He filmmaker Mario Camus once said about Sara Montiel that hers was not to be an actress or singer, but be a star Ten years after his death, laSexta recalls the figure of the eternal ‘Sarísima’.
He landed in Hollywood in 1954. He was the first Spanish actress to do so, and despite not knowing English, he learned the hyphens phonetically. But if there is a place in the world where she is especially remembered, it is in the heart of La Mancha, in his native Campo de Criptana.
Rosa Ana Fernández, Councilor for Culture, remembers that despite being Sara Montiel, when she arrived in town “it wasLa Antonia’ who spoke with the Manchego accentmade porridge or ate salty sardines”.
Few know of his defense of victims of the raids in the 1970s. “Sara paid the bail for all the drag queens who played her and took them out of jail,” Carlos Valdivia, co-author of the illustrated biography ‘Saritísima’, explains to laSexta. “Sarah would have been the queen of instagram“, says Valdivia, as can be seen in the video above.
Source: Lasexta
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