Coming from a poor family, her childhood was rough due to their financial problems. She was first noticed for her singing talent when, at the age of 13, she won a singing contest. She started her acting career in in some Spanish films such as Locura de amor.
She then continued her journey in Mexico, where she shot movies with some great star. Hollywood noticed her talent thanks to the film Carcel de mujeres. She also starred in Serenade , a musical directed by Anthony Mann, who became her husband for seven years. She then continued a successful acting and singing career in Spain. Until , she used to produce one disc and star in a musical each year. She then gave up her acting career to concentrate on singing performances and was then a real diva.
Sara Montiel certainly was an international star and she became a legend. In this film, each leading man has his girl. What I like about her, is the fact that she plays a very strong character. Someone who knows how to defend herself and who helps the weak ones.
She is not a damsel in distress. She is first introduced in the picture when she is saved by Gary Cooper from some man attacking her. Benjamin Gary Cooper is surprised to see her here and she takes the occasion to give him is wallet back but without the money with which she bought a new dress. These two obviously fell in love with each other, but the movie is not too focused on that.
It is true that she was the first Spanish actress to conquer Hollywood in the s, acting alongside Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper — and her beauty helped her gain a trail of lovers and husbands that ranged from Hemingway who taught her to smoke cigars to the film director Anthony Mann.
But for the vast majority of Spaniards during Franco's era, Montiel simply represented everything that seemed completely unimaginable: international glamour, ridiculous affluence, and a voluptuous feminine sexuality that did not give two hoots for the country's repressive social mores.
As La Vanguardia newspaper put it in its obituary, "In an era of black shawls and hard bread, she kept us in touch with the times. Its title song, "Fumando Espero" "I wait whilst smoking" , recorded in a voice that the producer insisted Montiel made so husky and low she protested she would end up sitting underneath the piano, remained a major hit for years afterwards.
But as much as what she did or how she looked, what fascinated Spaniards was who she knew — which in s Hollywood was just about everybody. In the last photo of a living James Dean, he is next to Montiel, both of them laughing. Her list of lovers, affairs and broken hearts stretched from Dean whose fatal car crash happened after "an afternoon of love" with her, or so she claimed , to playwright Miguel Mihura, Indalecio Prieto, one of the top ministers in the former Spanish Republic, and even the Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Severo Ochoa.
Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. Sara Montiel Spanish actress was s Hollywood star Sara Montiel, 85, a famed, sultry-voiced Spanish actress who achieved Hollywood stardom in the s, died Monday in Madrid, according to her biographer, Peter Villora.
The film was followed by blockbusters such as Serenade and Run of the Arrow It was in the mecca of American film industry —and consolidated as a world star— when Montiel's career began to stagnate. Seven years after having left her mother country, Montiel returned to Spain and it was at that time —the fourth stage in her career —that the artist established herself as one of the most important actresses in the history of Spain.
Sara Montiel died in Madrid on April 8, , at 85 years of age and with a public life known A to Z by her followers and the media. There, every day after school, he went with almost religious discipline to the daily appointment he had with Hispanic cinema at his house.
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