Mario Montez
René Rivera, (July 20, 1935 – September 26, 2013), known professionally as Mario Montez, was one of the Warhol superstars, appearing in thirteen of Andy Warhol's underground films from 1964 to 1966. He took his name as a male homage to the actress Maria Montez, an important gay icon in the fifties and sixties. Before appearing in Warhol's films, he appeared in Jack Smith's important underground films Flaming Creatures and Normal Love. Montez also stars in the Ron Rice film, Chumlum, made in 1964. Mario Montez, was "a staple in the New York underground scene of the 1960s and ’70s."
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.151 |
| Birthday | 1935-07-20 |
| Place of Birth | Ponce, Puerto Rico |
| Also Known As | René Rivera, Dolores Flores, |
1969
The Gypsy's Ball
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Adventures of Lily Lonely, a wicked gypsy and a mischievous boy. In color.
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The Gypsy's Ball
1968
Flaming Twenties
0/0
Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the en...
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Flaming Twenties
1965
Harlot
0/0
Jean Harlow-lookalike Harlot (Mario Montez), Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-s...
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Harlot
1987
Reel Six: Charles Ludlam’s Grand Tarot
0/0
The New York underground linked the paths of the actor and playwright Charles Ludlam, the superstar of avant-garde cinema Mario Montez and the Argenti...
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Reel Six: Charles Ludlam’s Grand Tarot
1967
Lupe
6.5/2
The film — a mix of music, colors, abstract scenes and little dialogue — is based loosely on the life and death of Mexican-American actress Lupe Velez...
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Lupe
1964
Mario Banana I
3.8/19
Mario Montez in drag eats a banana.
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Mario Banana I
1964
Mario Banana II
3.5/14
Black-and-white version of Mario Banana I, in which Mario enjoys another banana.
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Mario Banana II
1966
Hedy
0/0
Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then caug...
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Hedy
1970
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
0/0
A film by Alfredo Leonardi.
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Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1965
Screen Test #2
10/1
Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliati...
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Screen Test #2
1966
More Milk, Yvette
0/0
Warhol offers his own version of the notorious 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder case.
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More Milk, Yvette
1963
Normal Love
7/10
The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a d...
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Normal Love
1963
Flaming Creatures
4.654/52
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with se...
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Flaming Creatures
1967
Jungle Island
0/0
A tropical island fantasy.
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Jungle Island
1969
No President
5.3/3
Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign...
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No President
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
6.6/7
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's perform...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
1969
Face
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The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and th...
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Face
1965
Camp
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Shot at Warhol's Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a "summer camp" talent show complete with singing, dancing, jokes, poe...
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Camp
1965
Dirt
8/2
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
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Dirt
1964
Batman Dracula
4.1/8
Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screene...
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Batman Dracula
1968
The Queen
6.4/28
In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer...
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The Queen
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
8/3
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, a...
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
2017
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
0/0
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performan...
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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
1966
Chelsea Girls
5.7/36
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be sc...
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Chelsea Girls
1963
Chumlum
6/12
Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...
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Chumlum
2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.4/22
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1966
Satisfaction
0/0
Part of the Dirt Trilogy
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