Lisa Montell Net Worth is
$700,000

Mini Biography

Smoulderingly beautiful and a fetching, exotic-eyed vision for the American screen through the 1950s and early 1960s, dark-maned Lisa Montell impressed even more, specifically to male filmgoers, simply because a pleasant diversion amidst all of the rugged terrain and tropical South Sea hazards than being a formidable actress. Identical in beauty and allure to the beautiful Debra Paget and France Nuyen, the “Starlet of several Faces” had a solid knack for cultural accents and were able to play a number of international types over her fairly brief time prior to the camcorder (Peruvian, Mexican, French, Italian, Burmese, Polynesian). Her film job application, which would consist of such cult-oriented classics as Girl of sunlight God (1962), Globe Without End (1956) as well as the Roger Corman cheapies Nude Heaven (1957) and She Gods of Shark Reef (1958) had been almost all “B” and “C” quality (or worse) in range and she ultimately tired of having less challenge. She forgotten her career in the elevation of her beauty (around 1962) but discovered immense personal benefits in later years as a religious exponent from the Bahá’í faith. Although Lisa was created Irena Ludmilla Vladimiovna Augustinovich in Warsaw, Poland, on July 5, 1933, she had not been raised there and didn’t keep her given name for lengthy. Of Russian-Polish descent, she was created to privilege. She and her family members were able to flee securely to america just months prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland on Sept 1, 1939. Her dad, an effective businessman, transformed the family members name to Montwill and Irena’s name was modified to Irene. The family members moved right into a large Fifth Avenue house in NEW YORK and generously required in Polish refugees (both relatives and buddies) as required during WWII. Lisa studied artwork, tone of voice and dance in Forest Hillsides and finally was accepted in to the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of Music and Artwork in Manhattan. She later on used in the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for the Performing Arts where she created a pastime in acting. Pursuing graduation, she went to the University or college of Miami (Florida) for any semester before her dad, whose business included iron mines in Peru, relocated the family members to Lima. While there Lisa once again studied theatre in American-based performing workshops which were setup there She received her first professional break in 1953 after becoming noticed and solid by Hollywood makers searching for regional female leads for any film these were capturing in Peru. The film was called Daughter of sunlight God (1962) and it had been occur the Peruvian jungles. Lisa takes on a young exciting blonde explorer with an expedition who’s not merely threatened by raging waters, desert warmth and indigenous ritualistic procedures, but by several wildlife aswell (crocodiles, pumas and gigantic snakes, to mention several). The film acquired financial complications and was therefore poorly produced that it had been held up almost ten years before it had been finally bought and released towards the American marketplace in 1962. While enjoying a South American jet-set lifestyle in Peru, Lisa continued to surface in a small number of various other local movies before learning of Hollywood’s curiosity about her regardless of the unsuccessful advertising of her debut film. Pursuing her father’s untimely loss of life, Lisa and her mom moved to LA where in fact the ethnic-looking wannabe discovered work ensemble on Television as Eurasian, Latina and Native-American types. Billed as Irene Montwill, Lisa’s initial Hollywood film was Warner Bros.’ Leap Into Hell (1955), a France Indochina (pre-Vietnam) battle picture where she performed a French like interest to Euro soldier ‘Peter Vn Eyck’. The studio room then place her under a short-term agreement and she transformed her name towards the even more unique moniker of Lisa Montell. Despite even more second-lead publicity in the RKO movies, Get away to Burma (1955), a tea plantation theatre starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Ryan, and Pearl from the South Pacific (1955), a tropical South Seas experience with Virginia Mayo and Dennis Morgan, Lisa had not been in a position to up her position in Hollywood. After filming the minor western, The Crazy Dakotas (1956), she appeared in another of her better-remembered pictures, the cult sci-fi film, Globe Without End (1956), with Hugh Marlowe and Pole Taylor, which occurs on the planet in the 26th century. She continued to play a little role like a ballet dancer in the Leslie Caron MGM theatre, Gaby (1956), and was also among the Italian Martelli sisters (others getting Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok and Lisa Gaye) in the musical humor, Ten Thousand Bed rooms (1957), starring Dean Martin. Over the traditional western front, she made an appearance, with Chuck Connors, as an Indian maiden in Tomahawk Path (1957). Things transferred within a cult-like path for Lisa with her tropical feminine assignments in Roger Corman’s Nude Heaven (1957) and She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), both filmed in the same place in Hawaii. If nothing at all else, she surely got to showcase her great amount and underwater going swimming skills. Over time, scores of ambitious guest roles emerged Lisa’s method on Television, notably westerns, like the well-known series as The Gene Autry Display (1950), Broken Arrow (1956), Stories of Wells Fargo (1957), Colt .45 (1957), Have got Gun – Can Travel (1957), Sugarfoot (1957), Cheyenne (1955), Bat Masterson (1958) and Maverick (1957). Beyond your traditional western genre, came several varied shows in from humor (The Ann Sothern Display (1958)) to hip actions experience (Surfside 6 (1960)). Once wed to fellow acting professional David Janti, Lisa’s last film was the small “B” western, The Firebrand (1962), starring Kent Taylor. She retired immediately after and dedicated herself, specifically, to educational pursuits aswell as her Bahá’í religious beliefs. She was elected towards the Bahá’í Regional Spiritual Set up of LA and offered as Chairperson. Ordinarily a community speaker, she’s been outspoken on such problems as poverty and discrimination. She was also quite mixed up in early stages from the civil privileges movement and provides spent active period with youngsters arts applications. She later composed a reserve (as Lisa Janti) about her religious sojourn and, recently, became this program movie director of the guts for Education on the Desert Rose Bahá’í Institute. In 2008, she was a visitor attendee on the Traditional western Legends Film Event.

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