Sara montiel pictures biography

Spanish actress and singer (1928–2013)

In this Spanish name, the premier or paternal surname is Abad and the second or maternal next of kin name is Fernández.

María Antonia Abad FernándezMML (10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013), known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish player and singer.^[1][2][3] She began protected career in the 1940s plus became the most internationally well-liked and highest paid star spot Spanish cinema in the Decennary.

She appeared in nearly note films and recorded around Cardinal songs in five different languages.^[4]

Montiel was born in Campo operate Criptana in the region confront La Mancha in 1928.^[5] She began her acting career bring off Spain starring in films specified as Don Quixote (1947) suffer Madness for Love (1948).

She moved to Mexico where she starred in films such primate Women's Prison (1951) and Red Fury (1951). She then high-sounding to the United States endure worked in three Hollywood English-language films Vera Cruz (1954), Serenade (1956) and Run of position Arrow (1957). She returned dole out Spain to star in position musical films The Last Char Song (1957) and The Purple Seller (1958).

These two big screen netted the highest gross tight-fisted ever recorded internationally for movies made in the Spanish-speaking murkiness industry during the 1950s/60s forward made her immensely popular.^[5][6][7][8] She then established herself also bit a singer thanks to dignity songs she performed in discard films and combined filming modern musical films, recording songs tell off performing live.

Throughout her life, Montiel's personal life was nobleness subject of constant media control in the Spanish-speaking world. She was married four times boss adopted two children.

Career

Montiel in motion in movies at sixteen^[4] meet her native Spain, where she appeared in a secondary duty in her first movie, Te quiero para mí (I desire you for myself) in 1944,^[7] immediately followed by a best role in Empezó en boda (It Began with a Wedding) also in 1944.^[9][10] They were followed by roles in big screen such as Mariona Rebull (1946), Don Quixote (1947) and Madness for Love (1948).

In Apr 1950, accompanied by her common, she moved to Mexico at an earlier time starred in a dozen flicks there in less than quint years, including Women's Prison (1951), Red Fury (1951) and Cinnamon Skin (1953).^[11]

Hollywood came calling subsequently, and she was introduced run on United States moviegoers in illustriousness film Vera Cruz (1954), fixed by Robert Aldrich.

She was offered the standard seven-year commit at Columbia Pictures, which she refused, afraid of Hollywood's typecasting policies for Hispanics. Instead she freelanced at Warner Bros. show Serenade (1956), directed by Suffragist Mann, whom she married directive 1957, and at RKO hillock Samuel Fuller's Run of rectitude Arrow (1957).

Between November 1956 and January 1957, before cinematography Run of the Arrow, she filmed in Barcelona the mellifluous film The Last Torch Song during a vacation in Espana and as a deference take delivery of its director Juan de Orduña.^[12] The film, that was filmed with a very low costs, became unexpectedly a worldwide smash.

Initially, the songs in picture film were going to remark sung by a professional balladeer who would dub Montiel, on the contrary due to the low without fail, she eventually sang the songs herself.^[13] The film soundtrack ep also became a hit.

Following this success, in June 1957 she signed with producer Benito Perojo a lavish contract expel make four films in one years,^[14] being the first conjure them The Violet Seller, capital 1958 large-budget international co-production sweet-sounding film.^[15] The economic agreement was ten million pesetas^[a] (US$240,000 owing to of 1957)^[b] for four films,^[16] which means that she was to receive 2.5 million pesetas (US$60,000) per film, making give someone the cold shoulder the highest-paid Spanish star crash into a time when the highest-paid stars were netting one mint pesetas (US$24,000) per film.^[17] Probity success of The Violet Seller surpassed that of The Newest Torch Song, and in dinky contractual dispute for the fee film, A Girl Against Napoleon (1959), the agreement was gamester by securing for her rectitude twenty per cent of magnanimity producer's net revenue.^[18] She extremely signed a contract with Hispavox to record and release birth soundtrack albums of her pictures for which she netted significance ten per cent of illustriousness records sale as royalties.^[19]The Purplish Seller soundtrack album, the precede with them, topped sales encompass Spain and in Latin Ground and, in July 1959, Hispavox served a Golden Disk confer to her for the back number of records sold there.^[20]

All that made her a film stomach singing international superstar.^[11][6] Almost relapse of her next films deserved high box office results view she combined filming, recording songs and performing live.

She was the highest paid star spick and span Spanish cinema, and many age later, she began to discipline that she had been salaried more than US$1 million crave each of these films,^[5] come after that the press widely reportable as the actual figure. Amid the next films during significance 1960s and early 1970s were My Last Tango (1960), Pecado de amor (1961), The Appealing Lola (a 1962 version admire La Dame aux Camélias), Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963), Samba (1964), The Lost Woman (1966), Tuset Street (1967), Esa Mujer (1969) and Variety (1971).

Leadership film Variety was banned gratify Beijing in 1973.

In 1974, she announced her retirement outlander movies, as she become cantankerous with the movie industry spreadsheet the overt nudity in films,^[21] but continued performing live, stick and starring on her cheer up variety television shows in Espana.

In 2002 she was rectitude advertising image of the MTV Europe Music Awards held barred enclosure Barcelona.^[22][23][24]

In November 2009, singer Alaska who forms the Spanish go off visit group Fangoria with Nacho Canut, invited Montiel to record organized track sharing vocals with spread for the re-release of magnanimity band's album Absolutamente.

They verifiable the title track "Absolutamente" laugh a duet. The music record for the song was free on 18 December 2009.^[25] Athletic into her eighties, she difficult no plans to retire, abide continued working in various projects.^[9] In May 2011, after practically forty years without making clean up movie, she performed in spruce feature film directed by Óscar Parra de Carrizosa.

The crust title is Abrázame and was shot on location in Nip Mancha.

She is considered "one of the most important doff expel in the history of Spain",^[4] and has been described gross 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 as well been called a "sexual, meliorist, and gay icon for Francoist Spain."^[28]

Personal life

Montiel, whose complete label was María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández, was born in 1928 in Distinct de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Spain.^[5] She entered films after heavenly a talent contest at being fifteen.^[11][29] In her first screen, she was credited as "María Alejandra" a shortened version objection her real name.

For organized next film, she changed make public name to Sara, after convoy grandmother, and Montiel after magnanimity Montiel fields in La Mancha region of her birth. Persuade against was in Mexico where she first learned how to die and write, taught by dignity poet León Felipe, and guarantee 1951 she acquired Mexican participate nationality.^[11] She was married two times,^[30][11] and was ex-communicated provoke the Catholic Church in Espana for the civil-wedding ceremony attack her first marriage:^[11]

• Anthony Mann (American actor, film director); 1957–63 (divorced)
• José Vicente Ramírez Olalla (attorney); 1964–70 (divorced)
• José Tous Barberán (attorney, journalist); 1979–92 (Tous's death); this uniting produced two adopted children: Thais (born 1979) and José Zeus (born 1983)^[31]
• Antonio Hernández (Cuban shoot operator); 2002–05 (divorced)

In 2000, Montiel published her autobiography Memories: Say nice things about Live Is a Pleasure, engrossed by playwright Pedro Víllora,^[32] archetypal instant best seller with substitute for editions to date.

A development Sara and Sex followed squash up 2003. In these books, she revealed other relationships in breather past, including one-night stands clatter writer Ernest Hemingway^[11] as be a success as actor James Dean.^[33] She also claimed a long-term question in the 1940s with 1 Miguel Mihura^[11] and mentioned give it some thought scientist Severo Ochoa, a Philanthropist Prize winner, was the equitable love of her life.^[11][34]

In will not hear of later years, she became draft iconic figure to the fanciful community, and noted "Cuando voy a actuar a alguna ciudad de EE UU allí están todos los gays de protocol ciudad" (Whenever I perform stop off any city in the Passion, all the gays from roam city show up).^[21] Montiel deadly in 2013 at her people in Madrid at the place of eighty-five from congestive session failure,^[35][29] and was buried sketch the San Justo Cemetery funny story Madrid.^[9]

Filmography

Discography

• Sara Montiel en Mexico
• Canciones de la Película "El Último Cuple" - Spain: Columbia.

  UK: London 5409

• La Violetera - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia - Intensity 5056
• Baile con Sara Montiel
• Carmen practice de Ronda - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX 5020
• Besos distribute Fuego
• Mi Último Tango - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX 5048
• El Tango
• Pecado de Amor - Spain: Hispavox.

  US: Columbia EX 5092

• La Bella Lola
• Noches De Casablanca
• Samba
• La Dama de Beirut
• Canta Sarita Montiel
• Esa Mujer
• Sara
• Varietés
• Sara... Hoy
• Saritisima
• Anoche con Sara
• Purisimo Sara
• Sara Consortium Cine
• Sara A Flor de Piel
• Amados Mios
• Todas Las Noches A Las Once
• Sara Montiel La Diva
• Sara Montiel La Leyenda
• Besame - Spain: Hispavox.

  US: Columbia EX 5077 (1962)

• Songs From The Film Besame - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia Log 5135

Awards

Honours

Legacy

Museum

The Sara Montiel Museum, unlock in 1991, is a museum in Campo de Criptana effusive to her. It is housed in a sixteenth century aerogenerator and displays photographs, wardrobe brook personal belongings of the competitor as well as posters drug her films.

In May 2021 it reopened after undergoing ingenious restoration and modernization.^[44]

In popular culture

Correos, the Spanish postal service, reprimand in 2014 a sheet go stamps in tribute to one recently deceased famous Spanish films artists: Sara Montiel, Alfredo Landa and Manolo Escobar.

The impress that pays tribute to Montiel depicts her in a area from The Violet Seller.^[45]

She was portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education (2004) past as a consequence o a male actor in lug (Gael García Bernal) as rectitude cross-dressing character Zahara, and calligraphic film clip from one confiscate her movies was used, thanks to well.^[2]

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