NewsWhore
05-16-2012, 05:30 PM
The life story of Dominican actress Maria Montez is being brought to the stage by the Alta Escena theater group at the Sala Ravelo of the National Theater on 31 May 2012 through Thursday, 7 June.
Evening shows are at 8:30 from Monday to Saturday and at 6:30pm on Sunday. Irmgard Karoline Becker will star as Maria Montez, the Dominican Republic's first actress to gain fame as a Hollywood motion picture star.
The production is part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of her birth.
Amarilis Rodriguez will play the role of Maria's mother, Olga Valdez, and Judith Rodriguez will portray her cousins. Actor Luis Dantes will also play several male roles. The play is directed by Bienvenido Miranda and the script and direction of the production are by Luis Dantes.
In the 1940s, the Barahona-born Montez starred as an exotic beauty in some of the first Technicolor adventure films attired in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels, and was known as "The Queen of Technicolor." Throughout her career, she starred in 26 films, most made in the United States.
Her most famous were Arabian Nights (1942), White Savage (1943), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944), Cobra Woman (1944), Gypsy Wildcat (1944), Sudan (1945), Pirates of Monterey (1947) and The Exile (1948).
She died at the age of 39 in Paris, drowning in her bath after suffering a suspected heart attack.
The Barahona airport was named in her honor.
For more on upcoming events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar
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Evening shows are at 8:30 from Monday to Saturday and at 6:30pm on Sunday. Irmgard Karoline Becker will star as Maria Montez, the Dominican Republic's first actress to gain fame as a Hollywood motion picture star.
The production is part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of her birth.
Amarilis Rodriguez will play the role of Maria's mother, Olga Valdez, and Judith Rodriguez will portray her cousins. Actor Luis Dantes will also play several male roles. The play is directed by Bienvenido Miranda and the script and direction of the production are by Luis Dantes.
In the 1940s, the Barahona-born Montez starred as an exotic beauty in some of the first Technicolor adventure films attired in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels, and was known as "The Queen of Technicolor." Throughout her career, she starred in 26 films, most made in the United States.
Her most famous were Arabian Nights (1942), White Savage (1943), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944), Cobra Woman (1944), Gypsy Wildcat (1944), Sudan (1945), Pirates of Monterey (1947) and The Exile (1948).
She died at the age of 39 in Paris, drowning in her bath after suffering a suspected heart attack.
The Barahona airport was named in her honor.
For more on upcoming events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#19)