Carmen Montejo
{{Short description|Cuban actress (1925–2013)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Carmen Montejo
| image = Carmen Montejo actriz (cropped).jpg
| alt =
| caption = Montejo in 2003
| birth_name = María Teresa Sánchez González
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|5|26|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Pinar del Río, Cuba
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|2|25|1925|5|26|mf=y}}
| death_place = Mexico City, Mexico
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1943–2009
}}
Carmen Montejo (born María Teresa Sánchez González; May 26, 1925 – February 25, 2013) was a Cuban and Mexican actress.
Biography
Montejo started her career in radio as a child at the age of 6 in Cuba in a show titled Abuelita Cata transmitted on CMOX. While still in Cuba, she was nicknamed "Muñeca" Sánchez in theatre and because of her golden curls as the Cuban Shirley Temple. She began acting studies in 1939 at Universidad de La Habana under Ludwing Shayovich. After concluding her college studies, her parents offered her a trip to the United States, but instead she chose to go to Mexico for two months.{{Cite news |date=2013-02-10 |title=Celebrará Carmen Montejo su cumpleaños 85 con homenaje en Jalisco |work=La Crónica de Hoy |url=http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2010/508393.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216052139/http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2010/508393.html |archive-date=2013-12-16}}
After arriving in Mexico, she obtained a job in radio claiming to be a famous star in Cuba with a role in the radionovela El diario de Susana Galván. In 1943, she obtained a role in the film Resurrección, directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares, and then Chano Ureta changed her professional name to "Carmen Montejo" when she told him she lived across the Hotel Montejo.{{Cite news |last=Flores |first=Mariana |date=2022-07-14 |title=Bella actriz de la Época de Oro es abuela de comediante que triunfó en "Guerra de Chistes" |work=El Heraldo de México |url=https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/espectaculos/2022/7/14/bella-actriz-de-la-epoca-de-oro-es-abuela-de-comediante-que-triunfo-en-guerra-de-chistes-421641.html }}
In Venezuela, she participated in one of the first films shot in that country titled Páramo (1954). In theater, she obtained the role of Adela in the 1946 production of The House of Bernarda Alba of Federico García Lorca. She co-starred with Virginia Fábregas and was directed by Ricardo Mondragón at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She has also participated in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Trojans.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}
In television, she has performed roles in many telenovelas as well as the sitcom Tres Generaciones with Angélica María and Sasha Sokol in the 1980s.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}
For her work in television, films and theatre, Montejo was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}
Death
Carmen Montejo died on February 25, 2013, in Mexico City.{{cite web |url=http://novelasyseries.univision.com/chismes/article/2013-02-25/murio-carmen-montejo?ftloc=homepage1:wcmWidgetUimHomepageStage&ftpos=homepage1:wcmWidgetUimHomepageStage:3 |title=Murió Carmen Montejo - Univision Novelas y Series |publisher=Novelasyseries.univision.com |date=2013-02-25 |accessdate=2013-02-26 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130412030157/http://novelasyseries.univision.com/chismes/article/2013-02-25/murio-carmen-montejo?ftloc=homepage1:wcmWidgetUimHomepageStage&ftpos=homepage1:wcmWidgetUimHomepageStage:3 |archive-date=2013-04-12 |url-status=dead }} She was 87.
Theater
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Telenovelas
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Films
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Television
- Mujer, casos de la vida real (2002, episode "Un viejo amor") as Margarita
- Tres Generaciones (1989)
References
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- {{cite book |last=Agrasánchez Jr. |first=Rogelio |title=Bellezas del cine mexicano/Beauties of Mexican Cinema |year=2001 |publisher=Archivo Fílmico Agrasánchez |isbn=968-5077-11-8}}
External links
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- {{IMDb name|id=0599269|name=Carmen Montejo}}
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Category:Cuban emigrants to Mexico
Category:Golden Ariel Award winners
Category:Golden Age of Mexican cinema
Category:Mexican film actresses
Category:Mexican radio actresses
Category:Mexican stage actresses
Category:Mexican telenovela actresses
Category:Mexican television actresses
Category:Mexican voice actresses