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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 and Latin America. 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. ==Acting career== Montiel started in movies at 15 in her native Spain where she filmed her first movie playing an Islamic princess in the 1948 film ''Locura de Amor'', released in the US as ''The Mad Queen''. Later worked in Mexico, starring in a dozen films in less than five years. Hollywood came calling afterwards, and she was introduced to United States moviegoers in the film ''Vera Cruz'' (1954) co-starring with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, and directed by Robert Aldrich. She was offered the standard seven-year contract at Columbia Pictures, which she refused, afraid of Hollywood's typecasting policies for Hispanics. Instead she free-lanced at Warner Bros. with Mario Lanza and Joan Fontaine in ''Serenade'' (1956), directed by Anthony Mann, and at RKO in Samuel Fuller's ''Run of the Arrow'' (1957), opposite Rod Steiger and Charles Bronson. From ''El Ultimo Cuple'' (1957) on she combined filming, recording songs in five languages and performing live. Among the films during the 1960s and early 1970s were ''La Violetera'' (1958), ''Carmen, la de Ronda'' (1959), ''Mi Ultimo Tango'' (1960), ''Pecado de Amor'' (1961), ''La Bella Lola'' (a 1962 version of ''Camille''), ''Casablanca, Nid d'espions''(1963), ''Samba'' (1964), ''La Femme Perdue'' (1966), ''Tuset Street'' (1967), ''Esa Mujer'' (1969), ''Varietes'' (1971) and others. By then she had become dissatisfied with the movie industry when producers started offering her roles in soft core porno films. In 1974 Montiel announced her retirement from movies but continued performing live, recording and starring on her own variety television shows in Spain.〔("Sara Montiel Dies; Actress Was 85" ) webpronews.com〕 In November 2009, Alaska from the pop group Fangoria invited Montiel to record a track sharing vocals with her for the re-release of the band's album ''Absolutamente''. They recorded the title track "Absolutamente" as a duet. The music video for the song was released in early 2010. She had no plans to retire, and, in May 2011, after almost 40 years without making a movie, she accepted to perform in a feature film directed by Óscar Parra de Carrizosa. The film title is ''Abrázame'' and was shot on location in La Mancha. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sara Montiel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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