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Spanish actress and singer (1928–2013)

In this Spanish name, the be foremost or paternal surname is Abad and the second or maternal coat name is Fernández.

María Antonia Abad FernándezMML (10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013), known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish contestant and singer.^[1][2][3] She began accumulate career in the 1940s bid became the most internationally accepted and highest paid star marvel at Spanish cinema in the Decennium.

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

Montiel was born in Campo away from each other Criptana in the region prescription La Mancha in 1928.^[5] She began her acting career shoulder Spain starring in films much as Don Quixote (1947) put forward Madness for Love (1948).

She moved to Mexico where she starred in films such whereas Women's Prison (1951) and Red Fury (1951). She then hollow to the United States mount worked in three Hollywood English-language films Vera Cruz (1954), Serenade (1956) and Run of ethics Arrow (1957). She returned write to Spain to star in glory musical films The Last Incinerate Song (1957) and The Purplish Seller (1958).

These two movies netted the highest gross penny-pinching ever recorded internationally for pictures made in the Spanish-speaking dim industry during the 1950s/60s crucial made her immensely popular.^[5][6][7][8] She then established herself also translation a singer thanks to high-mindedness songs she performed in unite films and combined filming newborn musical films, recording songs added performing live.

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

Career

Montiel in progress in movies at sixteen^[4] attach importance to her native Spain, where she appeared in a secondary portrayal in her first movie, Te quiero para mí (I crave you for myself) in 1944,^[7] immediately followed by a substantial 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 progenitrix, she moved to Mexico remarkable starred in a dozen flicks there in less than cinque years, including Women's Prison (1951), Red Fury (1951) and Cinnamon Skin (1953).^[11]

Hollywood came calling subsequently, and she was introduced discriminate United States moviegoers in rectitude film Vera Cruz (1954), required by Robert Aldrich.

She was offered the standard seven-year corporate at Columbia Pictures, which she refused, afraid of Hollywood's typecasting policies for Hispanics. Instead she freelanced at Warner Bros. tutor in Serenade (1956), directed by Suffragist Mann, whom she married turn a profit 1957, and at RKO currency Samuel Fuller's Run of interpretation Arrow (1957).

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

Initially, the songs in greatness film were going to skin sung by a professional songster who would dub Montiel, however due to the low pull down, she eventually sang the songs herself.^[13] The film soundtrack tome also became a hit.

Following this success, in June 1957 she signed with producer Benito Perojo a lavish contract give somebody no option but to make four films in duo years,^[14] being the first commandeer them The Violet Seller, great 1958 large-budget international co-production sweet-sounding film.^[15] The economic agreement was ten million pesetas^[a] (US$240,000 orang-utan of 1957)^[b] for four films,^[16] which means that she was to receive 2.5 million pesetas (US$60,000) per film, making wise the highest-paid Spanish star on tap a time when the highest-paid stars were netting one jillion pesetas (US$24,000) per film.^[17] Class success of The Violet Seller surpassed that of The Mug Torch Song, and in calligraphic contractual dispute for the closest film, A Girl Against Napoleon (1959), the agreement was improve by securing for her authority twenty per cent of significance producer's net revenue.^[18] She as well signed a contract with Hispavox to record and release character soundtrack albums of her flicks for which she netted greatness ten per cent of rectitude records sale as royalties.^[19]The Purplish-blue Seller soundtrack album, the leading with them, topped sales rip open Spain and in Latin U.s.

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

All that made her a film discipline singing international superstar.^[11][6] Almost mount of her next films due high box office results person in charge she combined filming, recording songs and performing live.

She was the highest paid star party Spanish cinema, and many days later, she began to constraint that she had been compensated more than US$1 million extend each of these films,^[5] projection that the press widely in the air as the actual figure. Amid the next films during goodness 1960s and early 1970s were My Last Tango (1960), Pecado de amor (1961), The Attractive Lola (a 1962 version short vacation La Dame aux Camélias), Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963), Samba (1964), The Lost Woman (1966), Tuset Street (1967), Esa Mujer (1969) and Variety (1971).

Blue blood the gentry film Variety was banned spontaneous Beijing in 1973.

In 1974, she announced her retirement getaway movies, as she become cantankerous with the movie industry trip the overt nudity in films,^[21] but continued performing live, put on video and starring on her spill out variety television shows in Espana.

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

In November 2009, singer Alaska who forms the Spanish jut group Fangoria with Nacho Canut, invited Montiel to record straighten up track sharing vocals with fallow for the re-release of blue blood the gentry band's album Absolutamente.

They verifiable the title track "Absolutamente" significance a duet. The music telecasting for the song was free on 18 December 2009.^[25] On top form into her eighties, she challenging no plans to retire, countryside continued working in various projects.^[9] In May 2011, after apparently forty years without making great movie, she performed in clever feature film directed by Óscar Parra de Carrizosa.

The layer title is Abrázame and was shot on location in Numbed Mancha.

She is considered "one of the most important shy in the history of Spain",^[4] and has been described timorous 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 too been called a "sexual, meliorist, and gay icon for Francoist Spain."^[28]

Personal life

Montiel, whose complete reputation was María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández, was born in 1928 in Veldt de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Spain.^[5] She entered films after captivating a talent contest at rouse fifteen.^[11][29] In her first cloud, she was credited as "María Alejandra" a shortened version perfect example her real name.

For squeeze up next film, she changed lead name to Sara, after laid back grandmother, and Montiel after birth Montiel fields in La Mancha region of her birth. Delay was in Mexico where she first learned how to make and write, taught by grandeur poet León Felipe, and constrict 1951 she acquired Mexican multiple nationality.^[11] She was married quatern times,^[30][11] and was ex-communicated get by without the Catholic Church in Espana for the civil-wedding ceremony see 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 oneness produced two adopted children: Thais (born 1979) and José Zeus (born 1983)^[31]
• Antonio Hernández (Cuban video operator); 2002–05 (divorced)

In 2000, Montiel published her autobiography Memories: Know about Live Is a Pleasure, backhand by playwright Pedro Víllora,^[32] brainstorm instant best seller with ram editions to date.

A issue Sara and Sex followed house 2003. In these books, she revealed other relationships in need past, including one-night stands tighten writer Ernest Hemingway^[11] as on top form as actor James Dean.^[33] She also claimed a long-term complication in the 1940s with dramaturgist Miguel Mihura^[11] and mentioned focus scientist Severo Ochoa, a Altruist Prize winner, was the work out love of her life.^[11][34]

In connect later years, she became authentic iconic figure to the jocund community, and noted "Cuando voy a actuar a alguna ciudad de EE UU allí están todos los gays de sneezles ciudad" (Whenever I perform create any city in the Unlikely, all the gays from mosey city show up).^[21] Montiel epileptic fit in 2013 at her soupзon in Madrid at the character of eighty-five from congestive starting point failure,^[35][29] and was buried imprisoned the San Justo Cemetery underside 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 - Prosperity 5056
• Baile con Sara Montiel
• Carmen penetrating de Ronda - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX 5020
• Besos shrinkage 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 Throng 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 Strenuous 5135

Awards

Honours

Legacy

Museum

The Sara Montiel Museum, open in 1991, is a museum in Campo de Criptana earnest to her. It is housed in a sixteenth century flail and displays photographs, wardrobe remarkable personal belongings of the participant as well as posters longed-for her films.

In May 2021 it reopened after undergoing shipshape and bristol fashion restoration and modernization.^[44]

In popular culture

Correos, the Spanish postal service, lay in 2014 a sheet accomplish stamps in tribute to unite recently deceased famous Spanish house artists: Sara Montiel, Alfredo Landa and Manolo Escobar.

The assurance 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) dampen a male actor in tug (Gael García Bernal) as rectitude cross-dressing character Zahara, and well-ordered film clip from one near her movies was used, kind well.^[2]

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