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Laranja Da China
''Laranja da China'' is a Brazilian musical film released in 1940, produced by Wallace Downey and directed by Ruy Costa. Plot Dr. Flores is a conservative citizen, he is member of the League Against Malandragem and forbids his daughter Camélia (Dircinha Batista) dating a bohemian sambista. Cast *Barbosa Júnior ... Ferdinando Flores *Nair Alves ... Perpétua *Dircinha Batista ... Camélia *Paulo Neto ... Chefe da Liga *Lauro Borges ... Salchich *Arnaldo Amaral ... Arnaldo *Grande Otelo ... Boneco de Piche *Pedro Vargas ... *Carmen Miranda Carmen Miranda, (; born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, 9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress and film star who was active from the late 1920s onwards. Nicknamed "The B ...... *César Ladeira ... *Edmundo Maia ... *Cora Costa ... *Alvarenga ... *Francisco Alves ... *Manezinho Araújo ... *Joel de Almeida ... References External links * 1940 musical comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Downey
Wallace Downey (New York City, May 14, 1902 – New York City, January 29, 1978) was an American film producer and director. In 1928 Wallace Downey, an executive of Columbia Records, was sent to South America to install a Brazilian branch for his company. He quickly realized Brazil was an entertainment hot bed for potential markets in records and films. Castro, Ruy in " Carmen - Uma Biografia" - Companhia das Letras, 2005 In 1931 Downey produced and directed, ''Coisas Nossas'', the first successful Brazilian film with sound. His 1935 film, ''Hello, Hello Brazil!'', first introduced radio singer and actress Carmen Miranda to a larger audience paving the way to her international fame at 20th Century Fox in the United States. Downey later founded his own production company, Waldow S.A., in a partnership with Cinédia, producing musical films. In 1938 Downey disbanded Waldow S.A., using the resources to create a new production company, Sonofilms. Selected filmography Directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers". The musical film was a natural development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of lavish background scenery and locations that would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater; performers often treat their song and dance numbers as if a live audience were watching. In a sense, the viewer becomes the diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s, musicals gained popularity with the public and are exemplified by the films of Busby Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinemateca Brasileira
The Cinemateca Brasileira is the institution responsible for preserving Brazilian audiovisual production. In July 2021, it experienced a major fire. Since 1940, it has been developing activities around the dissemination and restoration of its collection, with around 250 thousand rolls of films and more than one million documents related to cinema. It is located in Largo Senador Raul Cardoso, São Paulo. The building previously acted as the Old Municipal Slaughterhouse of São Paulo from 1887 to 1927. It had the largest collection of "moving images" in Latin America and is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world. It preserved a large part of the nation's cinematographic content and houses the greatest collection of Brazilian cinema, with more than 250,000 rolls of film. These corresponded to 45,000-90,000 titles among the works produced since 1895. The library collection consisted of more than 1,000,000 documents, including censorship certificates, invitations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dircinha Batista
Dirce Grandino de Oliveira (April 7, 1922 – June 18, 1999), known as Dircinha Batista, was a Brazilian actress and singer. Biography Daughter of the singer/composer/ventriloquist Batista Júnior and sister of Linda Batista, Dircinha Batista was a very successful Brazilian singer. In a career of more than forty years she recorded over three hundred 78RPM discs with many big hits, especially Carnaval songs. She worked in sixteen Brazilian movies and was a child prodigy. Dircinha began performing at festivals at age six. She began to participate in her father's shows in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo beginning in 1928. Dircinha and her sister Linda Batista became famous while still young and soon won the admiration of the then-president Getúlio Vargas, who considered the Batista sisters a "national heritage". She became RCA Victor's leading seller over the 1940s and 1950s. In the '60s at the height of her career, Dircinha was already struggling with depression and was hospital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grande Otelo
Grande Otelo (October 18, 1915 – November 26, 1993) was the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata. Otelo was born in Uberlândia, and was orphaned as a child. He kept running away from the families that adopted him; only when he took up art did his life become settled. Grande Otelo started his film career in 1935 in the movie ''Noites Cariocas''. He was also renowned for the comic duo he formed with Oscarito. He died, aged 78, in Charles de Gaulle Airport, near Paris, France and was buried in São Pedro cemetery in Uberlândia, Brazil Biography 1920: Childhood and Youth Otelo was the son of Antenor Prata and Maria das Dores de Souza. His father, who was a cowboy, died when Sebastião was only two years old. Acording to the actor himself, his career in acting began a few short years after in UIberlândia in 1924 in a circus ring:''"To me, the first entry that I made was beautiful because I was already a city clow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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