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<\/p>\nLisa Montell, a starlet in the 1950s and \u201960s who appeared in such films as World Without End opposite Rod Taylor and Ten Thousand Bedrooms alongside Dean Martin, has died. She was 89.<\/p>\n
Montell died in Southern California Hospital at Van Nuys of heart problems and sepsis, her daughter, Shireen Janti, told The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n
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A native of Poland, Montell portrayed characters of various ethnicities during her career. In Naked Paradise (1957) and She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), directed back-to-back in Kauai by Roger Corman, she played Hawaiians.
\nShe also showed up on several TV Westerns, including The Gene Autry Show, Broken Arrow, Tales of Wells Fargo, Colt .45, Have Gun \u2014 Will Travel, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, Bat Masterson and Maverick.<\/p>\n
In the sci-fi feature World Without End (1956), written and directed by Edward Bernds, Montell portrayed a woman on Earth in the 26th century, hundreds of years after a devastating atomic war, who falls for an accidental time-traveling astronaut (Taylor).<\/p>\n
And in the musical comedy Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) \u2014 Martin\u2019s first film after he and Jerry Lewis split up their act \u2014 she was sisters with Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok and Lisa Gaye in Rome.
\nBorn Irena Ludmilla Vladimiovna Augustinovich in Warsaw on July 5, 1933, she and her family fled to the U.S. before the Nazi invasion of their country in 1939. They settled in New York City.<\/p>\n
She studied drama at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, the High School of Performing Arts and the University of Miami, then moved to Lima, Peru, when her dad, Walery, landed a job with a mining company.<\/p>\n
In 1953, she was spotted in a play and made her onscreen debut in The Daughter of the Sun God, filmed in Peru \u2014 that movie, however, would not be released until 1962 \u2014 and came to Los Angeles after her father died.<\/p>\n
She appeared in five films released in 1955 \u2014 Escape to Burma, Jump Into Hell, Daddy Long Legs, Finger Man and Pearl of the South Pacific \u2014 and portrayed a ballet dancer in the Leslie Caron-starring Gaby (1956).<\/p>\n
Her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 also included other films like Tomahawk Trail (1957), The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958) and The Firebrand (1962) and episodes of The Millionaire, Wire Service, The Ann Sothern Show, Surfside 6, Mike Hammer, The Magical World of Walt Disney and 77 Sunset Strip.
\nShe left acting in the mid-1960s, worked on a local TV show with Tom Bradley and served in his administration after he was elected L.A. mayor.<\/p>\n
In addition to her daughter, whom she had with her husband, actor David Janti, survivors include her granddaughter, Tatiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lisa Montell, a starlet in the 1950s and \u201960s who appeared in such films as World Without End opposite Rod Taylor and Ten Thousand Bedrooms alongside Dean Martin, has died. She was 89. Montell died in Southern California Hospital at Van Nuys of heart problems and sepsis, her daughter, Shireen Janti, told The Hollywood Reporter. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial"],"yoast_head":"\n