Among the most exotic of Hollywood beauties, María Montez was born on June 6 in the Dominican Republic and educated in a Catholic convent in her father’s native Canary Islands. She starred in The Invisible Woman (1940), That Night in Rio (1941), South of Tahiti (1941), Lucky Devils (1942), The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) and Tangier (1946), but it was her performances in Arabian Nights (1942) and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) that made her a box office favorite. Less known, Montez wrote songs, books of poetry, and served as U.S. Goodwill Ambassador. The Trujillo government in the Dominican Republic recognized her achievements as a “woman,” and named a street after her following her untimely death. In 1996 the town of Barahona named the airport after her.

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