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[tina-aumont]

*María Montez II artistic career:

Here I'll post all the known artistic carrer of Tina Aumont's cousin. This post will be updated as may times new info comes, and as you know, any help is always welcomed 😊

1959 - La Hora del Moro (TV series)

1961 - Los jueves de Luchy (TV series - self)

1964-66 - Escala en Hi-Fi (TV series)

1966 - Un Español en la Corte del Rey Arturo (film)

1966 - Escala en Hi-Fi a sus amigos (LP)

1967 - 15 Horcas para un Asesino (film)

1967 - Doce Cuentos y Una Pesadilla: La Muchacha de madera (TV series)

1967-69 - La Taberna de Babín (TV series - self)

1968 - Fábulas: La Gata Mujer (TV series)

1968 - Muñecos a la Luna (stage)

1968 - El Inocente (stage)

1969 - Abuelo (made in Spain) (film)

1969 - ¿Quién soy yo? (stage)

1970 - Un Violinista sobre el tejado (stage)

1970 - Las Gatas tienen Frío (film)

1971 - Valdez is Coming (film)

1971 - Le calde notti de Don Giovanni (film)

1971 - Del dicho al Hecho: Quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere (TV series)

1971 - La Cigüeña dijo Sí (stage)

1971 - Julieta tiene un Desliz (stage)

1971 - Quijotella (stage)

1972 - Las Doce Caras de Eva: Eva Piscis (TV series)

1972 - Novela: Shirley (TV series)

1972 - Play Patricio (stage)

1973 - Im Auftrag von Madame: Miss Lido (TV series)

1973 - BBC Play of the month: The Adventures of Don Quixote (film)

1974-78 - Roy Hart Theatre of London

1970s - Various stage productions in Spain, United Kingdom and France.

1980-83 - news announcer pioneer in "Mundo Vision News" of "Color Vision"

2007 - Art Dramatic teacher in Punta Cana International School

SOURCES:

IMBD & María Montez II site, María Gracia Fiallo linkedin 1 & 2, Teatro.es, Theatricalia

🌟Very special thanks to T, to @thediaryofshanajeanne and to @shannendoherty-fans for all their invaluable help🌟

Eleni xx

[tina-aumont]

Aida Lucía, María Montez & Luchy Vicioso in "El Caribe"

OK I finish for today, haha I promise. I found this article from “El Caribe” talking about Maria and 2 other Dominican Republic child actresses from her time and there are photos and I don’t know which one is Maria so I leave it here for everyone. There is also a bit of biography of them

https://www.elcaribe.com.do/gente/cultura/aida-lucia-maria-montez-y-luchy-vicioso-tres-talentos-dominicanos/

The skin that gave life to the name of the actress María África Gracia Vidal was her niece, María Gracia, who apart from sharing the name, had the same talent as her aunt: acting. The young Maria Gracia received a scholarship from the Educational Credit Foundation, with which she was able to travel to Spain to study dramatic art. A local newspaper published in 1971 the triumph that this talented actress was having in that country, occupying important roles in plays. Her success was so great that the Spanish press devoted several full pages to her hard artistic work. Shee worked in several films, one of them American, in which she participated with the American actor Burt Lancaster. She made two co-productions in Italy, together with the Italian actress, Ira de Fustermberg, titled ‘Los Amores de don Juan’ and in the film 'Las gatas tenen frío’, in Spain, occupying the second role. The plays in which she participated were 'Julieta has a slip’, by Julio Mathías and 'The stork said yes’, by Carlos Llopis. Also, in 'The Innocent’ and 'Who am I’, among other films.

- El Caribe, 24th December 1960.

[tina-aumont]

♀️International Women's Day♀️

This site is for...

María Antónia García Martín: Spanish migrant woman who went to Cuba where she met her husband, she settled in Garafia, had six children.

Regla María Teresa Vidal Recio was a Dominican loving mother to her 10 children and she took care of two more children from her husband. She had a very special relationship with her daughter María from whom received always beautiful letters and she read them numerous times until she learned them by heart. Her bond to her daughter was really strong they seemed to comunicate by telepathy.

María África Gracia Vidal was a Dominican actress who found fame and fortune in Hollywood. She came from a rural background, was self-thaught about English language and she knew since she was little, that she was born to triumph. She funded her own fan-club, wrote poems and even a song. She was also very loving and protective to her younger sisters and was a very loving mother.

Adita Gracia Vidal was María's younger sister, little is known about her, maybe the was the most shy of all the Gracia Sisters, but she travelled to Hollywood with them to try an artistic carrer as an actress.

Consuelo Gracia Vidal travelled with her sisters to Hollywood and stayed there under María's wing. She acted in one film "Pirates of Monterey" but found English quite difficult and became model. She was the mother of four.

Luz Gracia Vidal was the sweetest of all the Gracia Sisters and when María was away filming, she always took care of her niece Tina. She was married to Jean Roy and had three kids who lost their father in a killing and she took care of them by herself. She never remarried.

Teresa Gracia Vidal was a successful model in her adoptive country, France, as her sisters, she came from a rural area but had a very successful carrer in a foreign country. She settled there and had a daughter, Raïna Paris. Besides of modelling, Teresita tried to succeed in the cinema industry. Today we know she acted in one film "El Andén", filmed in Spain. She was a divorced mum.

Maria Christina Aumont Gracia was María's daughter, she lost her mother when she was just five years old, but she was loved and being cared with her dad, aunties, uncles, cousins... until she was sent away to a schoolboards, then she married at 17 and had a stillborn babygirl when she was 18. Although her personal life wasn't a fairylate, she managed to find happiness for a time and had a very successful carrer as an actress and also a model in Italy, her adoptive country. In 1969 Tina had to have an abortion in secret as it was illegal in France and in 1971 she signed a manifesto (risking jail) in order to decriminalize the right to abortion which until then was illegal in France.

María Montez Gracia Fiallo is named after her Dominican Auntie, as she was born some weeks after her auntie passed away. Just like her cousin Tina, María II lost her dad when she was five, and in her teens she travelled with her mum to Spain, the country of her ancestors, there she had a very successful carrer as a TV actress and performer first, but then she followed a cinema acting carrer and in the Seventies she went to live in a Comunity first in England and then in France where they had a specific stage methodology. She gave up her acting career to take care of her daughter, who was born with Down's Syndrome.

Maria Isabel Gracia is María's niece, and she worked in Puerto Rico and Chile as a model, actress and even did some work behind the cameras. She has, at least, one daughter.

Raïna Paris Manuel Gracia is Teresita's daughter. She has worked as a TV actress, stage actress, producer, documentaries director... but also she's been studing the spiritual side of the humanity and she's written books, poems and makes some speeches about the subject, she also makes some workshops and tarot readings. Being a single child, sometimes has been difficult for her as all the family burden was on her.

Dominic Fuentes Gracia is Maria Isabel's daughter. Just as her auntie Raïna, Dominic has worked on TV and cinema as an actress, but nowadays makes workshops and speeches about spirituality. She is a divorced mum but has a beautiful relationship with her ex-husband.

♀️💜✊🏽

In this International Women's Day I honour all these strong and brave women who made (and still do) a wonderful family that has spread around the world but has a strong bond.

All these women are different, some were rich, some were poor, some had lots of kids, some had none, some had lovely families, others were just divorced women, but all of them had to fight for their rights, their lives and their truth.

To all of them, the ones who came first and the ones who'll came later, I honour you.

We fight every day ♀️💜✊🏽

Eleni xx

[tina-aumont]

I think Tina was more beautiful than her cousin Maria II, but at the same time, she had the pressure of being Maria Montez' daughter. Maria II didn't have this, so she could act, sing, dance... perform. On TV and stage, while Tina did "only" some modelling and screen acting. I think if Tina hadn't had the pressure of fame, would have been more happy, as her cousin Maria II... Great blog BTW!

Hi Anon!!

Thank you very much for your comment.

I personnally think both are pretty, maybe Tina is more beautiful and María is cuter, but I absolutely agree with you in the fact that María was much happier than Tina and had less pressure, Tina had the weight of her mum's name on her shoulders, Tina came from a broken family were she felt rejected from her step-mum and she married just to get away from that house; María had lovely parents who helped her with her carrer, she had a scholarship and was able to travel to Spain to improve her acting, so yes, María had all the skills to sing, act, perform on TV and on stage, even on cinema and she did little modelling too cause she was really good looking and had talent.

Tina also, had bad luck because I guess, of all the pressure she had, she took hard drugs and she got caught so in her darker days she couldn't act because nobody wanted her, she felt really lonely whereas María had a husband and two beloved children. Tina wanted to become mother but sadly she couldn't.

I always think Tina deserved much better in life, she took some really bad choices that cost her personal health, relationships and her carrer. She paid a really high prize for her mistakes...