Maria Montez - Legacy and Afterdeath

Legacy and Afterdeath

Shortly after her death, a street in the city of Barahona, Montez's birthplace, was named in her honor.

In 1976 Margarita Vicens de Morales publishes a series of articles in the Dominican newspaper Listin Diario, in its magazine called Suplemento, where she presented the results of the research she was carrying out in order to get to the real life story of Maria Montez, which leads her to visit the various sources in different countries where the eminent Dominican actress María Montez lived and acted, culminating that research in 1992 with the publication of the biography "Maria Montez, Su Vida". After the first edition, a second edition was published in 1994 and a third in 2004. A special edition is being prepared pursuant to the centenary of the birth of the eminent Dominican actress Maria Montez (please find as follows covers the three editions).

In 1995 Maria Montez is awarded the International Posthumous Cassandra, which was received by Tina Aumont (her only daughter) from the hands of the Dominican biographer of Maria Montez, Licda. Margarita Vicens who acted on behalf of ACROARTE, and was accompanied by the Dominican Film Director Jean Louis Jorge. At the request of Maria Montez Widower Jean Pierre Aumont, Margarita Vicens and her husband, Dr. Manuel Morales Lama accompanied him to view the collection of pictures, posters, and documents of Maria Montez, which were exhibited in the event. This collection belongs to Margarita Vicens de Morales. They also gave him as a special delivery the second edition of the book Maria Montez Su Vida by Margarita Vicens de Morales, which is illustrated with more than 300 pictures, most of them published for the first time, authentic documents and posters.

In 1996, the city of Barahona opened the Aeropuerto Internacional María Montez (María Montez International Airport) in her honor.

The American underground filmmaker Jack Smith idolized Montez as an icon of camp style. Among his acts of devotion, he wrote an aesthetic manifesto titled "The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez", referred to her as "The Wonderful One" or "The Marvelous One", and made elaborate homages to her movies in his own films, including the notorious Flaming Creatures.