Sara Montiel Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography
She was born Sara Montiel (also known as Sarita Montiel or Saritsima; 10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013) in Madrid, Spain, and became a singer and actor. During her time in the Spanish-language film and music industries, she was a well-loved and globally recognised name. Montiel was given the name Mara Antonia Abad when she was born in Campo de Criptana, in the area of Castile–La Mancha, in 1928. Her full name was Mara Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández. Montiel rose to the position of mega-star in Europe and Latin America after her breakthrough performance in Juan de Ordua’s El ltimo Cuplé in 1957, which was a first for the genre. She was the most commercially successful Spanish actress in the world during the mid-20th century, and she was the most successful actress in the world during the mid-20th century. The film Varietes, directed by Miss Montiel, was banned in Beijing in 1973. In the 1950s and 1960s, her films El ltimo Cuple and La Violetera earned the greatest gross earnings ever recorded in the Spanish-language film business for films produced in the Spanish-speaking world. She starred as Antonia, Don Quixote’s niece, in the 1947 Spanish film adaptation of Cervantes’ classic book, Don Quixote. She was represented as the cross-dressing character Zahara in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education by a male actor in drag (Gael Garca Bernal), and a film clip from one of her films was also utilised in the film.