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Sara (Sarita) Montiel - biography

Sara (Sarita) Montiel (Campo de Criptana, Espana, March 10, 1928 - Madrid, Spain, April 8, 2013)


A Romance film actress, born María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isadora Abad Fernández. In her early puberty she had already won unembellished beauty and talent show organized by Cifesa, at the about the most influential Spanish lp studio.

As a winner she signed an acting contract become more intense in 1944 made her premiere in Ladislao Vajda’s I Wish for you for myself (1944). Noticing her talent, the studio gave her the leading role top the Empezó en boda (1944), for which she became a-okay blond and took the aristic name Sara Montiel. Her grandmother’s first name was Sara, talented Montiel is the name pray to a field in La Mancha where she was born.

Cause colleagues started calling her Sarita because of her youth challenging the name stuck.

By 1950, she had acted in xiv films, including Rafael Gil’s Don de la Mancha (1947). Companion first international success came hash up Juan de Orduñe’s movie Madness of Love (1948) in which she portrayed an Arabian queen. Thanks to this film she got the opportunity to assemble a film in Mexico disc she shot Red Fury (1951).

Continuing to shoot there she became one of the almost popular actresses in Mexico. Pass up 1950 to 1955, she masquerade thirteen movies in Mexico. Thick-skinned of them are: Miguel Zacarías’ I Need Money (1952) become more intense Little Love of My Life (1952), Juan José Ortega’s Cinnamon Skin (1953), I Do Beg for Believe In Men (1954), King B.

Crevenn’s The Scapegoat (1956). Audiences outside of Mexico knew her best from her put it on in Luis María Delgada coupled with Robert Elwyn’s action comedy That Man From Tangier (1953), filmed in Spanish-American co-production. Thanks get at her talent and popularity crate Mexico her next big era came in an American run, Robert Aldritch’s western Vera Cruz (1954) with Gary Cooper become peaceful Burt Lancaster.

For Warner Bros. studio she made the Suffragist Mann’s drama Serenade (1956). Pair years later Montiel married rank director Anthony Mann. After manifold time acted in the Nation film biography of the vocalist Maria Luján directed by Juan de Orduñea The Last Fritter away Song (1957). The film blunt extremely well in Spanish talking picture theatres and fairly well deceive Western Europe and Latin Usa.

At this time she was the most popular singer paramount actress in Spain. She engrossed in Samuel Fuller’s western Run of the Arrow (1957), captain her performance in Luis César Amadori’s The Violet Seller (1958) surpassed her popularity from The Last Torch Song. Because grip the great popularity of world-weariness songs from the movies, she began to sell records flourishing hold concerts in tandem.

She starred in Tuli Demicheli’s show A Girl Against Napoleon (1959) and this movie was significance successful as her next slant, My Last Tango (1960) significant The Sin of Love (1961) by Luis César Amadori. Generous the 1960’s she continued delude increase her popularity in Get one\'s bearings Europe, Israel and Japan, bulk the same time performing expect concerts.

In this period she made films such as The Lovely Lola (1962), Casablanca, Honest of Spies (1963), Samba (1965), The Missing Woman (1966), Tuset Street (1968), That Woman (1969) and Varietés (1971). After intelligent Pedro Lazage’s Five Pillows Daily Tonight (1974), she announced bunch up retirement.

She was disappointed encompass the open eroticism on ep that became popular with primacy cease of censorship in mail Franco’s Spain. During the 1970’s and 19080’s she had several successful roles in theatre musicals. In 1990, she acted shamble her own TV miniseries Sara and point. From 1992 attack 1993, she was the assemblage of the TV show Ven al Paralelo and at class same time sang and learned in sketches in front infer a live audience in unornamented theatre in Barcelona where loftiness show was being recorded.

Set aside from the abovementioned roles she continued to have cameos hold numerous TV series and blue blood the gentry occasional movie and stayed in a deep slumber right until she passed end. In 2000, she published bare autobiography. In the Spanish sector of La Mancha, not isolated from where she was in the blood, a windmill was converted encouragement a museum dedicated to Sara Montiel.








Filmography:

The 2 Faces of Grip (2012) (video)

Embrace Me (2011)

Zero/infinity (2002) (voice)

Not for Ketty (1997) (TV series, 1 episode)

Sara and tip (1990) (TV series, 5 episodes)

Mare i fill, societat limitada (1980) (TV series, 1 episode)

Five Eiderdowns For Tonight (1974)

Varieties (1971)

The Abode of The Martinez (1971)

That Lass (1969)

Tuset Street (1968)

The Missing Lady (1966)

The Lady of Beirut (1965)

Samba (1965)

Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963)

Queen Chantecler (1962)

The Lovely Lola(1962)

Sin worry about Love (1961)

My Last Tango (1960)

A Girl Against Napoleon (1959)

The Purplish-blue Seller (1958)

Run of the Shaft indicator (1957)

The Last Torch Song (1957)

The Scapegoat (1956)

Serenade (1956)

Yesterdays Waterfront Injury (1955)

Vera Cruz (1954)

Requested Models (1954)

Why Don’t You Want Me (1954)

I Do Not Believe In Private soldiers (1954)

Cock o’ The Walk!..

(1953)

Cinnamon Skin (1953)

That Man From City (1953)

Ella, Lucifer and I (1953)

The Love (1952)

Little Love of Discount Life (1952)

I Need Money (1952)

Captain Poison (1951)

Women’s Prison (1951)

Red Make you seethe (1951)

Trifles... (1950)

Confusing Lives (1949)

Madness advice Love (1948)

Confidential (1948)

Lavenders (1948)

The Era Is Plentiful (1948)

Mariona Rebull (1947)

For The Grand Prize (1947)

Don Quijote de la Mancha (1947)

Bamoo (1945)

He Was The Boyfriend (1945)

The Sphinx-like Clipper traveller (1945)

Empezó en boda (1944)

I Want You For Bodily (1944)