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Sara Montiel
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Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (1928-2013)
Film & TV
Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sara Montiel (also Sarita Montiel or Saritísima; 10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013) was a Spanish singer and actress. She was a naturalized citizen of Mexico. Montiel was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of Castile–La Mancha in 1928 as María Antonia Abad (complete name María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández). After her work in Juan…
Known for
- Trainsmoking2025
- Super Sara — Self (archive footage)2025
- La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) — Self - Actress (archive footage)2022
- Todos los nombres de Sara — Self - Actress (archive footage)2019
- Barefoot in the Kitchen — (archive footage)2013
- Enrique Herreros — Self - Actress2011
- 80s: El soundtrack de una generación — Self (archive footage)2006
- Legends — Self2006
- Singing to the Gods: Mario Lanza — Self2005
- Bad Education — Soledad (archive footage) (uncredited)2004
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Key facts
- Born
- María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández , ( 1928-03-10 ) 10 March 1928, Campo de Criptana ( Ciudad Real ), Spain
- Died
- 8 April 2013 (2013-04-08) (aged 85), Madrid , Spain
- Other names
- María Alejandra Sarita Montiel
- Occupations
- Actress Singer
- Years active
- 1943–2013
- Children
- Thais Tous Abad José Zeus Tous Abad
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- María
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Campo de Criptana
- Place of death
- Madrid
- Spouse
- Anthony Mann
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Eye colour
- green
- Hair colour
- brown hair
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Image
- Sara Montiel en 1954 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Sara Montiel
- date of birth
- 1928-03-10
- date of death
- 2013-04-08
- second family name in Spanish name
- Fernández
- name in native language
- Sara Montiel
- start of work period
- 1944-00-00
- end of work period
- 2013-00-00
- birth name
- María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández
- place of burial
- San Justo Cemetery
- cause of death
- sudden cardiac death
- pseudonym
- Sara Montiel
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Encyclopedic overview
María Antonia Abad Fernández (10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013), known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish actress and singer. She began her career in the 1940s and became the most internationally popular and highest paid star of Spanish cinema in the 1960s. She appeared in nearly fifty films and recorded around 500 songs in five different languages.
Montiel was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of La Mancha in 1928. She began her acting career in Spain starring in films such as Don Quixote (1947) and Madness for Love (1948). She moved to Mexico where she starred in films such as Women's Prison (1951) and Red Fury (1951) during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. She then moved to the United States and worked in three Hollywood English-language films Vera Cruz (1954), Serenade (1956) and Run of the Arrow (1957). She returned to Spain to star in the musical films The Last Torch Song (1957) and The Violet Seller (1958). These two films netted the highest gross revenues ever recorded internationally for films made in the Spanish-speaking movie industry during the 1950s/60s and made her immensely popular. She then established herself also as a singer thanks to the songs she performed in her films and combined filming new musical films, recording songs and performing live.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sara Montiel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.