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tina-aumont · 3 months

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~* Family *~

These days I'm working on finding information from the Gracia/Montez Family starting by Tina's great-grandparents, her grandparents and then her mum and sisters and her cousin María.

Everything I'm finding I'm posting it here in this page called FAMILY.

Please notice that this page is under construction but little by little I will be adding biographies and timelines (when available) from the Gracia/Montez Family as I think it's a very big and interesting family with great history that deserves to be known by the general public.

Enjoy and remember that anything that you find or know is always welcomed (and credited) here!!

Eleni xxx

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locuradelibrosblog · 2 years

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Gracias @gemmaentrelecturas ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 ・・・ #NoDecepcionesATuPadre @carmechaparro @espasaeditorial La literatura gore, atrapa y, en mi humilde caso, me trauma 🤦‍♀️ A quien le guste este tipo de novelas, esta es la suya 👏👏👏 La escritora nos reta a seguir leyendo tras describirnos la primera víctima, Nina Vidal, en una escena tétrica y perturbadora, cargada de sangre y violencia. Juega con el terror psicológico del lector, ¿estaba drogada mientras la torturaban o despierta? Se nos priva del consuelo de saber la verdad, hay que esperar a los resultados del forense, nos deja sumidos en la incertidumbre. «La fascinación sobrepasa el asco». La descripción de los hechos nos coloca en los momentos de angustia, somos espectadores de primera fila, sufrimos furia e impotencia ante el miedo de cada una de estas mujeres que padecen a lo largo de las páginas de esta novela. Estremece, porque no está alejada de la realidad, la esclavitud sexual existe, los datos sobrecogen, millones de niñas y niños son vendidos, secuestrados, engañados, las cifras son demoledoras. «En la pobreza no hay libertad». El miedo, la rabia, la venganza, la frustración de la policía al encontrar tanta traba política para terminar con esta barbarie, estremecen al lector, lo dejan vulnerable ante las páginas que van cayendo, una historia cruel. Pero no es ficción, la mayoría de estas breves historias de mujeres se adapta a la realidad como un guante, padres que venden a sus hijas para alimentar al resto de su progenie, mujeres traídas con promesas de trabajos que no existen, novios sacados de la ficción romántica que son ganchos de estas mafias. Los abusos y torturas descritos a menores para quitarlas su identidad, volverlas sumisas, muñecas de trapo, se ajustan a la realidad descritas por muchas adolescentes cuando son liberadas. ...blog #gemmaentrelecturas📖 #encuentrosconescritoresll #encuentroszoomclubdelecturall #pepalocuradelibros #clubdelecturall #librosrecomendados (en Club de Lectura LL) https://www.instagram.com/clubdelecturall/p/CZB0KEMrK6h/?utm_medium=tumblr

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tina-aumont · 2 months

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♀️International Women's Day♀️

This site is for...

María Antónia García Martín: Spanish migrant woman who went to Cuba where she met her husband, she settled in Garafia, had six children.

Regla María Teresa Vidal Recio was a Dominican loving mother to her 10 children and she took care of two more children from her husband. She had a very special relationship with her daughter María from whom received always beautiful letters and she read them numerous times until she learned them by heart. Her bond to her daughter was really strong they seemed to comunicate by telepathy.

María África Gracia Vidal was a Dominican actress who found fame and fortune in Hollywood. She came from a rural background, was self-thaught about English language and she knew since she was little, that she was born to triumph. She funded her own fan-club, wrote poems and even a song. She was also very loving and protective to her younger sisters and was a very loving mother.

Adita Gracia Vidal was María's younger sister, little is known about her, maybe the was the most shy of all the Gracia Sisters, but she travelled to Hollywood with them to try an artistic carrer as an actress.

Consuelo Gracia Vidal travelled with her sisters to Hollywood and stayed there under María's wing. She acted in one film "Pirates of Monterey" but found English quite difficult and became model. She was the mother of four.

Luz Gracia Vidal was the sweetest of all the Gracia Sisters and when María was away filming, she always took care of her niece Tina. She was married to Jean Roy and had three kids who lost their father in a killing and she took care of them by herself. She never remarried.

Teresa Gracia Vidal was a successful model in her adoptive country, France, as her sisters, she came from a rural area but had a very successful carrer in a foreign country. She settled there and had a daughter, Raïna Paris. Besides of modelling, Teresita tried to succeed in the cinema industry. Today we know she acted in one film "El Andén", filmed in Spain. She was a divorced mum.

Maria Christina Aumont Gracia was María's daughter, she lost her mother when she was just five years old, but she was loved and being cared with her dad, aunties, uncles, cousins... until she was sent away to a schoolboards, then she married at 17 and had a stillborn babygirl when she was 18. Although her personal life wasn't a fairylate, she managed to find happiness for a time and had a very successful carrer as an actress and also a model in Italy, her adoptive country. In 1969 Tina had to have an abortion in secret as it was illegal in France and in 1971 she signed a manifesto (risking jail) in order to decriminalize the right to abortion which until then was illegal in France.

María Montez Gracia Fiallo is named after her Dominican Auntie, as she was born some weeks after her auntie passed away. Just like her cousin Tina, María II lost her dad when she was five, and in her teens she travelled with her mum to Spain, the country of her ancestors, there she had a very successful carrer as a TV actress and performer first, but then she followed a cinema acting carrer and in the Seventies she went to live in a Comunity first in England and then in France where they had a specific stage methodology. She gave up her acting career to take care of her daughter, who was born with Down's Syndrome.

Maria Isabel Gracia is María's niece, and she worked in Puerto Rico and Chile as a model, actress and even did some work behind the cameras. She has, at least, one daughter.

Raïna Paris Manuel Gracia is Teresita's daughter. She has worked as a TV actress, stage actress, producer, documentaries director... but also she's been studing the spiritual side of the humanity and she's written books, poems and makes some speeches about the subject, she also makes some workshops and tarot readings. Being a single child, sometimes has been difficult for her as all the family burden was on her.

Dominic Fuentes Gracia is Maria Isabel's daughter. Just as her auntie Raïna, Dominic has worked on TV and cinema as an actress, but nowadays makes workshops and speeches about spirituality. She is a divorced mum but has a beautiful relationship with her ex-husband.

♀️💜✊🏽

In this International Women's Day I honour all these strong and brave women who made (and still do) a wonderful family that has spread around the world but has a strong bond.

All these women are different, some were rich, some were poor, some had lots of kids, some had none, some had lovely families, others were just divorced women, but all of them had to fight for their rights, their lives and their truth.

To all of them, the ones who came first and the ones who'll came later, I honour you.

We fight every day ♀️💜✊🏽

Eleni xx

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tina-aumont · 4 months

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Beautiful photos of María Montez and her sisters.

These photos come from the personal archive of Armando Gracia Sanfiel who gave them to Antonio Perez Arnay who published them in the biographical book of María Montez "La Reina del Tecnicolor" (Editorial Filmoteca Canaria, 1995).

Armando Gracia Sanfiel was Aquilino Gracia García's son, and Aquilino was María's uncle (her dad's brother), so Armando was María's cousin.

María sent these three photos to her cousin Armando as they kept contact through letters, Armando was living in Madrid and he didn't know anything about María's private life or from his Dominican family, he just knew from his uncle Isidoro and from his family from La Palma and Teruel.

María and her cousin Armando first reached contact when he sent her a letter when she was living in Hollywood telling her he was her cousin as their dads were brothers and from that day María started sending him letters with photos and she was really interested about her family in Spain and asked him lots of questions about them.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sending me these photos and the information that comes with them.

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tina-aumont · 24 days

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Adita, Lucita, María and Consuelo pictured in 1944 for the Universal Pictures.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sending me this gem ✨

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tina-aumont · 3 months

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I want to thank my friend @74paris who contacted the Canarian Authorities and sent him these digitalized photos from the exhibit that Garafia and La Palma had about Maria Montez back in 2012 (more than ten years ago!!)

Maria Montez dad, Isidoro Gracia García was born in Garafia (La Palma) in April 3rd 1873 and by 1904 he settled in Barahona (Dominican Republic) with his brother Joaquín. They left Carany Islands due to economic struggles and they dreamt for a better future, which eventualy came.

These photos show Joaquín (left) and Isidoro (right) pictured in Barahona in 1908. Next we can see Isidoro Gracia pictured in Barahona in 1906. Under these two photos, Isidoro is pictured, again in Barahona, this time in 1909 and the last photo shows Joaquín in an undated photo, but my guessing is that it was taken in Barahona as well aroung the time the other photos were taken (1906-1909).

These photos were displayed in "María Montez, de la Palma a Hollywood" exhibition celebrated in Garafia and La Palma during the celebrations of MAría Montez birthday centenary.

Joaquín Gracia Anadón, who was born in Estercuel (Teruel-Aragón-Spain), in 23rd May 1841 and María Antónia García Martín, who was born in Garafia, (La Palma, Canary Islands) in 28th September 1842 were also remembered in this exhibition.

This beautiful photo taken in 1942 celebrating Doña Justa's birthday was also in the exhibition. Doña Justa Recio Sánchez was María Montez granny and Regla María Teresa Vidal Recio's mother. In this photo we can see at the left Adita with her mother, and at the right we can see Consuelo. In the front row, at the right we can see a very young Teresita. It's beautiful to see that in this exhibition, also the maternal side of María was important although there were no Canarian roots in them (as far as we know).

María Montez most intimal side was also shown in this exhibition, here we can see her pictured in 1943 at her wedding day to Jean-Pierre Aumont.

While Jean-Pierre Aumont was away fighting in II World War and María was at the highest point of her career, she invited her sisters to Hollywood as she wanted them to have a successful career. Although all of them tried, only Teresita (not shown here as she was still very young) succeed but as a High Couture model working in France in the 50s hired exclusively by Vogue magazine.

These photos are from the banners displayed in "María Montez, de la Palma a Hollywood" exhibition held in La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands) in 2012, they show María's family, sisters, daughter Tina and places where her family came from. These photos come from this blog: Personalidades Garafianas

These screencaps from this video show two banners from the exhibition "María Montez: De La Palma a Hollywood" with Maria Montez and Jean Pierre Aumont and Maria's dad Isidoro, her granny María Antónia and on the left Isidoro and his brother Joaquín.

The other screencaps show Joaquín Gracia and María Antónia García's home in Garafia where Isidoro, Joaquín and their siblings were born.

This house is still standing, now I wonder... could a María Montez museum will be made here and be permanent so everybody could visit it? I vote for it, but I don't know if it will ever me made, it would be beautiful if ever that happen...

Here you have the Villa de Garafia website where is explained the exhibition.

Photos shown here are courtesy of Armando Gracia Sanfiel, the Spanish cousin María was always writing. He gave these photos to Antonio Perez Arnay to be published in his book "María Montez La Reina del Tecnicolor" (Filmoteca Canaria, 1995).

Banners courtesy of "Cabildo de la Palma", the governing and administrative body of La Palma.

Muchas gracias de nuevo @74paris por todo el trabajo que has hecho contactando con la administración del Cabildo de la Palma para que te enviaran este material tan precioso y muchas gracias por compartirlo conmigo para que lo publique.

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tina-aumont · 3 months

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Consuelo Gracia Vidal - aka Julia Andre - in "Pirates of Monterey" film with co-star Rod Cameron (film directed by Alfred L. Werker, 1947).

This is the only film she took part in as it was difficult for her speak in English although she went to classes. At the time of filming she was at the first stages of her pregnancy from her first child Ken Carter Gracia by Universal publicist Kenneth Carter of whom she married in August 1946.

Here you can watch full film in English with great quality (Maria Montez screencaps will come too).

#Consuelo Gracia Vidal #Julia Andre #1947 Consuelo #Pirates of Monterey #1947 Pirates of Monterey #Alfred Werker #Rod Cameron #Alfred L. Werker #Montez Family #Gracia Family #actress #model #my screencaps

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tina-aumont · 1 month

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Ya que viste la pelicula sobre la bella María Montez, es muy fascinante que Dominic haga de su tia-abuela Consuelo! Y quien son las otras actrices que actúan como las hermanas? Puedes poner aunque sea una foto de cada una de ellas? Eran tan bellas, me pregunto si en la peli también! Gracias por este fantástico tributo a todas ellas!

Hola Anon!!

Muchas gracias por tu pregunta!!

Encuentro fascinante que Dominic Fuentes Gracia haga de su tía-abuela Consuelo Gracia Vidal, seguro que investigó sobre su propia família y aprendió muchas cosas, sería interesante saber qué sintió y cómo se sintió mientras hacía el rodaje...

Aquí te pongo a Dominic y a las otras actrices que salen en el filme:

[Consuelo Gracia Vidal y Dominic Fuentes Gracia]

[Mariela Encarnación y Teresita Gracia Vidal]

[Lisbeth Santos y Adita Gracia Vidal]

Estas son las hermanas que salen en la película y en los títulos de crédito, curiosamente no sale Lucita, pero luego salen dos actrices, Camila Issa y Cielo Abraham que hacen de hermana 1 y hermana 2.

Finalmente he encontrado esta foto donde salen las hermanas de María Montez en la película y su mamá (interpretada por Maridalia Hernández). Supuestamente la niña pequeña sería Teresita, pero en la película la interpreta la actriz de la izquierda de la imagen (si no me equivoco).

Me parece muy curioso que queriendo ser una película que trate de la vida de María Montez, salgan unas hermanas, pero no todas, y de hecho no sale ningún hermano, pero claro, me imagino que no puede poner a todo el mundo en el filme y sólo han puesto los personajes más importantes, pero me extraña que Lucita no esté, ya que todas las hermanas estaban muy unidas...

Esto es todo lo que te puedo contar por ahora, aquí en este post tienes las capturas de pantalla que hice de Dominic Fuentes y alguna más, muchas gracias por tu pregunta!! :)

Eleni

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tina-aumont · 2 months

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Two page spread in a US magazine from 1944 about the arriving in Hollywood of María's younger sisters Adita, aged 19; Consuelo, aged 18 & Lucita aged 17 (according to the magazine).

The beautiful sisters had lots of good times together singing the old folk song mother taught them and even making some fortune tellings by reading the cards!

Ebay.

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tina-aumont · 1 year

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Tina Aumont's Family Tree

Sources:

Jean-Pierre Aumont family tree (you can go up to 1787)

Árbol Genealógico de Isidoro Gracia García (you can go up to 1465!)

Regla María Teresa Vidal at Geni, at Familysearch and at Ancestry.

Dos Actrices Internacionales descendientes de un Luño (Plenas Zaragoza 14.12.2016)

"De María África a María Montez, un mito en Technicolor" documentary directed by Jesús Reyes Mota, 2014.

La Exposición de María Montez viaja a Gran Canaria (El Apurón, 21.11.2013)

Personalidades Garafianas (12.2012)

Los orígenes turolenses y canarios de la actriz de Hollywood María Montez by María Victoria Hernández Pérez. Cabildo de la Palma, 2012.

"María: Montez Su Vida", edición especial del Centenario, book written by Margarita Vicens de Morales, Dirección General de Cine de la República Dominicana, 2012.

"Enrique Meneses, un flash" article in Spanish from Orsay magazine wriiten by José Luís Perdomo, 2011.

Los Orígenes palmeros de la actriz María Montez (October/November 2009)

Las raíces Turolenses de una diva (Heraldo, 26.10.2008)

"María Montez La Reina del Tecnicolor", book written by António Pérez Arnay and Terenci Moix, Filmoteca Canaria 1995.

*Very special thanks to Dominic Fuentes, @74paris and @shannendoherty-fans for their help.

If you know any details or have some photos from the family that aren't posted here, please send them and I will credit you. Remember that this family tree is growing as more info comes to light.

Thank you very much!

Eleni xxx

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tina-aumont · 3 months

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Beautiful photos of Montez Sisters sent to their Spanish cousin Armando Gracia Sanfiel.

On the left we can see the four sisters: Adita, Consuelo, Teresita and Lucita's beautiful photos they sent to their Spanish cousin Armando Gracia Sanfiel. Adita, Consuelo and Lucita's photos where sent through María Montez in 1944 as she was the one from the family who wrote long and loving letters to him, as far as I know they never met in person but they kept a beautiful correspondence.

On the right we can see a photo of María taken in 1941 and sent to her cousin Armando. Maria went to Canary Islands in 1930 when her father didn't want she got married to William McFeeters, who was 20 years her senior, and the only thing she knew about Spain was Tenerife, that's why she always wrote long letters to her cousin Armando (who lived in Madrid) asking him about Teruel and Canary Islands as she wanted to know the origins of her ancestors and the diversity of landscapes and life Spain had.

Teresita's photo was taken in 1952 when she travelled to Madrid to make a film and the beautiful thing is that she met her cousin Armando and gave him this beautiful photo taken by Ibañez, a Spanish photographer who always took photos of the cinema stars back in the day.

These beautiful photos arrived to me by mail, and I thank @74paris for sending me these very special gems which are copies from the originals. These photos were given to Antonio Perez Arnay by Armando Gracia Sanfiel as they were friends and Armando knew Antonio wanted to write a book about María Montez, which eventually did in 1995, however in the first book edition, these photos were not included, but Antonio Perez Arnay kept them and wanted to publish them in a second edition of his book "María Montez, La Reina del Tecnicolor" to celebrate María's birth centennary. Sadly Antonio passed away the 1st January 2012 and could never fulfill his dream. Instead, these photos were displayed in María Montez exhibit in Canary Islands back in 2012 but that's not what Antonio wanted...

My friend @74paris went to this exhibit and saw these great and beautiful photos and after long letters, long calls and lots of adventures he could have a copy of them for him and another one for me!! I feel really lucky, happy and fortunate to have them. They are a treasure and I will keep them such as that.

Mil gracias @74paris por este precioso presente que me has enviado, me siento muy afortunada y feliz por tenerlas, gracias por las mil y una gestiones que has hecho para obtenerlas. Te lo agradezco de todo corazón!! Son un gran tesoro!!

Eleni xoxoxo

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tina-aumont · 3 months

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1944 Montez sisters

In 1944 upon their arrival in Hollywood, Maria younger sisters Consuelo, Adita and Lucita were received by her elder sister and under her wing they went to English private lessons and also to some social "etiquette" classes in order to have a very beautiful appeareance and to know how to behave in some places they weren't used to as they came from Dominican Republic rural area.

The photographer of these photos is unknown, but the first photo was sent from Maria to her Spanish cousin Armando Gracia Sanfiel (1913-1997) and he gave it to Antonio Perez Arnay (1959-2012) who published in his book "María Montez, La Reina del Technicolor" (Filmoteca Canaria, 1995).

The other photos come from ebay and pinterest.

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tina-aumont · 3 months

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María África Gracia Vidal (on screen she will became Maria Montez) pictured with her younger sister Consuelo in Barahona, Dominican Republic in 1934.

This photo comes from Pinterest but it has been printed in Margarita Vicens book "María Montez, Su vida - edición especial del Centenario" (Dirección General de Cine de la República Dominicana, 2012.

#María Montez #Maria Montez #1934 Maria #Consuelo Gracia Vidal #1934 Consuelo #Julia Andre #actress #Queen of Technicolor #La Reina del Tecnicolor #María Montez su vida #Margarita Vicens #Gracia Family #Montez Family

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tina-aumont · 5 months

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Consuelo with her famous sister in "Pirates of Monterey" filming set (1947).

After María's passing, Adita (not shown in these photos) went to live with her sister Consuelo in California. It's not known if Adita ever married or had children.

You have more information about Consuelo in this post (and check the links I've posted).

Very special thanks to @74paris for sending me this photo and for some of the information displayed here.

#Consuelo Gracia Vidal #María Montez #Maria Montez #Pirates of Monterey #1947 Pirates of Monterey #actress #model #Montez Family #Gracia Family #collaboration #Julia Andre #1947 Consuelo #1947 Maria

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tina-aumont · 9 months

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Hi! Thank you for including Tina's exteded and tallented family here!! Her mum, aunts, cousin... What can you tell me about Julia Andre, she was in only 1 film, right? Do you have screencaps? All the sisters were very beautiful, I'd like to see more of them. Thank you!

Hi Anon!!

Thank you very much for your question and sorry for the late reply...

There is little information about her but I just found a publication from 2010 that I will translate into English but I'll add here the link which is in Spanish:

By Emilia María Consuelo Gracia (Her granddaughter): Consuelo was born in Barahona, Dominican Republic in 1925. She was the ninth daughter of 10 siblings. When she was 19 years old, her sister María Montez took her to Los Angeles, California.

She acted in the movie “Pirates of Monterrey” with her sister but she was not interested in acting in more movies because she was uncomfortable with the language.

So she worked as a model for a short time until she married publicist Kenneth Carter and had four children: Kenny Gracia Carter, William Joaquín Carter, Cristina Carter, and James Randolf Carter. In 2010 she resided in Southern California.

These last four photos are provided by Angel Feliz and along with the information they come from: Barahona Histórica blogspot curated by Pepe Pimentel.

The first three photos come from the documentary “De María África a María Montez, un mito en Technicolor”

Soon I'll search for the film and I'll make screencaps. Thank you very much for your question, and I hope this answer helps you. Have a nice day!!

Eleni xxx

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tina-aumont · 11 months

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Here you have the beautiful Gracia/Montez Sisters!!

These set of photos was taken in 1944 and you can see (L-R): Adita, María, Consuelo and Lucita.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sending me some of these photos, the others come from ebay, worthpoint and 2014 documentary about María Montez.

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