María Antonia Abad FernándezMML, known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish actress and singer. She began her career in the 1940s and became the most internationally popular and highest paid star of Spanish cinema in the 1960s. She appeared in nearly 50 films and recorded around 500 songs in five different languages.
The Madrid Royal Conservatory is a music college in Madrid, Spain.
Pecado de amor is a 1961 Argentine musical drama film directed by Luis César Amadori and starred by Sara Montiel, Rafael Alonso and Reginald Kernan. It was produced by Cesáreo González and Benito Perojo, written by Gabriel Peña, Jesús María de Arozamena and Luis César Amadori and composed by Gregorio García Segura.
Fata Morgana is a 1965 Spanish drama film directed by veteran filmmaker Vicente Aranda and distributed in America by Troma Entertainment. It grossed 1,882,000 ESP in the box office with 40,053 in attendance.
Novio a la vista, or Boyfriend in Sight, is a 1954 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. It is based on an idea by Spanish filmmaker Edgar Neville, and produced by Benito Perojo. In 1918 a young Spanish woman is taken to a coastal resort by her parents to find her a suitable husband.
The Legend of Frenchie King or Petroleum Girls is a 1971 French, Spanish, Italian and British international co-production western comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot.
The Long Winter is a 1992 French–Spanish drama film directed by Jaime Camino and starring Vittorio Gassman, Elizabeth Hurley and Jacques Penot. It depicts a middle-class Catalan family during the Spanish Civil War. The film was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Viviana is a Mexican telenovela produced by Valentín Pimstein for Canal de las Estrellas in 1978.
Currito of the Cross is a 1949 Spanish drama film directed by Luis Lucia and starring Pepín Martín Vázquez, Jorge Mistral and Manuel Luna. It was the third film adaptation of the novel of the same title by Alejandro Pérez Lugín.
Bamboo is a 1945 Spanish historical comedy film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia and starring Imperio Argentina. It is set in 1898 during the Cuban War of Independence.
Black Box Affair is a 1966 Italian-Spanish Eurospy film written and directed by Marcello Ciorciolini and starring Craig Hill and Teresa Gimpera. Hill first met Gimpera in this film, and the couple got married shortly later. It is one of the rare films of the time depicting an alliance between Soviets and Americans to face a higher menace.
The Rebellious Novice is a 1972 Spanish musical film directed by Luis Lucia and starring Rocío Dúrcal, Guillermo Murray and Isabel Garcés. It is a musical version of the 1889 novel Sister San Sulpicio by Armando Palacio Valdés.
Teresa Gimpera Flaquer is a Spanish film and television actress and former model who was married to U.S. actor Craig Hill. Hill was born in Los Angeles, California. After a steady career in the motion picture industry, his acting career in the U.S. began to wane. He moved to Barcelona, Spain where he found work in Spaghetti Westerns, as well as other films, where he met model/actress Teresa Gimpera. They continued to reside and work in Barcelona, and remained married until Hill's death in April 2014.
English Striptease is a 1975 Spanish comedy film directed by José Luis Madrid and starring Carmen Sevilla, Teresa Gimpera and Ágata Lys.
A Girl Against Napoleon or The Devil Made a Woman, also known under its Spanish title Carmen, la de Ronda, is a 1959 Spanish historical adventure film directed by Tulio Demicheli and starring Sara Montiel, Jorge Mistral and Maurice Ronet. It is loosely based on the story of Prosper Mérimée's Carmen, with the setting changed to the Peninsular War era. Carmen is involved with the guerrillas fighting against the French occupation.
The Last Torch Song is a 1957 Spanish jukebox musical film directed by Juan de Orduña and starring Sara Montiel, Armando Calvo and Enrique Vera.
The Big Lie is a 1956 Spanish film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Francisco Rabal, Madeleine Fischer and Jacqueline Pierreux.
My Last Tango is a 1960 Spanish drama film directed by Luis César Amadori and starring Sara Montiel, Maurice Ronet and Isabel Garcés. A former maid enjoys success as a tango performer in Argentina.
She, Lucifer and I is a 1953 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel Morayta and starring Sara Montiel, Abel Salazar and Carlos López Moctezuma.
Captain Poison is a 1951 Spanish historical comedy film directed by Luis Marquina and starring Sara Montiel, Fernando Fernán Gómez and Amparo Martí. It is an adaptation of a novel of the same title by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón which had previously been made into a 1943 Argentine film and a 1945 Mexican film. The story is set in Spain during the 1840s, in the reign of Isabella II.
