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Montiel in 1955
Sara Montiel
(10 March 1928 ? 8 April 2013) was a
Spanish
actress
and
singer
. She played Juana Montes in
Serenade
(1956). She also played in 2004's
Bad Education
. Montiel was a prominent Spanish singer, having many albums.
Montiel was born Maria Antonia Abad in
Campo de Criptana
,
La Mancha
,
Spain
on 10 March 1928.
[1]
At age 16 she began
acting
and appeared in a number of
movies
. In 1950 Montiel moved to
Mexico
where she acted and sang in several
films
. In 1954 she co-starred in the movie
Vera Cruz
with
Gregory Peck
and
Bert Lancaster
. In 1956 she appeared in
Serenade
with
Mario Lanza
and
Joan Fontaine
.
[1]
Montiel returned to Spain to star in a number of films. She became Spain's most
popular
star for the next
decade
.
[2]
She
retired
from movies in the early 1970s but still appeared on
television
and the
Stage
. In 2011 she returned to appear in the
comedy movie
Abrazame
.
[1]
She died on 8 April 2013 in
Madrid
at age eighty-five.
[1]
- ↑
1.0
1.1
1.2
1.3
Harris M. Lentz III,
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013
(Jefferson, NC: Mcfarland, 2014), p. 263
- ↑
Alberto Mira Nouselles,
Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010), p. xix