sarah montiel is back on everyone’s lips. Of quixotic origin, Maria Antonia Abad – its original name – or Saritísima – as it was known – left the world ten years ago. Everyone’s and his: the cinema.

She was the first Spanish in make it in hollywood. Without knowing English and without godparents. When she arrived, they read her scripts to her and she memorized them, because she didn’t know a word. She then she already had conquered the Spanish critics.

In the United States, he rubbed shoulders with film legends such as James Dean or Marilyn Monroe. He also managed to work with artists of the stature of Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster or Joan Fontaine. What’s more, it was his own writer Hemingway who taught him to smoke his famous cigars.

At 23 years old,veracruz‘, her first job in Hollywood and a film that made her one of the highest-paid actresses of the moment, made her pass through the arms of Gary Cooper, hypnotize Burt Lancaster and dazzle Marlon Brando with his “manchega-style fried eggs” . Her role was that of a temperamental Mexican guerrilla.

After turning down a deal with Warner, he plunged into a musical. the one of “Two passions and one love” of anthony mann (1956). This director became her first husband. But the man of her life was pepe touswith him he adopted his two children. Precisely about this, about her personal life and about her four weddings, was what was most talked about in the last years of her life.

His extravagances conquered the media agenda in his last years, one that ignored the long film career of the diva of the screen and of the song. But her hometown, Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), has already been in charge of collecting each of her steps in the Molino Culebro, turned into a museum that she herself inaugurated on April 13, 1991, dressed in the typical costume of manchego