Sara Montiel

Biography

Sara Montiel was a Spanish singer and actress born as María Antonia Abad in Campo de Criptana, Castile-La Mancha, Spain in 1928. She became the most internationally popular star of Spanish cinema in the 1960s with films like "Madness for Love" (1948) and "The Violet Seller" (1958), which netted record-breaking revenues. Montiel's career spanned nearly fifty films and 500 song recordings in five languages, solidifying her status as a Hollywood icon of Spanish cinema.