Natividad Abascal y Romero-Toro (born 2 April 1943, in Seville, Spain), more commonly known as Naty Abascal (formerly, the Duchess of Feria), is a Spanish socialite and former fashion model. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1984. Natividad Abascal Romero-Toro (Sevilla, 1 de abril de 1943), más conocida como Naty Abascal o Nati Abascal, es una modelo de alta costura española, musa de diseñadores como Elio Berhanyer,Valentino y Óscar de la Renta y exduquesa de Feria. BiographyNaty Abascal's modeling career started when Spanish fashion designer Elio Berhanyer asked both her and her twin sister Ana Maria to model some of his designs at the International Exhibition in New York in 1964. The couple caught Richard Avedon's eye and he decided to photograph them in Ibiza later in 1964 for his 'The Iberians (The Blaze in Spain)' editorial in Harper's Bazaar. By 1965 Abascal was on the cover of this publication in another photograph signed by Avedon. After this, her modeling career took off and she settled in New York. Among others, she worked for Oscar de la Renta from his very early days(they met while he was still working for Elizabeth Arden) and became great friends, a friendship that lasted until his death. Designer Valentino Garavani met Abascal in 1968 at a party when she was 25 years old. By then, she had already been working as a model in New York for at least 3 years and had a full-time contract with Ford model agency; years later she would also be employed by Wilhelmina model agency. Valentino brought her to the island of Capri for modeling shoots and, ever since, they've remained close friends. In 1971 Abascal married Murray Livingstone Smith, a Vice-President of an advertising agency, although this has been disputed. They met at Cartier in NYC, and a few months later Smith sent a red Ferrari to her house with a note saying "Marry me". They did, but split up in 1975. In 1971 she also had a small role in Woody Allen's 1971 film Bananas as the guerrilla girl Yolanda. This same year she posed naked for Playboy magazine and was also the cover of Andy Warhol's magazine Interview. In 1974 she made a commercial for Alka-Seltzer with Salvador Dalí which was seen as "too aggressive" by certain viewers. Dalí was shown pretending to stab Naty with some paint brushes, as he painted her body. The commercial was not particularly successful and was taken back from public view quite quickly. Towards the end of 1975 she returned to her home in Seville, Spain. She reunited with an ex-boyfriend from her teenage years, Rafael Medina y Fernandez de Cordoba, Duke of Feria and Marquis of Villalba. They married in July 1977 and had two sons: Rafael, born on 25 September 1978, who is the present Duke of Feria, and Luis, born on 30 August 1980. At the beginning of the 1980s, and well after having left the fashion world, she jumped again on the catwalks for her friend Carolina Herrera's first collection. It would be her last catwalk show. In 1982, several years after having left the fashion world, Norman Parkinson decided to portray her in the Caribbean for Town and Country magazine. In 1984 she presented Oscar de la Renta's collection to the Spanish media and in 1987 Lord Snowdon also photographed her in Seville. Naty and Rafael Medina split up in 1989 and divorced in unfriendly terms. Abascal is known as one of Valentino Garavani's Spanish muses and she's also closely connected to Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera, among other designers. She still works regularly as a stylist for Hola! magazine as well as many other random projects. BiografiaNieta del V marqués de Romero-Toro, título pontificio, nació en una familia de 12 hermanos. Tiene una hermana gemela, Ana María. Su padre, Domingo Abascal y Fernández, era un rico abogado, dueño de extensos olivares y un próspero negocio de aceitunas, y su madre, María Natividad Romero-Toro y Noriega, fue la primera mujer que abrió una boutique en Sevilla. Cuando contaba con 21 años, el modisto Elio Berhanyer les propuso a su hermana gemela Ana María y a ella que presentaran su colección en Nueva York durante la Exposición Mundial de 1964. Allí conocieron a Richard Avedon quien, a su regreso a España, les ofreció posar para un reportaje de 15 páginas en la revista de moda Harpers Bazaar que se publicaría en enero de 1965. Meses después, Avedon volvió a fotografiarla (esta vez a Naty sola) para la portada de la misma revista. A partir de entonces, comenzó a subir su cotización como modelo y se instaló en Nueva York. Elieen Ford, directora de la agencia de modelos más importante de Estados Unidos, la contrató y Nati Abascal comenzó a pasar modelos de los más famosos modistos. Presentó pieles de Revillon y Maximilliam y posó en los platós con joyas de Cartier o Bulgari. Está considerada la musa de los modistos Óscar de la Renta y Valentino. En 1970 se casó con el escocés Murray Livingstone Smith, del que se divorciaría cinco años más tarde. Woody Allen la contrató en 1971 para su película Bananas, en la que interpretó el papel de una guerrillera latinoamericana. También realizó un spot publicitario para televisión en el que aparecía pintada por Salvador Dalí, y posó desnuda para el número de julio de 1971 de la revista Playboy. En 1975, tras su divorcio, decidió regresar a Sevilla, donde, el 14 de julio de 1977, contrajo matrimonio con Rafael Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, duque de Feria, marqués de Villalba y segundo hijo de los duques de Medinaceli, al que conocía desde la infancia. La ceremonia se celebró en la onubense ermita de El Rocío. A partir de entonces se alejó de las pasarelas. De su matrimonio con el duque de Feria nacieron dos hijos: Rafael Medina (nacido el 25 de septiembre de 1978) y Luis Medina(nacido el 31 de agosto de 1980). En la década de los ochenta colaboró como estilista y seleccionando grandes casas en España para la revista "House and Garden", regresando a su trabajo de modelo por todo el mundo a raíz de su separación.
Tras el verano de 1988 empezaron a correr rumores sobre la posible relación sentimental entre Nati Abascal y Ramón Mendoza, presidente del Real Madrid. En octubre de ese año se separó de su marido. Su relación con el presidente del club madrileño duró hasta aproximadamente finales de 1989. El 13 de febrero de 1989 se dictó sentencia en el juicio de separación de los duques de Feria. En ésta, además de establecerse las pensiones correspondientes, se concedió la patria potestad de los hijos a Nati Abascal, y se recogía la renuncia expresa de ella al uso de los títulos que había obtenido por matrimonio: Excelentísima señora doña Natividad Abascal Romero-Toro, duquesa de Feria y marquesa de Villalba (1977-1989). Meses después, en junio de 1989, una posterior sentencia le concedía la patria potestad al aristócrata. Los trámites para la nulidad del matrimonio los inició el duque de Feria en enero de 1992. Nati Abascal está considerada como una de las mujeres más elegantes del mundo. Entre los galardones que ha recibido por ello se encuentran: en 1987 el Óscar a la elegancia de Nueva York de 1986, lo que le permitió ser incluida en el libro "Hall of Fame", en septiembre de 1988 finalista en el premio mundial Elegance Award, y en noviembre de 1993 la Asociación de Críticos norteamericanos la eligió como la mujer mejor vestida del mundo, sucediendo a la princesa Carolina de Mónaco. Además, ha conseguido en cuatro ocasiones el premio a la mujer más elegante de España (1986, 1987, 1988 y 1992), merced a una encuesta realizada por la revista ¡Hola! entre diseñadores de moda y lectores. Actualmente trabaja colaborando en los estilismos y realizaciones de reportajes para la revista ¡Hola! y presta su imagen para conocidas marcas de joyas.
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ProfileAmaia Salamanca Urízar (born 28 March 1986) is a Spanish actress, best known for her role as Catalina Marcos in the Spanish version of the Colombian TV series "Sin tetas no hay paraíso" and as Alicia Alarcón in series Gran Hotel. Amaia Salamanca Urízar (Coslada, Madrid, 28 de marzo de 1986) es una actriz y modelo española conocida por su participación en series como Sin tetas no hay paraíso, Gran Hotel o SMS. También ha protagonizado diferentes películas como Fuga de Cerebros o ¡Atraco!. BiographyAmaia Salamanca was born in Madrid, Spain on 28 March 1986. Initially, she was not planning to go into acting, but in her first audition, for SMS, the television channel TV company LaSexta gave her first acting job. In SMS, she worked with other young film and television actors such as Yon González, Mario Casas and María Castro. She made a theater debut in 2009 with The Marquise of O, by Heinrich von Kleist. In 2010 she played Letizia Ortiz in the TV movie Felipe y Letizia. From 2011-2013, she starred in opposite Yon González in tv serie Gran Hotel, which became one of the most successful Spanish tv series in tv history, and often named as the Spanish Downton Abbey. She will lead the Spanish-Canadian co-production Webcam directed by Antoni Sole. Besides her work as an actress, Amaia works as a model for photo shoots, video clips and shows. In October 2020, Salamanca became an ambassador for Codorníu and the protagonist of its new campaign 'Live to celebrate'. BiografíaAmaia Salamanca nació en Los Berrocales de Jarama (Madrid) con orígenes vizcaínos. Inicialmente no pensaba dedicarse a la interpretación. Antes de conseguir su primer papel como actriz, Amaia ya había trabajado en campañas publicitarias para grandes empresas como Telecable y Movistar, como modelo de Marco Aldany en tres exposiciones e imagen de la firma Blue Image. Su primer papel como actriz lo obtuvo en 2006 al lograr ser uno de los protagonistas en la serie juvenil SMS(sin miedo a soñar). En ella encarnó durante 185 capítulos a Paula Dejardains Gómez-De Iridutia. Concluida su participación en la serie se incorporó al reparto de Sin tetas no hay paraíso como Catalina. Su historia de amor con actor Miguel Ángel Silvestre(como El Duque) dio gran popularidad a ambos. En 2009 se estrenó en la gran pantalla con la comedia Fuga de cerebros, con buenos resultados en taquilla. Ese mismo año debutó también en el teatro, en la obra La marquesa de O del escritor alemán Heinrich von Kleist. A finales de año, se emitió en Telecinco el telefilme Felipe y Letizia donde interpretaba como protagonista a Letizia Ortiz. En 2011 se unió al reparto de Gran Hotel, serie ambientada en los inicios del siglo XX para Antena 3, donde dio vida a Alicia Alarcón hasta 2013. En febrero de 2014 se incorporó al elenco de la serie de Antena 3, Velvet en la que encarnó a Bárbara de Senillosa durante tres temporadas. Esto supuso su reencuentro televisivo con el actor Miguel Ángel Silvestre(como Alberto Márquez) después de haber protagonizado Sin tetas no hay paraíso.
Tras ello, en diciembre de 2015 la actriz dejó la serie en su tercera temporada debido a que comenzaría el rodaje de otra serie para esa misma cadena, La embajada, donde interpreta desde su estreno en abril de 2016 el personaje de Fátima. La serie consiguió en su primer capítulo reunir a más de cuatro millones de telespectadores. Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most influential directors of all time, Lean directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). He also directed two adaptations of Charles Dickens novels, Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), as well as the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945). Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's In Which We Serve, which was the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward. Beginning with Summertime in 1955, Lean began to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film Ryan's Daughter led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned a number of film projects which never came to fruition. In 1984 he had a career revival with A Passage to India, adapted from E. M. Forster's novel; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct. Lean's affinity for pictorialism and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Ridley Scott. Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors' Top Directors" poll in 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, which he won twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five) and was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990. BiographyDavid Lean was born on 25 March 1908 at 38 Blenheim Crescent, South Croydon, Surrey (now part of Greater London), to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye. His parents were Quakers and he was a pupil at the Quaker-founded Leighton Park School in Reading. His younger brother, Edward Tangye Lean (1911–1974), founded the original Inklings literary club when a student at Oxford University. When Lean was aged ten, his uncle gave him a Brownie box camera. "You usually didn't give a boy a camera until he was 16 or 17 in those days. It was a huge compliment and I succeeded at it.' Lean printed and developed his films, and it was his 'great hobby'. Lean was a half-hearted schoolboy with a dreamy nature who was labeled a "dud" of a student. In 1923, his father deserted the family and Lean would later follow a similar path after his own first marriage and child. In the Christmas Term of 1926, Lean left school at the age of 18 and entered his father's chartered accountancy firm as an apprentice. Bored by his work, Lean spent every evening in the cinema, and in 1927, after an aunt had advised him to find a job he enjoyed, he visited Gaumont Studios where his obvious enthusiasm earned him a month's trial without pay. He was taken on as a teaboy, promoted to clapperboy, and soon rose to the position of third assistant director. By 1930 he was working as an editor on newsreels, including those of Gaumont Pictures and Movietone, while his move to feature films began with Freedom of the Seas (1934) and Escape Me Never (1935). He has also edited two film productions of two George Bernard Shaw plays, Pygmalion (1938) and Major Barbara (1941). Lean began his directing career, after editing more than two dozen features by 1942. His first work as a director was in collaboration with Noël Coward on In Which We Serve (1942), and he later adapted several of Coward's plays into successful films, including This Happy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit (1945) and Brief Encounter (1945). The film shared Grand Prix honors at the 1946 Cannes film festival and garnered Lean his first Academy nominations for directing and screen adaptation, and Celia Johnson who played the female lead a nomination for Best Actress. It has since become a classic, one of the most highly regarded British films. Two celebrated Charles Dickens adaptations followed – Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). The next film directed by Lean was The Passionate Friends (1949), an atypical Lean film, and the first of three films to feature the actress Ann Todd, who became his third wife. The last of the films with Todd, The Sound Barrier (1952), has a screenplay by the playwright Terence Rattigan and was the first of his three films for Sir Alexander Korda's London Films. Summertime (1955) marked a new departure for Lean. It was partly American financed, although again made for Korda's London Films. The film features Katharine Hepburn in the lead role as a middle-aged American woman who has a romance while on holiday in Venice. It was shot entirely on location there. Lean's films now began to become infrequent but much larger in scale and more extensively released internationally. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) was based on a novel by Pierre Boulle recounting the story of British and American prisoners of war trying to survive in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. The film stars William Holden and Alec Guinness and became the highest-grossing film of 1957 in the United States. It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness, who had battled with Lean to give more depth to his role as an obsessively correct British commander who is determined to build the best possible bridge for his Japanese captors in Burma. After extensive location work in the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, and elsewhere, Lean's Lawrence of Arabia was released in 1962. It recounts the life of T. E. Lawrence(played by Peter O'Toole), the British officer who is depicted in the film as uniting the squabbling Bedouin peoples of the Arab peninsula to fight in World War I and then push on for independence. French composer Maurice Jarre, on his first Lean film, created a soaring film score with a famous theme and won his first Oscar for Best Original Score. The film turned actor Peter O'Toole, playing Lawrence, into an international star, and was nominated for ten Oscars and won seven, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director. He remains the only British director to win more than one Oscar for directing. Lean had his greatest box-office success with Doctor Zhivago (1965), a romance set during the Russian Revolution. The film, based on the banned novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet Boris Pasternak, tells the story of a brilliant and warm-hearted physician and poet Yuri (played by Omar Sharif) who, while seemingly happily married into the Russian aristocracy, and a father, falls in love with a beautiful abandoned young mother named Lara (played Julie Christie) and struggles to be with her in the chaos of the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War. As of 2020, it is the 9th highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. Producer Carlo Ponti used Maurice Jarre's lush romantic score to create a pop tune called "Lara's Theme", which became an international hit song with lyrics under the title "Somewhere My Love", one of cinema's most successful theme songs. The British director of photography, Freddie Young, won an Academy Award for his color cinematography. Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970) was released after an extended period on location in Ireland. A doomed romance set against the backdrop of 1916 Ireland's struggles against the British, it is loosely based on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. The film received far fewer positive reviews than the director's previous work, being particularly savaged by the New York critics. Nonetheless, the film was a box office success, earning $31 million and making it the 8th highest-grossing film of that year. It won two Academy Awards the following year, another for cinematographer Freddie Young. The poor critical reception of the film prompted Lean to meet with the National Society of Film Critics, gathered at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, including The New Yorker's Pauline Kael, and ask them why they objected to the movie. These critics so lacerated the film for two hours to David Lean's face that the devastated Lean was put off from making films for a long time. During the last years of his life, Lean was in pre-production of a film version of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo. From 1977 until 1980, Lean and Robert Bolt worked on a film adaptation of Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian, a dramatized account by Richard Hough of the Mutiny on the Bounty. After Bolt suffered a serious stroke and was unable to continue writing, however, Lean was forced to abandon the project after overseeing casting and the construction of the $4 million Bounty replica as the director felt that Bolt's involvement would be crucial to the film's success. The film's producer, Italian mogul Dino De Laurentiis did not want to lose the millions he had already put into the project over what he thought was as insignificant a person as the director dropping out. The film was eventually released as The Bounty. Lean then embarked on a project he had pursued since 1960, a film adaptation of A Passage to India (1984), from E. M. Forster's 1924 novel of colonial conflicts in British-occupied India. Entirely shot on location in the sub-continent, this became his last completed film. He rejected a draft by Santha Rama Rau, responsible for the stage adaptation and Forster's preferred screenwriter, and wrote the script himself. In addition, Lean also edited the film with the result that his three roles in the production (writer, editor, director) were given equal status in the credits. Lean recruited long-time collaborators for the cast and crew, including Maurice Jarre (who won another Academy Award for the score), Alec Guinness in his sixth and final role for Lean, as an eccentric Hindu Brahmin, and John Box, the production designer for Dr. Zhivago. The film opened to universally enthusiastic reviews and was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and Lean himself nominated for three Academy Awards in directing, editing, and writing. His female star, an English woman played by Australian actress Judy Davis her first Academy nomination. Peggy Ashcroft, as the sensitive Mrs. Moore, won the Oscar for best supporting actress, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win that award. He was signed on to direct a Warner Bros.-backed adaptation of J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun. Steven Spielberg, who was brought on board as a producer for Lean, later assumed the role of director when Lean dropped out of the project; Spielberg was drawn to the idea of making the film due to his long-time admiration for Lean and his films. Empire of the Sun was released in 1987. The Nostromo project involved several writers whose work was abandoned. In the end, Lean decided to write the film himself with the assistance of Maggie Unsworth with whom he had worked on the scripts for Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and The Passionate Friends. Nostromo had a total budget of $46 million and was six weeks away from filming at the time of Lean's death from throat cancer and interment at Putney Vale Cemetery. Nostromo was finally adapted for the small screen with an unrelated BBC television mini-series in 1997. Lean was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1953, and was knighted for his contributions and services to the arts in 1984. Lean received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990. Lean was married six times, had one son, and at least two grandchildren—from all of whom he was completely estranged—and was divorced five times. He was survived by his last wife, art dealer Sandra Cooke, the co-author (with Barry Chattington) of David Lean: An Intimate Portrait (2001),[10] as well as Peter Lean, his son from his first marriage. His six wives were:
In 1999, the British Film Institute compiled its list of the Top 100 British films; seven of Lean's films appeared on the list:
He directed more films that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the Oscars than any other director, with five wins out of six nominations for Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter—the last nomination being for A Passage to India. As Lean himself pointed out, his films are often admired by fellow directors as a showcase of the filmmaker's art. Lean was also notorious for his perfectionist approach to filmmaking; director Claude Chabrol stated that he and Lean were the only directors working at the time who were prepared to wait "forever" for the perfect sunset, but whereas Chabrol measured "forever" in terms of days, Lean did so in terms of months.
Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese in particular are fans of Lean's epic films and claim him as one of their primary influences. Spielberg and Scorsese also helped in the 1989 restoration of Lawrence of Arabia, which had been substantially altered both by the studio in theatrical release and in particular in its televised versions; the theatrical re-release greatly revived Lean's reputation. Several of the many other later twentieth century directors who have acknowledged significant influence by Lean include Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Spike Lee, and Sergio Leone. |
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