Maria Montez

Adapted from the article Maria Montez (http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Maria_Montez), from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.. Today O'Neal lives in New York City, where she works hard at staying sober as she struggled throughout her life with substance abuse problems, like her mother, her father, her brother actor Griffin O'Neal, and her half-brother Redmond, whose mother is Farrah Fawcett. Her legacy as the only great star from that country remains, and in 1996 the Maria Montez International Airport opened in Barahona. The book includes the unhappily ever after story of her marriage to the tempermental tennis star McEnroe, their divorce, and their struggle with child custody. 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. O'Neal wrote a book A Paper Life (ISBN 0060540974) in which she made allegations of child molestation and other crimes committed against her by associates of her parents and famous Hollywood stars, including Melanie Griffith, her father drug's dealer (with the complicity of her father), and that at age 12 she was kissed by a 17 year old Michael Jackson. She was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris where her tombstone reads her theatrical year of birth 1918-1951. They have three children: Kevin, Sean, and Emily.

The 39-year-old Montez died after apparently suffering a heart attack and drowning in her bath. She went on to become the first wife of tennis superstar John McEnroe. She also wrote 3 books, two of which were published, as well as penning a number of poems. She also played a starring role in The Bad News Bears and Little Darlings (1980). There, Maria Montez appeared in several films and a play written by her husband. In 1974, she became the youngest person ever to receive a regular Academy Award, winning Best Supporting Actress honors for her performance in Paper Moon. 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. He and former long-time love, Farrah Fawcett, have recently reunited after many years of separation.

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. Father Ryan is struggling with a form of leukemia. Over her career, Maria Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America and five in Europe. Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, and the daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal and actress Joanna Moore who starred with Elvis Presley in "Follow That Dream." Moore died in 1997 of lung cancer. 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. Her screen image was crafted as that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, playing characters dressed in exotic costumes and sparking jewels.

Eventually she accepted an offer from a Hollywood film studio. 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. 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. 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).