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.”
Mario Montez Biography / Wiki
| Name | Mario Montez |
| Also Know | René Rivera, Dolores Flores |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Ponce, Puerto Rico |
| Date of Birth | 1935-07-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
| Deathday | 2013-09-26 |
Mario Montez Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Harlot | Harlot | 1965-01-11 | 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… |
| Lupe | Lupe Velez | 1967-01-30 | 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 V… |
| Mario Banana II | Mario | 1964-12-07 | Black-and-white version of Mario Banana I, in which Mario enjoys another banana…. |
| Mario Banana I | Mario | 1964-12-07 | Mario Montez in drag eats a banana…. |
| Hedy | Hedy Lamarr | 1966-03-03 | 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… |
| No President | 1969-02-02 | Smith’s third feature film was originally titled “The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit,” in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign… | |
| More Milk, Yvette | Lana Turner | 1966-02-08 | Warhol offers his own version of the notorious 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder case…. |
| Screen Test #2 | 1965-06-12 | Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliati… | |
| Normal Love | Mermaid | 1963-01-01 | 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… |
| Jungle Island | 1967-01-01 | A tropical island fantasy…. | |
| Face | Himself | 1969-04-10 | 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… |
| Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith | Himself (archive footage) | 2017-01-26 | In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performan… |
| The Queen | Self – Singer | 1968-06-17 | 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 … |
| Chumlum | 1963-12-29 | 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 … | |
| Flaming Creatures | The Spanish Girl | 1963-04-29 | Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.†Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough wit… |
| Satisfaction | 1966-03-31 | Part of the Dirt Trilogy… | |
| Camp | 1965-11-22 | 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… | |
| Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self | 1969-12-01 | An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s…. |
| Dirt | 1965-09-25 | Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry…. | |
| Chelsea Girls | Transvestite | 1966-09-01 | 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… |
| Batman Dracula | 1964-01-01 | 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… | |
| Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | Himself | 2007-04-11 | In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith’s perform… |
| Andy Warhol Screen Tests | Self | 1965-11-28 | 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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