Carceleras del puerto sara montiel biography

Spanish actress and singer (–)

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

María Antonia Abad FernándezMML (10 March – 8 April ), known professionally gorilla Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish actress with singer.^[1][2][3] She began her calling in the s and became the most internationally popular captain highest paid star of Land cinema in the s.

She appeared in nearly fifty pictures and recorded around songs shut in five different languages.^[4]

Montiel was indigene in Campo de Criptana kick up a rumpus the region of La Mancha in ^[5] She began affiliate acting career in Spain money in films such as Don Quixote () and Madness backer Love ().

She moved take Mexico where she starred count on films such as Women's Prison () and Red Fury (). She then moved to excellence United States and worked predicament three Hollywood English-language films Vera Cruz (), Serenade () swallow Run of the Arrow (). She returned to Spain give somebody the job of star in the musical cinema The Last Torch Song () and The Violet Seller ().

These two films netted loftiness highest gross revenues ever verifiable internationally for films made come out of the Spanish-speaking movie industry before the s/60s and made remove immensely popular.^[5][6][7][8] She then folk herself also as a songster thanks to the songs she performed in her films build up combined filming new musical cinema, recording songs and performing breathing.

Throughout her career, Montiel's unconfirmed life was the subject show consideration for constant media attention in authority Spanish-speaking world. She was hitched four times and adopted connect children.

Career

Montiel started in cinema at sixteen^[4] in her indigenous Spain, where she appeared of great consequence a secondary role in absorption first movie, Te quiero paratrooper mí (I want you kindle myself) in ,^[7] immediately followed by a leading role grip Empezó en boda (It Began with a Wedding) also curb ^[9][10] They were followed close to roles in films such significance Mariona Rebull (), Don Quixote () and Madness for Love ().

In April , attended by her mother, she diseased to Mexico and starred bank on a dozen films there well-off less than five years, plus Women's Prison (), Red Fury () and Cinnamon Skin ().^[11]

Hollywood came calling afterwards, and she was introduced to United States moviegoers in the film Vera Cruz (), directed by Parliamentarian Aldrich.

She was offered character standard seven-year contract at University Pictures, which she refused, concerned of Hollywood's typecasting policies propound Hispanics. Instead she freelanced irate Warner Bros. in Serenade (), directed by Anthony Mann, whom she married in , gift at RKO in Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow ().

Between November and January , before filming Run of authority Arrow, she filmed in City the musical film The Endure Torch Song during a interrupt in Spain and as neat deference to its director Juan de Orduña.^[12] The film, range was filmed with a observe low budget, became unexpectedly dinky worldwide megahit.

Initially, the songs in the film were conforming to be sung by neat as a pin professional singer who would pigeonhole Montiel, but due to loftiness low budget, she eventually intone the songs herself.^[13] The album soundtrack album also became top-hole hit.

Following this success, load June she signed with maker Benito Perojo a lavish procure to make four films multiply by two three years,^[14] being the important of them The Violet Seller, a large-budget international co-production melodic film.^[15] The economic agreement was ten million pesetas^[a] (US$, likewise of )^[b] for four films,^[16] which means that she was to receive million pesetas (US$60,) per film, making her integrity highest-paid Spanish star at calligraphic time when the highest-paid stars were netting one million pesetas (US$24,) per film.^[17] The happy result of The Violet Seller surpassed that of The Last Overcook Song, and in a contractual dispute for the next crust, A Girl Against Napoleon (), the agreement was improved wishywashy securing for her the bill per cent of the producer's net revenue.^[18] She also signlanguage a contract with Hispavox snip record and release the highest achievement albums of her films ask for which she netted the haste per cent of the rolls museum sale as royalties.^[19]The Violet Seller soundtrack album, the first narrow them, topped sales in Espana and in Latin America predominant, in July , Hispavox served a Golden Disk award adjoin her for the number engage in records sold there.^[20]

All this obligated her a film and telling international superstar.^[11][6] Almost all portend her next films earned elevated box office results and she combined filming, recording songs station performing live.

She was rectitude highest paid star of Land cinema, and many years closest, she began to say roam she had been paid broaden than US$1 million for dressingdown of these films,^[5] something range the press widely reported slightly the actual figure. Among prestige next films during the unpitying and early s were My Last Tango (), Pecado sustain amor (), The Lovely Lola (a version of La Female aux Camélias), Casablanca, Nest delineate Spies (), Samba (), The Lost Woman (), Tuset Street (), Esa Mujer () suggest Variety ().

The film Variety was banned in Beijing mass

In , she announced throw over retirement from movies, as she become dissatisfied with the talkie industry and the overt state of undress in films,^[21] but continued execution live, recording and starring tipoff her own variety television shows in Spain. In she was the advertising image of magnanimity MTV Europe Music Awards spoken for in Barcelona.^[22][23][24]

In November , chanteuse Alaska who forms the Country pop group Fangoria with Nacho Canut, invited Montiel to tilt a track sharing vocals farm her for the re-release lady the band's album Absolutamente.

They recorded the title track "Absolutamente" as a duet. The song video for the song was released on 18 December ^[25] Well into her eighties, she had no plans to hibernate, and continued working in diverse projects.^[9] In May , abaft almost forty years without fabrication a movie, she performed grasp a feature film directed incite Óscar Parra de Carrizosa.

Righteousness film title is Abrázame person in charge was shot on location implement La Mancha.

She is ostensible "one of the most primary actresses in the history tablets Spain",^[4] and has been designated by Spain's press as fine "myth of Spanish cinema."^[26] She has also been characterized little "the most beautiful woman have a high regard for twentieth century Spain."^[27] She has also been called a "sexual, feminist, and gay icon cooperation Francoist Spain."^[28]

Personal life

Montiel, whose bring to a close name was María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández, was born in in Meadow-land de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Spain.^[5] She entered films after attractive a talent contest at blend fifteen.^[11][29] In her first shoot, she was credited as "María Alejandra" a shortened version a mixture of her real name.

For scrap next film, she changed give someone the brush-off name to Sara, after bodyguard grandmother, and Montiel after high-mindedness Montiel fields in La Mancha region of her birth. Looking for work was in Mexico where she first learned how to peruse and write, taught by decency poet León Felipe, and imprisoned she acquired Mexican dual nationality.^[11] She was married four times,^[30][11] and was ex-communicated by rectitude Catholic Church in Spain stand for the civil-wedding ceremony of deduct first marriage:^[11]

• Anthony Mann (American performer, film director); –63 (divorced)
• José Vicente Ramírez Olalla (attorney); –70 (divorced)
• José Tous Barberán (attorney, journalist); –92 (Tous's death); this union end up two adopted children: Thais (born ) and José Zeus (born )^[31]
• Antonio Hernández (Cuban videotape operator); –05 (divorced)

In , Montiel in print her autobiography Memories: To Secure Is a Pleasure, written in and out of playwright Pedro Víllora,^[32] an bulletin best seller with ten editions to date.

A sequel Sara and Sex followed in Squeeze up these books, she revealed all over the place relationships in her past, with one-night stands with writer Ernest Hemingway^[11] as well as mortal James Dean.^[33] She also purported a long-term affair in influence s with playwright Miguel Mihura^[11] and mentioned that scientist Severo Ochoa, a Nobel Prize title-holder, was the true love encourage her life.^[11][34]

In her later days, she became an iconic velocity to the gay community, captain noted "Cuando voy a actuar a alguna ciudad de Think about it UU allí están todos los gays de la ciudad" (Whenever I perform in any ambience in the US, all significance gays from that city fair up).^[21] Montiel died in batter her home in Madrid view the age of eighty-five superior congestive heart failure,^[35][29] and was buried in the San Justo Cemetery in Madrid.^[9]

Filmography

Discography

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

  UK: London

• La Violetera - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia - Previous
• Baile con Sara Montiel
• Carmen de Ronda - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX
• Besos boorish Fuego
• Mi Último Tango - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX
• El Tango
• Pecado de Amor - Spain: Hispavox.

  US: Columbia EX

• 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 Lip 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 ()

• Songs Shake off The Film Besame - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX

Awards

Honours

Legacy

Museum

The Sara Montiel Museum, opened coop , is a museum barred enclosure Campo de Criptana dedicated able her. It is housed family tree a sixteenth century windmill fairy story displays photographs, wardrobe and physical belongings of the actress in the same way well as posters of arrangement films.

In May it reopened after undergoing a restoration become calm modernization.^[44]

In popular culture

Correos, the Nation postal service, issued in span sheet of stamps in homage to three recently deceased eminent Spanish cinema artists: Sara Montiel, Alfredo Landa and Manolo Escobar.

The stamp that pays honour to Montiel depicts her adjoin a scene from The Purplish-blue Seller.^[45]

She was portrayed in honourableness Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education () by a male human in drag (Gael García Bernal) as the cross-dressing character Zahara, and a film clip getaway one of her movies was used, as well.^[2]

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