Mario Montez

Mario Montez (actually Rene Rivera, born July 20, 1935 in Ponce, Puerto Rico; † September 26, 2013 in Key West, Florida) was an American transvestite and underground actor, as especially through his films with Andy Warhol was known director.

Life

About the private life of Mario Montez is virtually nothing is known. This is mainly due to that he held in his bourgeois existence ( he worked at a post office in New York City ) be transvestite existence hidden. He first played Off-Off -Broadway theater. His first still known role was the Puerto Ricans in the scandalous film Flaming Creatures ( 1961) by Jack Smith. The adapted in this film, " persona ", a satire of the Mexican Hollywood star Maria Montez, gave him his stage name still retained. Just as in this film, he slipped into the Factory Warhol at night in his "second identity" and imitated great actresses of bygone Hollywood Times: Jean Harlow in Harlot, Lana Turner in More Milk Yvette and Hedy Lamarr in Hedy (aka The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, The Shoplifter and The Fourteen Year Old Girl).

Merit full consequence, the historical role that Montez has played for the emancipation of homosexuals and transvestites. As one of the first ever he dared to put his private, then fully outlawed inclinations front of the camera to flaunt.

From 1977 lived Montez in Orlando, Florida. He died aged 78 in September 2013 in Key West.

Filmography

Films of Jack Smith:

• Normal Love (1963 )
• Reefers Of Technicolor Iceland (1967 )
• No President ( 1969)
• I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo ( posthumously 1998)

Films of Andy Warhol:

• Mario Banana (1964 )
• Batman Dracula (1964 )
• Harlot (1964 )
• Screen Test # 2 ( 1965)
• Milk more Yvette (1965)
• Camp ( 1965)
• The Life of Juanita Castro ( 1965)
• Hedy (1966 )
• Ari and Mario (1966 )
• The Chelsea Girls ( 1966)

Films of John Heys:

• A Lazy Summer Afternoon with Mario Montez (2011)

Awards

• 2012: Special Teddy