Sara Montiel
Born: 1928-03-10 in Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain
Died: 2013-04-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
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 de Orduña's El Último Cuplé in 1957, Montiel worked in Europe, Latin America and United States. Montiel's film Varietes was banned in Beijing in 1973. Her films El Último Cuple and La Violetera netted the highest gross revenues ever recorded for films made in the Spanish speaking movie industry during the 1950s/60s. She played the role of Antonia, the niece of Don Quixote, in the 1947 Spanish film version of Cervantes's great novel. She was portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education by a male actor in drag (Gael García Bernal) as the cross-dressing character Zahara, and a film clip from one of her movies was used as well.
Filmography
2025
- Trainsmoking
- Super Sara as Self (archive footage)
2022
- La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019
- Todos los nombres de Sara as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2013
- Barefoot in the Kitchen as (archive footage)
2011
- Enrique Herreros as Self - Actress
2006
- Legends as Self
- 80s: El soundtrack de una generación as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Singing to the Gods: Mario Lanza as Self
2004
- Bad Education as Soledad (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
- Sara, una estrella
- Zero/infinito as (voice)
1988
- La última cena... del 88 as Self
1976
- Songs for After a War as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975
- Canciones de nuestra vida as (archive footage)
1974
- Five Pillows for One Night as Rosa López / Ana
1969
- Esa mujer as Soledad Romero Fuentes
1968
- Tuset Street as Violeta Riscal
1966
- La vida de Pedro Infante as (archive footage)
- La mujer perdida as Sara Fernán
1965
- The Woman from Beirut as Isabel Llanos
- Samba as Belén / Laura Monteiro
1963
- Casablanca, Nest of Spies as Teresa Vilar
1962
- Queen of the Chantecler as La bella Charito
- The Lovely Lola as Lola
1961
- Pecado de amor as Magda Beltrán / Sor Belén
1960
- Mi último tango as Marta Andreu
1959
- Carmen from Ronda as Carmen
1958
- The Violet Seller as Soledad Moreno
1957
- Run of the Arrow as Yellow Moccasin
- The Last Couplet as Maria Luján
1956
- Serenade as Juana Montes
- Where the Circle Ends as Isabel
1955
- Yo no creo en los hombres as María Caridad Robledo
- Frente al Pecado de Ayer
1954
- Vera Cruz as Nina
- ¿Por qué ya no me quieres? as Rosaura Moreno / Lilia
- Se solicitan modelos
1953
- ¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
- Ella, Lucifer y yo
- Cinnamon Skin as Marucha
- That Man from Tangier as Aixa
1952
- Ahí viene Martín Corona as Rosario
- El enamorado as Rosario
1951
- Furia roja as María Stevens
- I Need Money
- Cárcel de Mujeres as Dora
1950
- Pequeñeces as Monique
- El capitán Veneno
1948
- Alhucemas as María Luisa Pereira
- La mies es mucha as Guyerati
- Locura de amor as Aldara
1947
- Mariona Rebull as Lula
- Don Quixote as Antonia
1945
- Bambú as Yoyita