Highest rated movie: The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)
Lowest rated movie: She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
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Looking for reviews of Lisa Montell movies? Cinafilm has a total of 23 reviews across 6 movies.
Movies starring Lisa Montell have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 49%.
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold - released in 1958 - is Lisa Montell's highest rated movie, with a score of 66% based on 7 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Lisa Montell is She Gods of Shark Reef - released in 1958 - with a score of 30% based on 2 reviews.
Lisa Janti (born July 5, 1933) is known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, and then shifted her career to one of advocacy and service to various disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Bahá'í Faith.
Lisa Janti, known as Lisa Montell as a Hollywood actress of the 1950-60s, was born Irena Ludmila Vladimirovna Augustynowic of Russian-Polish ancestry, and her family fled to Poland before World War II. On arrival in New York they changed their last name to Montwill so she grew up Irene Montwill. They lived in New York and Janti attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After becoming involved in English-speaking theatre she was noticed by Hollywood producer Dick Welding who offered her a part in Daughter of the Sun God, filmed in Peru c. 1953 with actor William Holmes. Shortly afterwards her father died and the family chose to follow the opportunity Hollywood was giving her with her career. Her first role may have been in 1954 in the TV series The Public Defender, based on the film of the same name.
On television she was on the Cheyenne show episode "Border Showdown" (Showdown in Paso Also) of 1955 and the 1956 Jane Wyman's Fireside Theater episode "A Time to live" and the Sugarfoot show episode "Guns for Big Bear" in 1958. In 1962 she was in Combat! episode "A Day in June".
Janti was known as the "Starlet of many faces" probably portraying more diverse ethnic roles though she was Polish including Polynesian, Native American, Mexican, Burmese, French, Italian, Spanish, east Indian and Persian – roles with dubious cultural and sexist stereotypes. Among the productions Janti was cast in are She Gods of Shark Reef, Ten Thousand Bedrooms, Pearl of the South Pacific, Jump Into Hell, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, and World Without End.
Lisa Montell has acted in films with John Close, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Dean Martin and Hugh Marlowe.
Lisa Montell has worked with these film directors: Roger Corman, Lesley Selander, Edward Bernds and Allan Dwan.
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