Sarah Montel Biography

Parents wanted her daughter to become a nun. As a child, she began to sing in the church choir.

Her musical memory was unique. Listening to Verdi’s opera radio, she learned them and could reproduce them from beginning to end. The teenager won the music competition and at the same time became the best at the competition of young actors, held at one of Madrid's film studios. At the age of 15, I first hit the set. Several films made a local star out of it.

On the recommendation of friends, a twenty -year -old girl went to Mexico, where in five years she starred in fourteen paintings. The vigilant Hollywood producers drew attention to the sultry Spanish beauty, therefore the next truth is that the short stage of her life was associated with American cinema. The true international glory fell upon her at the end of X, when, returning to her homeland, she starred first in the “last piece”, and then in the “saleswoman of violets”, sentimental musical melodramas.

The paintings were beaten in Spain for all box office records, they successfully went in many countries, records with songs performed by Montel Sales surpassed albums of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, thousands and thousands of fans around the world arranged applause at her “living” concerts. In the wake of this phenomenal popularity, “My Last Tango”, “Queen of Shantecler” and other paintings were shot.

The singer and actress turned into the national treasure of Spain, a museum was opened in her house, she received high state awards and the title of “honorary citizen” not only in her homeland. But at the beginning of x Montel, she put a point in her film career. One of her last works was the role in the film "Variet", set by the classic of Spanish cinema, Juan Antonio Bardem.

The actress explained the categoricality of her decision by the fact that other times and, accordingly, other customs came to the cinema: frank scenes, a continuous nudity. And she did not want to participate in this. However, unlike most stars, aged, having lost their former beauty, which disappeared by their own or alien will from the screen and the rest of their lives, Montelu continued active concert activity, and, in addition, worked a lot on television.

In different television shows, she was a host, and played as an actress, and interviewed invited celebrities like Luciano Pavarotti or Charles Aznavour, and, of course, sang herself. I released two books of memoirs. Her personal life was stormy. Four marriages: American-with director Anthony Mann, unsuccessful-with businessman Jose Vicente Ramirez Olai, the main one-with impresario Pepe Tus, a rejection marriage-with the Cuban operator Tony Ernandez, she was 73, he was conflicting about the novels of Montel, since she did not advertise them very much.

Of the most famous her beloved men, Hemingway Ernest. He “planted” her on the smoking of the Havana cigars. She retained a bad habit even at a respectable age. Montel has two adopted children: son Zeus and daughter Thais. Eduardo Manzonos Brohero Pedro Lazaga Juan Antonio Barte Agustin Navarro Mario Camu Horhe Grau, Luis Markuna