Editing Ricardo Montalbán (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Ricardo Montalban and Georgiana Young.png|thumb|Montalbán with wife [[Georgiana Young]] ({{circa|1950}})]]
After seeing [[Georgiana Young]] in ''[[The Story of Alexander Graham Bell]]'' (1939), then-18-year-old Montalbán became enamored of the 15-year-old Young{{snd}}half-sister of actresses [[Sally Blane]], [[Polly Ann Young]], and [[Loretta Young]].<ref name=PeopleRandG>{{cite magazine |title=Cast Off in Hollywood, Ricardo Montalban Lands Safely on 'Fantasy Island' |first=Martha |last=Smilgis |date=1978-04-18 |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |volume=9 |issue=15 |url=https://people.com/archive/cast-off-in-hollywood-ricardo-montalban-lands-safely-on-fantasy-island-vol-9-no-15/ |access-date=2023-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029110436/https://people.com/archive/cast-off-in-hollywood-ricardo-montalban-lands-safely-on-fantasy-island-vol-9-no-15/ |archive-date=2020-10-29 |url-status=live}}</ref> Montalbán had started his own stage and film career by the time the two met on a blind date; Montalbán proposed that evening, later stating "It took a week to persuade her."<ref name=PeopleRandG/> They married in 1944, and had four children together: Laura, Mark, Anita and Victor.<ref name=SUAVE /><ref>{{cite web |last= Evanier |first= Mark |url= http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_01_14.html |work= News From Me Archives |title= Wednesday January 14, 2009 – Ricardo Montalban, R.I.P. |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090218225132/http://newsfromme.com/archives/2009_01_14.html |archive-date= February 18, 2009 }}</ref> After 63 years of marriage, Young died in 2007, at age 83.<ref name=LATObit/>
 
Montalbán was a practicing Catholic, once claiming that his religion was the most important thing in his life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholicweb.com/media_index.cfm?fuseaction=view_article&partnerid=18&article_id=547|publisher=CatholicWeb.com|title=Ricardo Montalbán receives first Spirit of Angelus Award at student film festival|access-date=October 24, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204005609/http://www.catholicweb.com/media_index.cfm?fuseaction=view_article&partnerid=18&article_id=547|archive-date=December 4, 2007}}</ref> He was a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodshepherdbh.org/a-city-on-a-hill/our-history|title=Our History - Church of the Good Shepherd|website=Church of the Good Shepherd|access-date=October 30, 2017}}</ref> In 1998, [[Pope John Paul II]] made him a Knight of the [[Order of St. Gregory the Great]] (KSG),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-03-me-4531-story.html|title=L.A. Times Online|author=Worley, Lloyd|date=January 1998|publisher=The Religious and Military Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040824140201/http://www.greeleynet.com/~maxalla/OKHSSub/Gallantry.html|archive-date=August 24, 2004|access-date=March 29, 2012}}</ref> the highest honor a Roman Catholic lay person can receive from the Church.<ref name=lat/> In 1986, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, he recorded a [[public service announcement]] celebrating the United States' generosity and hospitality to him as a foreign-born actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://video.aol.com/video-detail/ricardo-montalban-liberty-minute-psa-1986/279466912/?icid=VIDURVENT08|title=AOL.com Video|publisher=Video.aol.com|access-date=March 29, 2012}}</ref>

His autobiography ''Reflections: A Life in Two Worlds'' was published in January 1980 by Doubleday.<ref>{{cite book|title=Reflections: A Life in Two Worlds|last=Montalbán |first=Ricardo|author2=Thomas, Bob|year=1980 |publisher=Doubleday|location=Garden City, NY|isbn=978-0-385-12878-0|url=https://archive.org/details/reflectionslifei00mont|url-access=registration}}</ref>

For many years, Montalbán followed a strict diet and physical training regimen, giving him an enviable physique. After the release of ''The Wrath of Khan'', director [[Nicholas Meyer]] was quick to quell rumors of Montalbán using prosthetics during filming.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2017/09/10/ricardo-montalbans-chest-real-or-fake-star-trek-wrath-of-khan/603958001/|title='Star Trek: Wrath of Khan' director: Quit asking if Ricardo Montalban's chest is fake|website=[[USA Today]]|date=September 10, 2017}}</ref>

In 2005,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secretary.unm.edu/awards/honorary_degrees/|title=Honorary degrees :: Office of the University Secretary|website=secretary.unm.edu}}</ref> Montalbán was due to receive an honorary doctorate from the [[University of New Mexico]], but due to circumstances was unable to attend the ceremony. On May 13, 2023, Montalbán was posthumously awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from UNM, which was received by his granddaughter Lydia Martinez.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cT01pGEpTw|title=Spring 2023 #UNMGrad Stream|date=May 13, 2023 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> 

===Death===
On January 14, 2009, Montalbán died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 88. According to his son-in-law, Gilbert Smith, he died of "complications from advancing age".<ref name=LATObit>{{cite news |title=Ricardo Montalbán dies at 88; 'Fantasy Island' actor |first=Lorenza |last=Muñoz |date=January 15, 2009 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-montalban15-2009jan15%2C0%2C4189863.story |access-date=January 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117121735/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-montalban15-2009jan15,0,4189863.story |archive-date=2009-01-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> The precise cause of death was revealed to be congestive heart failure.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/arts/15montalban.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries "Ricardo Montalbán, Star of 'Fantasy Island', Dies at 88"], ''The New York Times'', Thursday, January 15, 2009.</ref><ref name="NYDailyNews">{{cite news|date=January 15, 2008|title=Mexican-American actor Ricardo Montalbán dies at 88|newspaper=New York Daily News|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2009/01/14/2009-01-14_mexicanamerican_actor_ricardo_montalban_.html|access-date=January 15, 2009|archive-date=June 1, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601064642/http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2009/01/14/2009-01-14_mexicanamerican_actor_ricardo_montalban_.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is buried in the [[Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City|Holy Cross Cemetery]] in [[Culver City, California]].