A new book explores the career of the groundbreaking Dominican actor, who is now not well known, and her ability to play a system that made it hard for her
Maria Montez in Cobra Woman. ‘I want this book to introduce her to the world that has largely forgotten her.’Maria Montez in Cobra Woman. ‘I want this book to introduce her to the world that has largely forgotten her.’Last modified on Tue 16 Aug 2022 07.32 BSTew know the name Maria Montez today, but her story is just the kind of Hollywood miracle that people love to hear about.
How did Montez, a Hollywood outsider if ever there was one, make it to become an A-list leading lady? As The Queen of Technicolor explains, she dedicated herself to a tried and true method – courting controversy and never letting the Hollywood press forget her name. A bombshell with a penchant for showing off her body, it didn’t take Montez long to run afoul of moralists of the time for wearing overly tight sweaters in photo spreads.
The Queen of Technicolor is assiduously researched and is a meaningful first biography of a woman who deserves to be remembered. The book is fascinating for how its story of Montez’s rise combines elements of the old Hollywood studio system that defined film’s so-called golden age, the cultural and moralistic milieu of the time, and the vast publicity apparatus that allowed Montez to turn the era’s sexism to her advantage.
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