#Adita Gracia Vidal

[tina-aumont]

Happy Heavenly Birthday Adita!!

Thank you for your elegance, your expertise and your kindness.

We remember you from planet Earth.

Fly high, kisses above!!

Eleni

xoxoxo

[tina-aumont]

Gracia Sisters, 1951

Beautiful photo taken after "L'Île Heureuse" play was staged for the first time, January 24, 1951 at the Edouard VII Theater in Paris. This play was written by Jean-Pierre Aumont and was a great success.

From left to right we can see Teresita, Adita, María and Lucita, sadly Consuelo was not there.

Scan from a vintage French magazine.

[tina-aumont]

Teresita Montez debuted in front of her three sisters

Lucita, Adita, Teresita and Maria Montez are the four daughters of a diplomat from the Republic of Santo Domingo. Maria, the first, left her father's house to try her luck in Hollywood. There she found fame and love. She became Mrs. Jean-Pierre Aumont. Which took her to Paris. Lucita came to join the first with her husband, the novelist Jean Roy. Then Adita, then Teresita. Adita is in business and Teresita has just been dismissed from Jacques Heim's office. Cinema, literature, business, fashion, the Montez family is now part of the Parisian elite.

Photo and caption from November 1950 Paris Match number 88.

Please note that Jean Roy was not a novelist but a war journalist, but perhaps to protect him, Paris Match wrote that he was a novelist. And another thing, they skip to mention Consuelo, who was living in the States with husband Kenneth Carter... If you chech closely this tumblr, you won't find any photo of the five Montez/Gracia sisters together, always there's one missing, but who knows if one day such a photo surfaces, that would be a dream!!

✨Very special thanks to @74paris for sharing this wonderful gem!!✨

[tina-aumont]

Lucita, Adita, Consuelo and Maria pictured together in Hollywood in 1944 shortly after Maria's sisters arribal.

Uncredited photographer.

This photo can be found at the new published book about Maria Montez: "The Queen of Technicolor, Maria Montez in Hollywood" written by Tom Zimmerman.

Very special thanks to @shannendoherty-fans for shring this beautiful pic.

[tina-aumont]

Adita & Teresita in 1951

Adita & Teresita pictured at Edouard VII Theater in Paris on January 24, 1951 when they went to see her sister Maria acting in the stage play "L'Île Heureuse".

The script was written by Jean-Pierre Aumont and their sister Lucita was also attending this event (sadly she's not pictured).

My guessing is that the woman on the right of the picture is Soledad Vicens Coll, you can see a post of her here.

Scan from Italian magazine Incom, 15th September 1951.

[tina-aumont]

Three photos of Montez sisters taken, according to ebay, in 1943.

In these photos we can see Lucita, Adita, Maria and Consuelo (L-R from the last photo) enjoying some time together. According to ebay these photos were taken in 1943 but as far as I know the beautiful sisters reunited in Hollywood in 1944. María left for Hollywood the July from 1940.

Unknown photographer.

[tina-aumont]

~* 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

[tina-aumont]

Barahona, 1943

First photo shows Lucita (Left) and Consuelo (Right) pictured with Soledad Vicens Coll, the second photo shows Lucita (seated at the centre of the photo) with her sister Consuelo, on the left there's Soledad Vicens Coll and on the right there's her sister Margarita. This second photo is taken by Adita.

Both pictures were taken in 1943 in Barahona before the Gracia sisters left to Hollywood to meet her Famous sister María.

The Vicens Coll sisters were friends of the Gracia Vidal sisters, and thanks to this friendship, Margarita Vicens de Morales (María Montez biographer) could write and keep all these precious memories of María and her family as Margarita is Vicens Coll Sisters' direct descendant.

Photo 1 comes from “De María África a María Montez, un mito en Technicolor” documentary, photo 2 has been shared by @74paris (muchas gracias!), in Margarita Vicens Book about María Montez you can find a clearer copy from that photo.

[tina-aumont]

Beautiful Montez sisters pictured in 1946

(L-R): Consuelo, Lucita, Adita and Maria are pictured with Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1946. Note he's cropped out at the second photo, which is a scan from a 1990s magazine.

[tina-aumont]

FAMILY CIRCLE: Maria Montez acts as hostess for her two sisters, Adita (left) and Consuelo, and two French Officers, 2nd Lts. Rene Bloch and Rene Larguier, on the "Tangier" set at Universal. Adita and Consuelo arrived in Hollywood recently, while Bloch and Larguier are close friends of Maria's husband, Jean-Pierre Aumont, having fought with Aumont through Africa and Europe in the French Army.

As a note I would say that Tangier was filmed in Autumn 1945 and Maria was pregnant with Tina.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sharing this photo.

[tina-aumont]

♀️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

[tina-aumont]

Description from alamy website:

Maria Montez, (second from left), with her sisters, (from left), Lucita de Courbiere, Adita, Consuelo, Chicago, October 21, 1944.

The beautiful sisters were Lucita aged 17, being the youngest one in this photo, Maria was 32 but at that time said she was 23, Adita was 19 and Consuelo 18.

At the time this photo was taken, the only one who was married was Maria, Lucita would marry Jean Roy the 12th April 1946 and Consuelo would marry Kenneth Carter in August 1946. Maria becaming mother in February 1946, we could say 1946 was a great year for the family.

I'm wondering why Alamy would labed Lucita as Lucita de Courbiere, maybe it was an artistic name... who knows!

[tina-aumont]

Thank you for all the information about Tina and her extended and talented family, the photos, etc. Consuelo was not good with her English and that's why she didn't pursue a career in film, yet she married an American. And Maria, Luz and Teresita went to live to France and worked there. Allmarried French men and Teresita also dated an Italian... maybe their level was low but I think they spoke 3 languages at least! Not too bad in the 40s and 50s!

Thank you very much fro writing me!!!

All sisters spoke Spanish very fluently as it was their mother tongue.

Maria spoke well English but you can listen she has a strong Spanish accent, that's why she was very successful, it sounded exotic. I've seen some of her French films too and she spoke better French than English, she did some films in Italy as well, and I'm guessing she spoke a little bit of Italian.

You're right about Consuelo. I guess she didn't feel comfortable because she had to learn the scrip fast, but my guessing is that when she got married, she could learnt it little by little. She lived in the States too, where are lots of Hispanics, but maybe in the end she was quite fluent in the language. I don't know about her levels of French and Italian...

Lucita and Teresita married Frenchmen and they became French, and I guess they spoke the language very fluent as is the language they spoke at home and within the family. I don't know about their English level, but Teresita had to knew Italian as she dated an Italian actor and went to live to Rome!! (as Tina would do some years later!!)

Adita was fluent in English besides Spanish as you can see here in this post. And recently, thanks to FamilySearch.org page I found she married twice, once with an English man, or at least the name is of English origin, so I guess she was good in that language.

Jaime was also good in English as he went to Hollywood to become an actor but he also joined the US Army and was Sergeant, so I guess he could speak and write in this language besides Spanish. I don't know about French or Italian...

And now... let's continue with the list!!

Raïna Paris speaks well English and French since she was born and raised in France and then went to live to England and nowadays she lives in California. I guess she knows and understands Spanish, but I really don't know that!!

Tina spoke French really good and you know she spoke English and Italian too. I think the mother tongue used within her family was French, with her cousins, uncles, aunties and nieces, and I don't know about her level of Spanish. I guess she spoke Spanish with her mum when she was little, but I don't know if she kept it or not as some sources say she was fluent in Spanish and some sey she wasn't...

And the last one of this list is María Montez Gracia Fiallo!! Tina's and Raïna's cousin and niece of the Queen of Technicolor!!! Maria knows Spanish as her mother tongue, she knows as well English as she worked in lots of theatre productions there, she knows French as well as she lived in France in a Theatrical Company for at least four years, she knows Italian as well... and German!!! So I guess from all the family members she is the one who speaks more languages!!

[tina-aumont]

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.

[tina-aumont]

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

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

[tina-aumont]

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.