Divas Sara Montiel: husbands, abortions, a thousand lovers and mysterious hatred with Carmen Sevilla
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There are phrases in the pink press that remain for posterity.
On October 17, 2002,
Sara Montiel
and Tony Hernández (56) were married in the Majadahonda town hall (Madrid)
.
To preserve the exclusive, the divine Sara had no other choice but to shout delicately as well as glamorously to the journalists who pounced on her inside the town hall, some answers that are already part of the history of the tabloids
: ' What's going on?'
'What attempt is this?'
.
Nothing to do with Pepe Sancho's violent response to the paparazzi: "You are pigs. Let's suck her!".
In the street, numerous onlookers shouted "Long live the bride and groom", while Sara, sheltered behind sunglasses and
an unusual delicately ironed reddish hair, was somewhat annoyed
.
Actively and passively, the protagonist of El último cuplé (1957) denied that they had been married civilly.
She was 74 years old and he was 36.
Doña Sara de la Mancha left the town hall in praise of crowds and shortly after Tony did, who insisted to those present that he was there to process some papers.
There were those who accused them of misleading people by changing clothes in court
and orchestrating a plan to go out separately.
Tony denied it.
Both admitted that they would get married the next day.
It was necessary to preserve the exclusive on the cover of the magazine
Hello!
.
Despite the impressive assets that Sara owned -
an attic with a private pool in the Salamanca district valued at 3 million euros
, several apartments in the Plaza de España and innumerable diamond, emerald and ruby jewels - she needed cash, as Carmen often says Lomana (74) in Pijolandia.
The actress was a great strategist.
Ella from Hollywood she had learned to perfect the techniques for the commodification of her name, but this was also in her genes,
since embracing poverty in the cradle sharpens
her ingenuity
.
She herself began to gestate her own myth.
That if the playwright Miguel Mihura made her a woman, the poet León Felipe taught her to read and write, Hemingway taught her to smoke cigars or that Gary Cooper when he came to Spain always commented: "where is my Montielita?".
Sara learned to fight windmills without going crazy.
Saritísima, as her beloved Terenci Moix baptized her, finally starred on the cover of the greeting magazine with her fourth husband.
An image from Parnassus with one two pieces in silk and champagne-colored paillettes by Antonio Ardón
, a crown of natural flowers on her curly hair and a face that seemed to come out of one of the works in the Prado Museum that extolled the condition of diva of her
Her faithful friend, the stylist Manuel Zamorano, enhanced her aura.
Hardly anyone believed in the couple's bond.
It seemed impossible that a star with more experience than the age of her husband would have fallen in love with her.
At the age of five,
Tony fell in love with her, screening her films in her native Cuba
.
She studied at the San Antonio de los Baños International Film and Television School and began an epistolary and telephone relationship between admirer and muse.
Their exchange of glances in Madrid said it all, which precipitated the departure of Thais (43) and Zeus (39) from their mother's palatial house in the Salamanca district.
Both decided to cut the only unconditional love that exists between human beings
, that of a mother and her children.
Despite everything, Sara and Tony kept going.
Their relationship went from zero to one hundred in a matter of seconds, like the sports car Sara should have been in when James Dean crashed.
A myth was born.
They met because they both worked in adjoining studios
.
Dean was filming Giant (1956) with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson and Montiel was starring in Two Passions and One Love (1956) with Joan Fontaine and Mario Lanza.
The wedding party was held at the actress's house.
Thais and Zeus had left the forum.
Two decades ago everything was said, like that Tony was gay and was going to hunt Sara's fortune, who had lost her mind.
Her offspring gave her an ultimatum: "Tony or us"
.
In July 2003 the marriage was dissolved.
The ex-husband returned to the island where her daughter Daylín (31) was waiting for him.
The actress had been married three times.
In 1957 she in article mortis with the director Anthony Mann (El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire).
James Stewart and Greta Garbo used to go to her Hollywood mansion.
He told the writer of these lines that, after playing tennis at his house, he was sublimely impressed by La Divina's blue eyes and he remembered the protagonist of Winchester'73
being so tall that on one occasion he couldn't open the door of a room because Stewart stretched out on the floor and his feet brushed the door
.
Montiel and Mann divorced in 1963.
She married producer José Vicente Ramírez Olalla in Rome, but they separated after two months.
Her third husband was the great love of her life, the Majorcan businessman Pepe Tous
, whom she married in 1979 after nine years of living together in a court in Palma de Mallorca.
They both adopted two sons, Thais (43) and Zeus (39).
Sara herself was devastated after becoming a widow in 1992.
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