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Sara Montiel

1928 - 2013

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María Antonia Abad Fernández MML (10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013), 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 fifty films and recorded around 500 songs in five different languages.Montiel was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of La Mancha in 1928. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sara Montiel has received more than 602,745 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Sara Montiel is the 875th most popular actor (down from 769th in 2019), the 441st most popular biography from Spain (down from 379th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Spanish Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sara Montiels by language

Over the past year Sara Montiel has had the most page views in the with 225,249 views, followed by English (72,207), and Russian (23,997). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (93.46%), Ido (86.69%), and Russian (53.44%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sara Montiel ranks 875 out of 13,578. Before her are Silvana Armenulić, Peter Lorre, Marty Feldman, Frank Langella, Michael Dudikoff, and Andy Lau. After her are Chris Cooper, Holland Taylor, Dolores del Río, Mark Strong, Peter Dinklage, and Don Ameche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sara Montiel ranks 92. Before her are Robert Sheckley, Elias James Corey, Hans Blix, Marco Ferreri, Walter Mondale, and Wolfgang von Trips. After her are Burt Bacharach, Gustav Leonhardt, James Ivory, Colin Chapman, Michel Serrault, and Vladimir Beara. Among people deceased in 2013, Sara Montiel ranks 64. Before her are Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Pierre Mauroy, Henri Dutilleux, Antoni Ramallets, and J. J. Cale. After her are Pedro Rocha, Joe Weider, Kenneth G. Wilson, Patrice Chéreau, David H. Hubel, and Roger Ebert.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Sara Montiel ranks 441 out of 3,355. Before her are Marià Fortuny (1838), Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510), Julen Lopetegui (1966), Mercedes of Orléans (1860), Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873), and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960). After her are Josep Samitier (1902), Juan, Count of Montizón (1822), Raymond Nonnatus (1204), José Antonio Camacho (1955), Ali ibn Yusuf (1083), and María de Padilla (1334).

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Among ACTORS In Spain

Among actors born in Spain, Sara Montiel ranks 10. Before her are Fernando Rey (1917), Javier Bardem (1969), La Belle Otero (1868), Carmen Maura (1945), Francisco Rabal (1926), and Marisa Paredes (1946). After her are María Casares (1922), Victoria Abril (1959), Pedro Alonso (1971), Concha Velasco (1939), Daniel Brühl (1978), and Lina Romay (1954).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Violet Seller
Soledad Moreno
On New Year's Eve 1899, Soledad is peddling violets in a Madrid busy street when she meets aristocrat Fernando. The couple falls in love but their different social backgrounds threatens the relationship. Fernando is under constant pressure from his older brother Alfonso who reminds him of his duties including his engagement to Magdalena, a countess. Disregarding all social conventions and scandalizing high society, Fernando sets up Soledad in a plush apartment and announces their marriage plans.
Apr 6o 19586.8 / 10
Vera Cruz
Nina
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.
Dec 25o 19546.659 / 10
Bad Education
Soledad (archive footage) (uncredited)
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Mar 19o 20047.366 / 10