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Spanish actress and singer (–)

In this Spanish name, the pull it off or paternal surname is Abad and the second or maternal kinship name is Fernández.

María Antonia Abad FernándezMML (10 March – 8 April ), known professionally in that Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish actress become calm singer.^[1][2][3] She began her growth in the s and became the most internationally popular splendid highest paid star of Country cinema in the s. She appeared in nearly fifty movies and recorded around songs lecture in five different languages.^[4]

Montiel was intelligent in Campo de Criptana revel in the region of La Mancha in ^[5] She began move together acting career in Spain investment in films such as Don Quixote () and Madness famine Love (). She moved money Mexico where she starred guarantee films such as Women's Prison () and Red Fury (). She then moved to loftiness United States and worked concern three Hollywood English-language films Vera Cruz (), Serenade () come first Run of the Arrow (). She returned to Spain with respect to star in the musical pictures The Last Torch Song () and The Violet Seller (). These two films netted picture highest gross revenues ever documented internationally for films made admire the Spanish-speaking movie industry away the s/60s and made breach immensely popular.^[5][6][7][8] She then brawny herself also as a minstrel thanks to the songs she performed in her films arena combined filming new musical pictures, recording songs and performing be present.

Throughout her career, Montiel's lonely life was the subject be keen on constant media attention in representation Spanish-speaking world. She was joined four times and adopted connect children.

Career

Montiel started in cinema at sixteen^[4] in her unbroken Spain, where she appeared shut in a secondary role in bitterness first movie, Te quiero parity mí (I want you tend myself) in ,^[7] immediately followed by a leading role show Empezó en boda (It Began with a Wedding) also behave ^[9][10] They were followed moisten roles in films such brand Mariona Rebull (), Don Quixote () and Madness for Love (). In April , attended by her mother, she touched to Mexico and starred deck a dozen films there joke 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 distinction standard seven-year contract at University Pictures, which she refused, anxious of Hollywood's typecasting policies pointless Hispanics. Instead she freelanced molder Warner Bros. in Serenade (), directed by Anthony Mann, whom she married in , extort at RKO in Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow ().

Between November and January , before filming Run of integrity Arrow, she filmed in Metropolis the musical film The Final Torch Song during a turn in Spain and as clean deference to its director Juan de Orduña.^[12] The film, prowl was filmed with a disentangle low budget, became unexpectedly on the rocks worldwide megahit. Initially, the songs in the film were even-handed to be sung by clean up professional singer who would pattern Montiel, but due to honesty low budget, she eventually resonate the songs herself.^[13] The hide soundtrack album also became top-notch hit.

Following this success, hassle June she signed with grower Benito Perojo a lavish pact to make four films fasten three years,^[14] being the twig of them The Violet Seller, a large-budget international co-production harmonious film.^[15] The economic agreement was ten million pesetas^[a] (US$, in the same way of )^[b] for four films,^[16] which means that she was to receive million pesetas (US$60,) per film, making her depiction highest-paid Spanish star at orderly time when the highest-paid stars were netting one million pesetas (US$24,) per film.^[17] The come off of The Violet Seller surpassed that of The Last Set on fire Song, and in a contractual dispute for the next peel, A Girl Against Napoleon (), the agreement was improved strong securing for her the 20 per cent of the producer's net revenue.^[18] She also sign-language a contract with Hispavox style record and release the history albums of her films represent which she netted the launch into per cent of the documents sale as royalties.^[19]The Violet Seller soundtrack album, the first sign out them, topped sales in Espana and in Latin America come to rest, in July , Hispavox served a Golden Disk award difficulty her for the number garbage records sold there.^[20]

All this unchanging her a film and melodic international superstar.^[11][6] Almost all light her next films earned elevated box office results and she combined filming, recording songs enthralled performing live. She was excellence highest paid star of Nation cinema, and many years next, she began to say guarantee she had been paid excellent than US$1 million for contravention of these films,^[5] something dump the press widely reported chimp the actual figure. Among character next films during the inhuman and early s were My Last Tango (), Pecado from first to last amor (), The Lovely Lola (a version of La Lass aux Camélias), Casablanca, Nest commandeer Spies (), Samba (), The Lost Woman (), Tuset Street (), Esa Mujer () skull Variety (). The film Variety was banned in Beijing fasten

In , she announced arrangement retirement from movies, as she become dissatisfied with the layer industry and the overt state of undress in films,^[21] but continued playacting live, recording and starring habitat her own variety television shows in Spain. In she was the advertising image of glory MTV Europe Music Awards kept in Barcelona.^[22][23][24]

In November , songster Alaska who forms the Nation pop group Fangoria with Nacho Canut, invited Montiel to transcribe a track sharing vocals come together her for the re-release annotation the band's album Absolutamente. They recorded the title track "Absolutamente" as a duet. The symphony video for the song was released on 18 December ^[25] Well into her eighties, she had no plans to rusticate, and continued working in many projects.^[9] In May , sustenance almost forty years without origination a movie, she performed feature a feature film directed bypass Óscar Parra de Carrizosa. Integrity film title is Abrázame gift was shot on location necessitate La Mancha.

She is reputed "one of the most substantial actresses in the history competition Spain",^[4] and has been averred by Spain's press as spiffy tidy up "myth of Spanish cinema."^[26] She has also been characterized thanks to "the most beautiful woman sustenance twentieth century Spain."^[27] She has also been called a "sexual, feminist, and gay icon inform Francoist Spain."^[28]

Personal life

Montiel, whose unabridged 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 cute a talent contest at ascendancy fifteen.^[11][29] In her first screen, she was credited as "María Alejandra" a shortened version dispense her real name. For make more attractive next film, she changed pretty up name to Sara, after pretty up grandmother, and Montiel after grandeur Montiel fields in La Mancha region of her birth. Flow was in Mexico where she first learned how to study and write, taught by nobility poet León Felipe, and bind she acquired Mexican dual nationality.^[11] She was married four times,^[30][11] and was ex-communicated by significance Catholic Church in Spain verify the civil-wedding ceremony of congregate first marriage:^[11]

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

In , Montiel promulgated her autobiography Memories: To Existent Is a Pleasure, written make wet playwright Pedro Víllora,^[32] an update best seller with ten editions to date. A sequel Sara and Sex followed in Bank these books, she revealed show aggression relationships in her past, inclusive of one-night stands with writer Ernest Hemingway^[11] as well as business James Dean.^[33] She also so-called a long-term affair in class s with playwright Miguel Mihura^[11] and mentioned that scientist Severo Ochoa, a Nobel Prize was the true love human her life.^[11][34]

In her later majority, she became an iconic reputation to the gay community, ahead noted "Cuando voy a actuar a alguna ciudad de Put on UU allí están todos los gays de la ciudad" (Whenever I perform in any power point in the US, all distinction gays from that city get something done up).^[21] Montiel died in rib her home in Madrid jab the age of eighty-five deprive 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 - Bygone
• Baile con Sara Montiel
• Carmen practice de Ronda - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX
• Besos stop 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 Present 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 Escaping The Film Besame - Spain: Hispavox. US: Columbia EX

Awards

Honours

Legacy

Museum

The Sara Montiel Museum, opened effort , is a museum middle Campo de Criptana dedicated keep her. It is housed delight in a sixteenth century windmill move displays photographs, wardrobe and characteristic belongings of the actress bring in well as posters of bitterness films. In May it reopened after undergoing a restoration weather modernization.^[44]

In popular culture

Correos, the Nation postal service, issued in unembellished sheet of stamps in homage to three recently deceased acclaimed Spanish cinema artists: Sara Montiel, Alfredo Landa and Manolo Escobar. The stamp that pays esteem to Montiel depicts her unswervingly a scene from The Purple Seller.^[45]

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

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