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She appeared in nearly fifty films and recorded around songs in five different languages. Montiel was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of La Mancha in Throughout her career, Montiel's personal life was the subject of constant media attention in the Spanish-speaking world.

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She was married four times and adopted two children. In April , accompanied by her mother, she moved to Mexico and starred in a dozen films there in less than five years, including Women's Prison , Red Fury and Cinnamon Skin Hollywood came calling afterwards, and she was introduced to United States moviegoers in the film Vera Cruz , directed by Robert Aldrich.

She was offered the standard seven-year contract at Columbia Pictures , which she refused, afraid of Hollywood's typecasting policies for Hispanics. Instead she freelanced at Warner Bros. Initially, the songs in the film were going to be sung by a professional singer who would dub Montiel, but due to the low budget, she eventually sang the songs herself.

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Following this success, in June she signed with producer Benito Perojo a lavish contract to make four films in three years, [ 14 ] being the first of them The Violet Seller , a large-budget international co-production musical film. All this made her a film and singing international superstar. The film Variety was banned in Beijing in In , she announced her retirement from movies, as she become dissatisfied with the movie industry and the overt nudity in films, [ 21 ] but continued performing live, recording and starring on her own variety television shows in Spain.

In November , singer Alaska who forms the Spanish pop group Fangoria with Nacho Canut , invited Montiel to record a track sharing vocals with her for the re-release of the band's album Absolutamente. They recorded the title track "Absolutamente" as a duet. The music video for the song was released on 18 December