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…DISCOVERED IN MEXICO
by Louis Berg
This Week Movie
Editor
This fiery Spanish-Arab is a second Lupe Velez. She even hicked a producer off the set
The latest
Mexican bombshell to hit Hollywood is an Arab. She is Sarita Montiel (real name
Antonia Maria Abad), and although she was born in Spain and has starred in 19
Spanish and 10 Mexican pictures, she is of genuine Moorish descent.
Her introduction
to American pictures is in the Hecht-Lancaster production, “Vera Cruz”, which
was filmed in Mexico, and in which she has a Lupe Velez sort of role. Sarita is
not quite as whacky as was the original “bombshell”. She is deeply religious
and hard working as well as tempestuous. But she does not lack sassiness.
“Producers
can be obstacles”,
she told producer-actor Lancaster. “I once kicked a
producer off the set because he was rude and stubborn”.
Pretty fresh for
a 22-years-old. Lancaster simply roared and put her under contract.
She is fresh
with interviewers, too.
“How do yo
sleep?” a columnist asked her, wishing to know whether she wore pajamas,
night-gowns or slept in the raw.
“Horizontally”, was her curt
answer.
Asked if she had
a philosophy she came back with “No, but I have a
refrigerator”.
She also has –in her home at Cuernavaca- a huge swimming pool. But she grumbled when a photographer wanted to pose her against it. “You will make me look like a movie star”.
As a matter of
fact, that is exactly what she looks like –old style. She is a throwback to the
days of whoopee Lupe, Dolores del Rio and the exciting Rita Hayworth of 17
years old. Fiery, moody, high-strung.
She may rouse
Hollywood publicity circles out of their lethargy. Here’s real material to work
with. Roll out the gold-plated limousines!
EL RECORTE CCCLXXII
Fue poner un pie en Hollywood y aparecer en portadas y reportajes en revistas de todo el mundo (mucho más de lo que algún día pudiésemos imaginar). En este caso fue incluida entre las estrellas europeas que triunfaban en Hollywood: Sofía Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Pampanini, Silvana Mangano, Rossana Podesta, Yvonne Sanson, Mariolina Bovo, Cosetta Greco, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Antonella Lualdi, Mara Lane, Joan Collins... SARA MONTIEL (en representación de España). Era la revista estadounidense Europe's Top Pin-Ups en su nº 2 de 1955.
SPAIN
SARITA MONTIEL
A Spanish
señorita with mucho sex appeal, Sarita was born in Granada and is probably the
most exciting thing to happen to that city since they threw up the Alhambra. A
talent scout for a Spanish film studio spotted the 13-years-old Sarita as she
was singing in a religious parade, persuaded her parents to allow her to take a
screen test. The test was evidently quite satisfactory as Sarita was
immediately given star billing. Nineteen movies later, Sarita moved her base of
operations to Mexico, which probably plunged the Iberian península into deepest
mourning. By this time, Sarita had long since passed out of the child-star
category and had attracted a Spanish-speaking audience as rabidly pro-Montiel
as any of their pro-Monroe American counterparts. The producing team of
Lancaster and Hecht happened to see Sarita in a torrid bit of Latin-American
celluloid titled “Locura de Amor”, decided she would be perfect for “Vera
Cruz”, and tackled the pleasant task of teaching Miss Montiel some English. The
lenguaje lessons were successful and Sarita garnered “olés” for her performance
in the movie. Twenty-three and single, Sarita lives in Cuernavaca, wouldn’t
mind changing her mailing address to Hollywood. After “Vera-Cruz”, the odds are
that she will.
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