Jenny McCarthy

Ten years after she was featured as a Playmate, she posed again for Playboy and will appear in the January 2005 issue. Adapted from the article Maria Montez (http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Maria_Montez), from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.. McCarthy wrote and starred in the feature film "Dirty Love" which will premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Her legacy as the only great star from that country remains, and in 1996 the Maria Montez International Airport opened in Barahona. The couple have a son, Evan, who was born May 18, 2002. Much loved by the people of the impoverished Dominican Republic, in her birthplace of Barahona the city changed the name of an existing street to that bearing her name. The couple separated and McCarthy married John Mallory Asher on September , 1999. She was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris where her tombstone reads her theatrical year of birth 1918-1951.

McCarthy had a relationship with Ray Manzella who was also her manager. The 39-year-old Montez died after apparently suffering a heart attack and drowning in her bath. McCarthy is the author of Jen-X (1997), an autobiography, and Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth (2004). She also wrote 3 books, two of which were published, as well as penning a number of poems. She has also appeared in the movies Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), The Stupids (1996), BASEketball (1998), and Scream 3 (2000). There, Maria Montez appeared in several films and a play written by her husband. McCarthy had two short-lived television series; The Jenny McCarthy Show, a variety show, and Jenny, a sitcom. At War's end, the couple had a daughter, Maria Christina, born in Hollywood in 1946 following which they moved to a home in Suresnes, Île-de-France in the eastern suburb of Paris, France.

She became a popular success on the series due to her good looks and sense of humor. While working in Hollywood, she met and married French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911-2001) who had to leave a few days after their wedding to serve in the Free French Forces fighting the Nazis in Europe. In 1995, McCarthy was hired by MTV to co-host a new series Singled Out. Over her career, Maria Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America and five in Europe. She was chosen to be the centerfold in the October 1993 issue and was subsequently named Playmate of the Year in 1994. Ironically, her success as a model led to her quitting college and moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business. Dubbed the "The Queen of Technicolor," she made her film debut in 1940 opposite Johnny Mack Brown, marking a career that saw her much loved by audiences, usually in adventure films as the beautiful damsel in distress. In an attempt to make money for college, she submitted her picture to Playboy magazine. Her screen image was crafted as that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, playing characters dressed in exotic costumes and sparking jewels.

In 1992, McCarthy was studying nursing at Southern Illinois University. Eventually she accepted an offer from a Hollywood film studio. A Catholic, Jenny graduated from Mother McAuley Liberal High School and was named MVP of her softball and field hockey teams. Determined to become a stage actress, she hired an agent and created a résumé that made her several years younger by listing her birth as 1917 in some instances and 1918 in others. She is the second oldest of four daughters. Her marriage lasted several years but in 1939 she ended up in New York City where her exotic looks landed her a job as a model. Jennifer 'Jenny' McCarthy (born November 1, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American model and actress. At a young age, she taught herself to speak English, and in 1932 she married William McFeeters, an American banker working in her seaside home town of Barahona.

The second daughter of 10 children, she was given the name Maria Africa in honor of her diplomat/businessman father's native land, the Spanish Isla de la Palma, on the African continent. Maria Montez was the stage name for Maria Africa Gracia Vidal (June 6, 1912, Barahona, Dominican Republic - September 7, 1951, Paris, France). La Vendetta del corsaro (1951). Amore e sangue (1951).

Il Ladro di Venezia (1950). Portrait d'un assassin (1949). Hans le marin (1948). Siren of Atlantis (1948).

Pirates of Monterey (1947). The Exile (1947). Tangier (1946). Sudan (1945).

Bowery to Broadway (1944). Gypsy Wildcat (1944). Cobra Woman (1944). Follow the Boys (1944).

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944). White Savage (1943). Arabian Nights (1942). The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942).

Bombay Clipper (1942). South of Tahiti (1941). Moonlight in Hawaii (1941). Raiders of the Desert (1941).

That Night in Rio (1941). Lucky Devils (1941). The Invisible Woman (1940). Boss of Bullion City (1940).