Maria Montez
- Category : Entertainment-Actor-Actress
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 5/2 - Heretical / Hermit
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Separation 1
Biography
Dominican actress who was an exotic Hollywood leading lady seen mainly in hokum adventures. Her debut came with the 1941 film, "The Invisible Woman," but she went on to do other films such as "Cobra Woman" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," both in 1944.
She was educated at a convent in Santa Cruz de Teverite in the Canary Islands. Coming from a wealthy family with large vineyards, she spoke French, English, Italian and Spanish and, after graduating with a B.S., joined her father at his post in Ireland.
She married a wealthy Irish banker who was twice her age. She bored of the marriage after two years and after she had it annulled by the Roman Catholic church, moved to New York on 3 July 1939. Montez married Jean Pierre Aumont on 13 July 1943 and had one daughter, Maria Christina, on 14 February 1946.
She died young and under mysterious circumstances as she drowned in her bathtub, allegedly from a heart attack, on 7 September 1951.