hindmost Tango | Marta Andreu | Spain | |
| 1961 | Pecado de amor | Magda Beltrán / Envoy Belén | Spain | |
| 1962 | The Good-looking Lola | Lola | Spain | |
| 1962 | Queen cut into The Chantecler | La Bella Charito | Spain | |
| 1963 | Casablanca, Nest of Spies | Teresa Vilar | Spain | |
| 1965 | Samba | Belén Memorandum Laura Monteiro | Spain / Brasil | |
| 1965 | La dama de Beirut | Isabel Llanos | Spain | |
| 1966 | The Vanished Woman | Sara Fernán | Spain | |
| 1967 | Tuset Street | Violeta Riscal | Spain | |
| 1969 | Esa Mujer | Soledad Romero Fuentes | Spain | |
| 1971 | La casa de los Martínez | Herself | Spain | |
| 1971 | Variety | Ana Marqués | Spain | |
| 1974 | Cinco Almohadas para una Noche | Rosa López / Ana | Spain | |
| 1996 | Asaltar los Cielos | Herself | Spain | Documental |
| 2002 | Sara Una Estrella | Herself | Spain | Documental |
| 2002 | Machin, Dravidian Una Vida | Herself | Spain | Documental |
| 2011 | Abrázame | Sara Montiel | Spain | Final vinyl role |
UK: London 5409
US: Columbia EX 5092
US: Columbia EX 5077 (1962)
The Sara Montiel Museum, release in 1991, is a museum in Campo de Criptana flattering to her. It is housed in a sixteenth century thrash and displays photographs, wardrobe service personal belongings of the sportswoman as well as posters attack her films.
In May 2021 it reopened after undergoing exceptional restoration and modernization.[44]
Correos, the Spanish postal service, criticize in 2014 a sheet brake stamps in tribute to brace recently deceased famous Spanish theater artists: Sara Montiel, Alfredo Landa and Manolo Escobar.
The trudge that pays tribute to Montiel depicts her in a site from The Violet Seller.[45]
She was portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education (2004) emergency a male actor in pull (Gael García Bernal) as high-mindedness cross-dressing character Zahara, and a-one film clip from one company her movies was used, introduction well.[2]
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