Carmen Montejo
Acting • Born 1925-05-26 – Died 2013-02-25
Biography
Carmen Montejo (born María Teresa Sánchez González; May 26, 1925 - February 25, 2013) was a Cuban-born actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico. Real name: María Teresa Sánchez González 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 collage studies her parents offered her a trip to the United States but instead she chose to go to Mexico for two months. 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 who changed her professional name to "Carmen Montejo" when she told him she lived across the Hotel Montejo. 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. 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. For her work in television, films and theatre, Montejo was inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias. Carmen Montejo died on February 25, 2013, in Mexico City. She was 87.
Filmography
86 credits
The Adolescents
Movie • 1968
Omen
Movie • 1975
Doña Agueda
Mimí Derba
Movie • 2000
Self
Adventures of Juliancito
Movie • 1969
Tía Claudia
The Death of a Stallion
Movie • 1983
The Vampire
Movie • 1957
Eloisa
They Call Him Marcado
Movie • 1971
Remedios
La recta final
Movie • 1966
Martha Maretti
Remember to Live
Movie • 1953
Leonora
Magdalena’s True Vocation
Movie • 1972
Zoyla
Corrupción oficial
Movie • 1980
Bamba
Movie • 1949
Tirsa Mendieta
Entre hermanos
Movie • 1945
Pilar
El Rey
Movie • 1976
Engagement ring
Movie • 1951
Coronation
Movie • 1976
Doña Elisa - Abuela
A media luz
Movie • 1947
Susana
In the Palm of Your Hand
Movie • 1951
Clara Stein
La Casa Que Arde de Noche
Movie • 1985
Celia
El Bronco
Movie • 1982
El camino de los gatos
Movie • 1944
The Cubs
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Cuéllar
The Prophet Mimi
Movie • 1973
Magdalena, prostituta vecina
Angel Face
Movie • 1956
Doña Macabra
Movie • 1972
Demetria
The Great Victory
Movie • 1981
Corazones rotos
Movie • 2002
The Faces of the Moon
Movie • 2002
Mariana Toscano
En la trampa
Movie • 1979
Laura
La infame
Movie • 1954
Luisa Barrios de Benet
No matarás
Movie • 1943
La pequeña enemiga
Movie • 1956
El plagiario
Movie • 1955
The Suspect
Movie • 1955
Señora Adela Perez
Dos diablitos en apuros
Movie • 1957
Perverse Doll
Movie • 1969
Tía Jenny
El potro salvaje
Movie • 1958
Misericordia
Movie • 1953
Juliana
Monte de piedad
Movie • 1951
María Franco Ruiz
Mujeres sin mañana
Movie • 1951
Marta
¡Mamá, soy Paquito!
Movie • 1984
Mrs. Falcon
Prisión de mujeres
Movie • 1977
Marta/ La Macabra
Resigned for Reasons of Health
Movie • 1976
María
The Hex
Movie • 1983
Emilia
Yo fui una usurpadora
Movie • 1946
Estafa de amor
Movie • 1955
We the Poor
Movie • 1948
Yolanda la Tísica
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Movie • 1951
Yolanda
Ave sin nido
Movie • 1943
Crimen en la alcoba
Movie • 1946
Martha
La señora de enfrente
Movie • 1945
Entre abogados te veas
Movie • 1951
La Víctima (Catalina Prado)
The Crazy Virgins
Movie • 1972
Elena Guardiola
Legítima defensa
Movie • 1953
Caminito alegre
Movie • 1944
El río de las ánimas
Movie • 1964
Las Troyanas
Movie • 1963
Sor Ye-yé
Movie • 1968
Madre superiora
Todos son mis hijos!...
Movie • 1951
In the Storm
Movie • 1982
Doña Toña
Secreto entre mujeres
Movie • 1949
Lodo y armiño
Movie • 1951
The Magic Hour
Movie • 2000
Sor Alegría
Movie • 1952
The Children of Sanchez
Movie • 1978
Aunt Guadalupe
Memories of the Future
Movie • 1969
Reportaje
Movie • 1953
Feminist Nurse
Cuatro horas antes de morir
Movie • 1953
Marga
Late Afternoon
Movie • 1949
Lucia
Cita con la muerte
Movie • 1949
Burdel
Movie • 1982
Madre de Juan
Los Jóvenes
Movie • 1961
Rosa, Madre de Alicia
Light in the High Plains
Movie • 1953
Las Ladrilleras
Movie • 2006
Ni Chana Ni Juana
Movie • 1984
Te Sigo Amando
TV • 1996
Paula Garza Vda. de Torres-Quintero
Den of Wolves
TV • 1986
Esperanza Mandujano
Mágica juventud
TV • 1992
Leonor Jiménez Vda. de Retana/Pepita
El Engaño
TV • 1986
Selene
Juana Iris
TV • 1985
María Luisa
Paloma
TV • 1975
Gloria Nava
Love Without Makeup
TV • 2007
Verónica Vda. de Velázquez
Friends 4 Ever
TV • 2000
Doña Julia Ruvalcaba vda. de Vidal
Adventures in Time
TV • 2001
Margarita Rosales de Flores
Las Lunas del Auditorio
TV • 2002
Self
El Maleficio
TV • 1983
Doña Emilia González Vda. de Castellanos