Carmen Santos (8 June 1904 – 24 September 1952) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and

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. Santos began acting at the age of fifteen, and started producing films from 1930 onwards with '' Blood of Minas Gerais''. She founded her own film studio

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in Rio de Janeiro. Santos directed the 1948 film ''

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'', in which she also starred.Marsh p. 4

Selected filmography

* '' Blood of Minas Gerais'' (1930) * ''

'' (1948)

References

Bibliography

* Marsh, Leslie. ''Brazilian Women's Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy''. University of Illinois Press, 2012. * Shaw, Lisa & Dennison, Stephanie. ''Brazilian National Cinema''. Routledge, 2014.

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