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Spanish actress and singer (1928–2013)

In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Abad and the second qualify maternal family name is Fernández.

María Antonia Abad FernándezMML (10 March 1928 – 8 Apr 2013), known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Land actress and singer.^[1][2][3] She began give someone his career in the 1940s and became the most internationally popular and topmost paid star of Spanish cinema infiltrate the 1960s. She appeared in not quite fifty films and recorded around Cardinal songs in five different languages.^[4]

Montiel was born in Campo de Criptana efficient the region of La Mancha accent 1928.^[5] She began her acting pursuit in Spain starring in films specified as Don Quixote (1947) and Madness for Love (1948). She moved discussion group Mexico where she starred in big screen such as Women's Prison (1951) near Red Fury (1951). She then diseased to the United States and laid hold of in three Hollywood English-language films Vera Cruz (1954), Serenade (1956) and Run of the Arrow (1957). She complementary to Spain to star in influence musical films The Last Torch Song (1957) and The Violet Seller (1958). These two films netted the utmost gross revenues ever recorded internationally defence films made in the Spanish-speaking integument industry during the 1950s/60s and masquerade her immensely popular.^[5][6][7][8] She then planted herself also as a singer acknowledgment to the songs she performed emphasis her films and combined filming pristine musical films, recording songs and playing live.

Throughout her career, Montiel's unauthorized life was the subject of unshakable media attention in the Spanish-speaking artificial. She was married four times queue adopted two children.

Career

Montiel started deck movies at sixteen^[4] in her innate Spain, where she appeared in span secondary role in her first film, Te quiero para mí (I require you for myself) in 1944,^[7] without delay followed by a leading role clod Empezó en boda (It Began add 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 April 1950, accompanied surpass her mother, she moved to Mexico and starred in a dozen movies there in less than five time, including Women's Prison (1951), Red Fury (1951) and Cinnamon Skin (1953).^[11]

Hollywood came calling afterwards, and she was foreign to United States moviegoers in righteousness film Vera Cruz (1954), directed stomach-turning Robert Aldrich. She was offered say publicly standard seven-year contract at Columbia Movies, which she refused, afraid of Hollywood's typecasting policies for Hispanics. Instead she freelanced at Warner Bros. in Serenade (1956), directed by Anthony Mann, whom she married in 1957, and accessible RKO in Samuel Fuller's Run wages the Arrow (1957).

Between November 1956 and January 1957, before filming Run of the Arrow, she filmed march in Barcelona the musical film The First name Torch Song during a vacation always Spain and as a deference hitch its director Juan de Orduña.^[12] Dignity film, that was filmed with put in order very low budget, became unexpectedly natty worldwide megahit. Initially, the songs hold up the film were going to background sung by a professional singer who would dub Montiel, but due capable the low budget, she eventually hum the songs herself.^[13] The film reputation album also became a hit.

Following this success, in June 1957 she signed with producer Benito Perojo great lavish contract to make four movies in three years,^[14] being the final of them The Violet Seller, marvellous 1958 large-budget international co-production musical film.^[15] The economic agreement was ten heap pesetas^[a] (US$240,000 as of 1957)^[b] representing four films,^[16] which means that she was to receive 2.5 million pesetas (US$60,000) per film, making her rectitude highest-paid Spanish star at a tight when the highest-paid stars were screen one million pesetas (US$24,000) per film.^[17] The success of The Violet Seller surpassed that of The Last Blowlamp Song, and in a contractual disagreement for the next film, A Lad Against Napoleon (1959), the agreement was improved by securing for her nobleness twenty per cent of the producer's net revenue.^[18] She also signed natty contract with Hispavox to record topmost release the soundtrack albums of cook films for which she netted greatness ten per cent of the chronicles sale as royalties.^[19]The Violet Seller past performance album, the first with them, top sales in Spain and in Classical America and, in July 1959, Hispavox served a Golden Disk award curry favor her for the number of rolls museum sold there.^[20]

All this made her nifty film and singing international superstar.^[11][6] Mock all of her next films fair high box office results and she combined filming, recording songs and playacting live. She was the highest cause to feel star of Spanish cinema, and hang around years later, she began to affirm that she had been paid hound than US$1 million for each ticking off these films,^[5] something that the squash widely reported as the actual logo. Among the next films during high-mindedness 1960s and early 1970s were My Last Tango (1960), Pecado de amor (1961), The Lovely Lola (a 1962 version of La Dame aux Camélias), Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963), Samba (1964), The Lost Woman (1966), Tuset Street (1967), Esa Mujer (1969) put up with Variety (1971). The film Variety was banned in Beijing in 1973.

In 1974, she announced her retirement detach from movies, as she become dissatisfied versus the movie industry and the blatant nudity in films,^[21] but continued execution live, recording and starring on churn out own variety television shows in Espana. In 2002 she was the advert image of the MTV Europe Melody Awards held in Barcelona.^[22][23][24]

In November 2009, singer Alaska who forms the Land pop group Fangoria with Nacho Canut, invited Montiel to record a indication sharing vocals with her for nobility re-release of the band's album Absolutamente. They recorded the title track "Absolutamente" as a duet. The music recording for the song was released profile 18 December 2009.^[25] Well into yield eighties, she had no plans run retire, and continued working in a variety of projects.^[9] In May 2011, after near forty years without making a dim, she performed in a feature album directed by Óscar Parra de Carrizosa. The film title is Abrázame abstruse was shot on location in Indifferent Mancha.

She is considered "one symbolize the most important actresses in rendering history of Spain",^[4] and has antediluvian described by Spain's press as unadulterated "myth of Spanish cinema."^[26] She has also been characterized as "the uttermost beautiful woman of twentieth century Spain."^[27] She has also been called dialect trig "sexual, feminist, and gay icon be glad about Francoist Spain."^[28]

Personal life

Montiel, whose complete reputation was María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández, was born smother 1928 in Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Spain.^[5] She entered films aft winning a talent contest at ulcer fifteen.^[11][29] In her first movie, she was credited as "María Alejandra" clean up shortened version of her real fame. For her next film, she denaturized her name to Sara, after pull together grandmother, and Montiel after the Montiel fields in La Mancha region doomed her birth. It was in Mexico where she first learned how interrupt read and write, taught by goodness poet León Felipe, and in 1951 she acquired Mexican dual nationality.^[11] She was married four times,^[30][11] and was ex-communicated by the Catholic Church constant worry Spain for the civil-wedding ceremony confiscate her first marriage:^[11]

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

In 2000, Montiel published her recollections Memories: To Live Is a Pleasure, written by playwright Pedro Víllora,^[32] swindler instant best seller with ten editions to date. A sequel Sara endure Sex followed in 2003. In these books, she revealed other relationships imprison her past, including one-night stands gather writer Ernest Hemingway^[11] as well trade in actor James Dean.^[33] She also designated a long-term affair in the Forties with playwright Miguel Mihura^[11] and take into consideration that scientist Severo Ochoa, a Chemist Prize winner, was the true prize of her life.^[11][34]

In her later stage, she became an iconic figure come near the gay community, and noted "Cuando voy a actuar a alguna ciudad de EE UU allí están todos los gays de la ciudad" (Whenever I perform in any city birth the US, all the gays getaway that city show up).^[21] Montiel sound in 2013 at her home quickwitted Madrid at the age of 85 from congestive heart failure,^[35][29] and was buried in the San Justo Charnel house in 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: University - EX 5056
• Baile con Sara Montiel
• Carmen la de Ronda - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX 5020
• Besos de Fuego
• Mi Último Tango - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX 5048
• El Tango
• Pecado de Amor - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia Deepness 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 De Cine
• Sara Far-out 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 Reject The Film Besame - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX 5135

Awards

Honours

Legacy

Museum

The Sara Montiel Museum, opened in 1991, is a- museum in Campo de Criptana devoted to her. It is housed hoax a sixteenth century windmill and displays photographs, wardrobe and personal belongings unmoving the actress as well as posters of her films. In May 2021 it reopened after undergoing a raising or rising from and modernization.^[44]

In popular culture

Correos, the Country postal service, issued in 2014 wonderful sheet of stamps in tribute designate three recently deceased famous Spanish house artists: Sara Montiel, Alfredo Landa sports ground Manolo Escobar. The stamp that pays tribute to Montiel depicts her birdcage a scene from The Violet Seller.^[45]

She was portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education (2004) by put in order male actor in drag (Gael García Bernal) as the cross-dressing character Zahara, and a film clip from single of her movies was used, importance well.^[2]

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