Maria Montez : Actress Height, Weight, Age, Movies, Biography, News, Images & Videos

María África Gracia Vidal, known as The Queen of Technicolor, was a Dominican motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films

Maria Montez Movies and TV Shows

• 15 Scaffolds for a Murderer [15 December 1967]

  Horse thieves are wrongfully accused of rape and murder. They flee the bloodthirsty lynch mob, taking refuge in an abandoned fort.

• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves [1944]

  A boy prince, raised by forty thieves, takes revenge on the Mongol invaders who murdered his father and stole his kingdom.

• Alma Cigana [Roy William Neill]

• Alma Zíngara [Roy William Neill]

• Arabian Nights [25 December 1942]

  Two brothers vie for the title of Caliph of Baghdad and the hand of Scheherazade the dancer. When the dancer is told that he she will marry the Caliph, there is a coup.

• Au sud de tahiti [George Waggner]

• Bombay Clipper [11 January 1942]

  During his honeymoon, a reporter is caught in a mystery involving a clipper en route to Bombay.

• Boss of Bullion City [1 March 1940]

  When a town is controlled by a treacherous outlaw, it takes an outsider lawman to restore the peace.

• Bowery to Broadway [3 November 1944]

  Rival Irish showmen (Jack Oakie, Donald Cook) spend 30 years going from Bowery nightclubs to vaudeville to Broadway.

• Buck Privates [31 January 1941 (USA)]

  Buck Privates is a 1941 musical military comedy film that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bona fide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The comedy team made two more service comedies before the United States entered the war.

• Cobra Woman [12 May 1944 (USA)]

  A man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

• Follow the Boys [25 April 1944]

  A Hollywood star (George Raft) organizes wartime shows: W.C. Fields shoots pool; Orson Welles saws Marlene Dietrich in half.

• Forty Burglars [14 September 1928]

• Gypsy Wildcat [1944]

  A king's messenger (Jon Hall) protects a Gypsy dancer (Maria Montez) from a wicked baron who knows her secret.

• I pirati di Monterey [Alfred L. Werker]

• La conquista de un reino [Max Ophüls]

• La reina de Cobra [Robert Siodmak]

• La Salvaje Blanca [Arthur Lubin]

• La sauvagesse blanche [Arthur Lubin]

• La vengeance du corsaire [Primo Zeglio]

• Le Voleur de Venise [John Brahm]

• Love and Blood [5 April 1951]

  Love and Blood is a 1951 Italian-German action melodrama film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Maria Montez in one of her last roles. It was also known as City of Violence. The film's art direction was by Max Mellin and Rolf Zehetbauer.

• Lucky Devils [3 January 1941]

  Lucky Devils is a 1941 film from director Lew Landers. Maria Montez has a small role.

• Máscara de um Assassino [Bernard Roland]

• Moonlight in Hawaii [21 November 1941]

  Moonlight in Hawaii is a 1941 American musical film comedy starring Jane Frazee. Maria Montez has a small role, with her hair dyed blonde.

• Mystery of Marie Roget [23 April 1942]

  Edgar Allan Poe's Paris sleuth, Dupin (Patric Knowles), ties a missing singer (Maria Montez) to a mutilated corpse.

• Nights and Loves of Don Juan [1971]

  Don Juan causes jealousies among the most powerful Spanish families.

• Pardon My Sarong [7 August 1942 (USA)]

  Two Chicago bus drivers (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) land on a Pacific isle with natives and crooks.

• Pirates of Monterey [1 December 1947]

  The Spanish Royalists attempt to overthrow the Mexican Presideo at Monterey with a Yankee from Missouri contributing.

• Portrait of an Assassin [1949]

• Raiders of the Desert [18 July 1941]

  Adventurers Dick Manning (Richard Arlen) and Andy McCoy (Andy Devine) stow away on a vessel that takes them to the Middle East. On board they meet the pretty Alice Evans (Linda Hayes), who has accepted a job with Jones (George M. Carleton), a philanthropist who has erected a modern city in the middle of the desert. Unfortunately, a powerful sheik is threatening to attack if Jones doesn't surrender the city, and the stowaways find themselves in the middle of a war.… MORE

• Revenge of the Pirates [18 October 1951]

  Revenge of the Pirates is a 1951 Italian adventure film directed by Primo Zeglio. It was the last movie of Maria Montez. It is also known as The Pirates Revenge and Duel Before the Mast.

• Ritratto di un assassino [Bernard Roland]

• Schatten über Neapel [20 April 1951]

  Shadows Over Naples is a 1951 German-Italian crime film directed by Hans Wolff and starring Maria Montez, Massimo Serato, and Hans Söhnker. A separate Italian version Love and Blood was also released.

• Siren of Atlantis [January 1949]

  Two French legionnaires, Lt. Andre St. Avit (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and Capt. Jean Morhange (Dennis O'Keefe), are tracking a lost expedition when they are captured and brought to the most unexpected of places -- the city of Atlantis. There, Andre falls in love with Queen Antinea (Maria Montez), a great beauty with a heart of ice, who is prone to murdering the men she takes for her lovers. While his colleague is blind to the danger they're both in, Jean makes a desperate attempt at escape.… MORE

• South of Tahiti [17 October 1941]

  Three jungle adventurers are captivated by a beautiful native princess on a remote Pacific island.

• Sudan [18 April 1945]

  A desert pickpocket (Jon Hall), his sidekick and an escaped slave (Turhan Bey) help an incognito queen (Maria Montez) in danger.

• Tangier [6 June 1946]

  A war-weary newsman (Robert Paige) joins a Spanish dancer (Maria Montez) hunting down a Nazi puppet in North Africa.

• That Night in Rio [11 April 1941 (USA)]

  In this musical, Larry Martin (Don Ameche) entertains crowds with his skillful impersonations of airline czar Baron Manuel Duarte (also Ameche). When Duarte and his wife visit Larry during his act, they're also impressed -- so much so that they hire him to impersonate Duarte to save his airline and ward off his competition. However, Larry finds himself drawn to Duarte's wife, Baroness Cecilia (Alice Faye), much to the chagrin and confusion of his girlfriend (Carmen Miranda).… MORE

• The Exile [17 October 1947 (USA)]

  In 17th-century England, Charles II (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie (Paule Croset) and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram (Henry Daniell) and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.… MORE

• The Invisible Woman [27 December 1940]

  Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.

• The Thief of Venice [1950]

  The Thief of Venice or Il Ladro di Venezia is a 1950 Italian film directed by John Brahm. The US title was "The Thief of Venice". It was released in the US two years after being made.

• Valdez Is Coming [9 April 1971]

  When rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher) hoodwinks local lawman Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) into shooting an innocent man, Valdez is remorseful and tries to take up a collection for the widow. Tanner won't hear of it, however, and punishes Valdez by driving him into the desert with a cross strapped to his back. Valdez is freed by one of Tanner's henchmen (Richard Jordan) and, after convalescing, begins waging a one-man war against Tanner, picking off his men with his trusty Sharps rifle.… MORE

• White Savage [23 April 1943 (USA)]

  Princess Tahia rules her tropical island well, but her love for shark hunter Kaloe and a clutch of treasure-seeking scoundrels cause many problems. Forbidden passion, skulduggery and adventure in paradise - and in Technicolor.

• Wicked City [16 November 1949 (Paris)]

  A Canadian sailor (Jean-Pierre Aumont) becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman (Maria Montez) in Marseille.