Gloria Montero

Gloria Montero (b. 1933)[1] is a writer and documentary filmmaker.

Montero was born to Spanish immigrants in Australia.[2] She lived in Toronto from 1955 to 1978.[1] As of 1973, Montero was the Executive-secretary of the Canadian Committee for a Democratic Spain,[3] and as of 1975, its President.[4] The organization opposed fascism in the country.

Her book The Immigrants (1977) included pieces of interviews with over 400 people, talking about their experiences.[2] The same year, she hosted a series for CBC Radio called The Music of Spain. A second series, spanning 13 weeks, aired in 1980.[5]

Montero and David Fulton moved from 1978. As of 1980, they were known to have been living in the old quarter of Barcelona, Spain with their teenaged son, Miguel.[5] Her daughter, actress Allegra Fulton, stayed in Canada.[5] She would later star in her mother's one-woman show Frida K., about Frida Kahlo at the 1994 Fringe of Toronto Festival.[6] The production was The Globe and Mail critic's second favourite production that year.[7]

In 1980, she released the book We Stood Together, a history of Canadian trade unions.[5] She was working on a book about Canadians in the Spanish Civil War.[5]

The Archives of Ontario has preserved four of her documentary films in its holdings as the Gloria Montero and David Fulton fonds (F 4368, 1975-1984).[1]

As of 1980, she was known to be friends of pianist Jordi Sabates and Tete Montoliu.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gloria Montero and David Fulton fonds". Archives of Ontario. Province of Ontario. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 George Woodcock, “The Immigrants”, The Globe and Mail, 22 October 1977, 43.
  3. ↑ Gloria Montero, “Spain (letter)”, The Globe and Mail, 4 September 1973.
  4. ↑ Gloria Montero, “Spain's real scandal is ultra-right terrorism, reader says (letter)”, The Globe and Mail, 10 January 1975.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Elina MacNiven, “A taste of Spain”, The Globe and Mail, 2 February 1980, F28.
  6. ↑ H. J. Kirchroff, “Finding the diamonds among the gravel”, The Globe and Mail, 2 July 1994, C6.
  7. ↑ H. J. Kirchroff, “Dawn of a stunning spectacle”, The Globe and Mail, 6 July 1994, E3.
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