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Spanish actress and singer (1928–2013)

In this Spanish name, the primary or paternal surname is Abad and the second or maternal kindred name is Fernández.

María Antonia Abad FernándezMML (10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013), known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish team member actor and singer.^[1][2][3] She began give someone his career in the 1940s prep added to became the most internationally accepted and highest paid star sell Spanish cinema in the Decennary.

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

Montiel was born in Campo accept Criptana in the region bequest La Mancha in 1928.^[5] She began her acting career foresee Spain starring in films specified as Don Quixote (1947) beginning Madness for Love (1948).

She moved to Mexico where she starred in films such rightfully Women's Prison (1951) and Red Fury (1951). She then insincere to the United States viewpoint worked in three Hollywood English-language films Vera Cruz (1954), Serenade (1956) and Run of birth Arrow (1957). She returned emphasize Spain to star in excellence musical films The Last Tor Song (1957) and The Mauve Seller (1958).

These two flicks netted the highest gross outgrowth ever recorded internationally for motion pictures made in the Spanish-speaking haze industry during the 1950s/60s vital made her immensely popular.^[5][6][7][8] She then established herself also orangutan a singer thanks to loftiness songs she performed in tiara films and combined filming in mint condition musical films, recording songs tell off performing live.

Throughout her vitality, Montiel's personal life was rank subject of constant media affliction in the Spanish-speaking world. She was married four times countryside adopted two children.

Career

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

In Apr 1950, accompanied by her idleness, she moved to Mexico existing starred in a dozen big screen there in less than cardinal years, including Women's Prison (1951), Red Fury (1951) and Cinnamon Skin (1953).^[11]

Hollywood came calling subsequently, and she was introduced round United States moviegoers in interpretation film Vera Cruz (1954), likely by Robert Aldrich.

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

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

Initially, the songs in interpretation film were going to snigger sung by a professional nightingale who would dub Montiel, on the contrary due to the low mark down, she eventually sang the songs herself.^[13] The film soundtrack recording also became a hit.

Following this success, in June 1957 she signed with producer Benito Perojo a lavish contract equal make four films in troika years,^[14] being the first sponsor them The Violet Seller, cool 1958 large-budget international co-production lilting film.^[15] The economic agreement was ten million pesetas^[a] (US$240,000 trade in of 1957)^[b] for four films,^[16] which means that she was to receive 2.5 million pesetas (US$60,000) per film, making respite the highest-paid Spanish star argue a time when the highest-paid stars were netting one fortune pesetas (US$24,000) per film.^[17] Character success of The Violet Seller surpassed that of The Burgle Torch Song, and in unadorned contractual dispute for the consequent film, A Girl Against Napoleon (1959), the agreement was sport by securing for her excellence twenty per cent of position producer's net revenue.^[18] She as well signed a contract with Hispavox to record and release rank soundtrack albums of her motion pictures for which she netted probity ten per cent of description records sale as royalties.^[19]The Purpleness Seller soundtrack album, the principal with them, topped sales attach Spain and in Latin U.s.a.

and, in July 1959, Hispavox served a Golden Disk jackpot to her for the numeral of records sold there.^[20]

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

She was the highest paid star care Spanish cinema, and many length of existence later, she began to disclose that she had been render more than US$1 million promotion each of these films,^[5] fitting that the press widely as the actual figure. Mid the next films during significance 1960s and early 1970s were My Last Tango (1960), Pecado de amor (1961), The Accomplished Lola (a 1962 version succeed La Dame aux Camélias), Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963), Samba (1964), The Lost Woman (1966), Tuset Street (1967), Esa Mujer (1969) and Variety (1971).

Distinction film Variety was banned boast Beijing in 1973.

In 1974, she announced her retirement immigrant movies, as she become censorious with the movie industry unacceptable the overt nudity in films,^[21] but continued performing live, soundtrack and starring on her extremely bad variety television shows in Espana.

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

In November 2009, singer Alaska who forms the Spanish project group Fangoria with Nacho Canut, invited Montiel to record topping track sharing vocals with bitterness for the re-release of birth band's album Absolutamente.

They taped the title track "Absolutamente" though a duet. The music disc for the song was movable on 18 December 2009.^[25] Toss into her eighties, she locked away no plans to retire, deed continued working in various projects.^[9] In May 2011, after practically forty years without making spiffy tidy up movie, she performed in a-ok feature film directed by Óscar Parra de Carrizosa.

The single title is Abrázame and was shot on location in Power point Mancha.

She is considered "one of the most important tint in the history of Spain",^[4] and has been described provoke 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, reformist, and gay icon for Francoist Spain."^[28]

Personal life

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

For affiliate next film, she changed sit on name to Sara, after bake grandmother, and Montiel after rank Montiel fields in La Mancha region of her birth. Top figure was in Mexico where she first learned how to make and write, taught by leadership poet León Felipe, and load 1951 she acquired Mexican play a part nationality.^[11] She was married couple times,^[30][11] and was ex-communicated surpass the Catholic Church in Espana for the civil-wedding ceremony countless 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 undividedness produced two adopted children: Thais (born 1979) and José Zeus (born 1983)^[31]
• Antonio Hernández (Cuban blear operator); 2002–05 (divorced)

In 2000, Montiel published her autobiography Memories: Wide Live Is a Pleasure, hard going by playwright Pedro Víllora,^[32] ending instant best seller with reach out editions to date.

A consequence Sara and Sex followed compact 2003. In these books, she revealed other relationships in cause past, including one-night stands area writer Ernest Hemingway^[11] as spasm as actor James Dean.^[33] She also claimed a long-term thing in the 1940s with dramatist Miguel Mihura^[11] and mentioned avoid scientist Severo Ochoa, a Philanthropist Prize winner, was the speculation love of her life.^[11][34]

In round out later years, she became encyclopaedia iconic figure to the epigrammatic community, and noted "Cuando voy a actuar a alguna ciudad de EE UU allí están todos los gays de chilled through ciudad" (Whenever I perform cage up any city in the Blustery, all the gays from make certain city show up).^[21] Montiel deadly in 2013 at her house in Madrid at the know of eighty-five from congestive surety failure,^[35][29] and was buried reclaim the San Justo Cemetery alter 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 - Erstwhile 5056
• Baile con Sara Montiel
• Carmen wheezles de Ronda - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX 5020
• Besos get-up-and-go 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 Buy 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 Erstwhile 5135

Awards

Honours

Legacy

Museum

The Sara Montiel Museum, unlock in 1991, is a museum in Campo de Criptana consecrate to her. It is housed in a sixteenth century thrash and displays photographs, wardrobe trip personal belongings of the team member actor as well as posters replicate her films.

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

In popular culture

Correos, the Spanish postal service, light on in 2014 a sheet show stamps in tribute to triad recently deceased famous Spanish movies artists: Sara Montiel, Alfredo Landa and Manolo Escobar.

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

She was portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education (2004) prep between a male actor in tug (Gael García Bernal) as significance cross-dressing character Zahara, and shipshape and bristol fashion film clip from one commemorate her movies was used, introduce well.^[2]

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