YVONNE DE CARLO 1954 - 1955 - 1956

These were some of the films and plays being shown in São Paulo on the IV Centenary week-end.

24 January 1954 - at Cine Joia one could see the adventures of the 'Sea devils' (Gigantes em fúria) with stunningly beautiful Yvonne de Carlo and dashing Rock Hudson.

Yvonne de Carlo tries to help a shirtless Rock Hudson. Hudson's physique would never do nowadays with such a toneless torso. Without going through a thorough work-out period at a gym to tonify his flabby muscles he would not even have had the part to start with.

28 January 1954 - At Cine Marrocos, just a few days before it would show the Festival, Yvonne De Carlo stars in 'Fort Algier' (O forte da coragem) with German-Argentine Carlos Thompson.  

24 January 1954 - At Teatro Brasileiro de Comedia, Tonia Carrero & Paulo Autran in André Roussin's 'Uma certa cabana...' (1947's 'La petite hutte') directed by Adolfo Celi.

TBC (Brazilian Theatre of Comedy) a thetrical company started by Italian impresario Franco Zampari in 1948 on Rua Major Diogo, 315. Two plays opened the new theatre: Jean Cocteau's 'La voix humaine' with Henriette Morineau acting in French and Abilio Pereira de Almeida's 'A mulher do proximo' with Grupo de Teatro Experimental directed by Alfredo Mesquita.

In 1949, TBC becomes a professional company with William Saroyan's 'Nick Bar... alcool, brinquedos e ambição' directed by Italian national Adolfo Celi. Franco Zampari, who left Italy after the end of WWII intended to make S.Paulo a hub for Italian expatriates without work in a post-Fascist Italy. Great talents like Luciano Salce, Ruggero Jacobbi, Flaminio Bollini, Alberto D'Aversa, Gianni Ratto plus Belgian Maurice Vaneau and Polish Ziembinski moved from Europe to S.Paulo to contribute to the local cultural scene. Some of these people have returned to Italy in the late 1950s and early 1960s.  

24 January 1954 - At Cine-Theatro Odeon 'Folia no Centenário', a great extravaganza with Mary Gonçalves who had been Rainha do Radio (Radio Queen) for 1952. Mary had started as an actress in films then branched out recording 78 rpm and singing on the radio. Her 1952 album 'Convite ao Romance' for Sinter is considered a breakthrough by music historians. 

24 January 1954 - At Teatro de Cultura Artistica, Companhia Israelita de Comedias presents Benzion Witler and Sofia Lerer in 'Der freilicher Soldat'.

24 January 1954 - Park Shanghai was Sao Paulo's equivalent to Buenos Aires's Luna Park, New York's Coney Island Amusement Park or  Sydney's Luna Park (the only one still in existence in 2015). Note that accordion player Mario Zan, o Rei da Sanfona, performed live at the main theatre only for this particular day.

Praça da Sé, Sao Paulo, 25 January 1954.

24 January 1954 - in a story loosely based on Voltaire's 'Candide', playwright Abilio Pereira de Almeida wrote the screenplay and directed the movie as 'O Candinho' which made comedian Mazzaropi a star overnight.

27 January 1954 - Things were really humming during the 'Festival de Cinema Internacional do Brasil' happened in Sao Paulo from 12 to 26 February 1954. Here you see journalist Claudio Abramo (centre) talking with Marjorie Lamee (left) and Mrs. Mervyn LeRoy (right); illustrated weekly-magazine 'O Cruzeiro' (6 March 1954) tells all about the Cinema Festival and shows all the photos taken from the Hollywood stars that stayed in the city from 19 to 26 February 1954.

Mervyn LeRoy & Edward G.Robinson in Sao Paulo for the Festival; LeRoy directed Robinson in 'Little Caesar' 23 years earlier in 1931; the gangster movie was a blockbuster and made them both famous and rich.

Edward G. Robinson 23 years earlier as Mervyn LeRoy's 'Little Caesar'.

28 February 1954 - Even though 'Carnaval em Caxias' refers to Duque de Caxias-RJ, a city in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area, it was touted as celebration of Sao Paulo's IV Centenary. Any bald lie for a fast buck or as Cole Porter used to say in the 1920s: Anything goes! This is one of comedian José Lewgoy's best role where he sends up local political boss Tenorio Cavalcanti and his infamous machine-gun nicknamed 'Lurdinha'. Lewgoy plays a gun-totting hoodlum who bullies a whole town (Caxias) until he falls in love with a cabaret singer (Josette Bertal). Popular songstress Doris Monteiro plays a waitress in the saloon.

Songs galore starting with: 'Marcha da penicilina' (Armando Cavalcanti-Klecius Caldas) sung by Linda Baptista; 'Se eu fosse Getúlio' (Roberto Roberti-Arlindo Marques Jr.) march sung by Nelson Gonçalves; 'Mulher que é mulher' (Klecius Caldas-Armando Cavalcanti) samba sung by Dyrcinha Baptista; 'Que saudade é essa?' (Peterpan) sung by Nora Ney; 'O Miguel é o maior' (Herve Cordovil-Pascoal José-Marcilio Vieira) baiao sung by Carmelia Alves; 'Seu Honório' (Felicia Godoy-Humberto Teixeira) sung by Carmelia Alves; 'Abre alas' (Belem-B.Lobo-Hinha) samba sung by Jorge Goulart; 'Em Mangueira' (Mario Camargo-Orlando Soares Filho) samba sung by Doris Monteiro; 'Lama' (Aylce Chaves-Paulo Marques) sung by Linda Rodrigues.

14 February 1954 - Rio de Janeiro daily 'Imprensa Popular' -

3 May 1959 - Jules Dassin's 1947's 'Brute force' (Brutalidade) had Burt Lancaster & Yvonne De Carlo together for the 1st time. Lancaster & De Carlo would be reunited for 'Criss cross' in 1949, directed by Robert Siodmak.

6 October 1954 - It looks like 1954 was Yvonne De Carlo's year. At least in Sao Paulo, various of her movies were released or re-released. 'Hurricane Smith' was dubbed 'A rebelião dos piratas' (Pirates' rebellion') in Portuguese. Read more about it at: http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=50570

1st May 1956 - British comedy called 'Happy ever after' released in 1954, it was renamed  'Tonight's the night' in the USA; Brazilians decided to call it 'A morte do fantasma' (The ghost's death) and so it goes...

30 September 1956 - Gorgeous Yvonne De Carlo in 'Flame of the islands' (Um amor proibido) with Howard Duff and Zachary Scott released in the USA on 6 January 1956.

25 May 1958 - 3rd week at luxurious Cine Paisandu, 'Band of Angels' (Meu pecado foi nascer) in which Yvonne De Carlo plays a light-coloured-skin slave to Clark Gable's slave-master...
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Yvonne De Carlo, Clark Gable, Jack Warner, ... & Raoul Walsh in the set of 'Band of Angels'.

Yvonne De Carlo & Sidney Poitier.

18 March 1960 - This is the invitation Rio de Janeiro's 'Correio da Manhã' made to all its readers: to go to Airport Santos Dumont to welcome Yvonne De Carlo who would arrive on a Real airplane to be the highlight in the premiere of 'The Ten Commandments' at Cine Opera the following day. 

Eve Arden & Yvonne De Carlo. 

Eve Arden, Charles Kullman, Jean Aumont, Yvonne De Carlo & director Walter Reisch, relaxing on the set of 'Song of Scheherazade' in Hollywood, CA, circa 1947.

Yvonne De Carlo & C&W singer Jimmy Dean (holding his guitar in hand).

The photo is autographed by Yvonne saying: 'I love you, guys, Yvonne De Carlo.... unlike most of her photos which are cheesecake-posed photographs, they look like they are having fun dancing and singing.... Jimmy Dean has his guitar in hand....great photo....the autograph is signed at the bottom right corner.

4 April 1971 - as late as 1971, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia's 'La spada e la croce' (The Sword and the Cross) is a 1958 Italian religious drama film starring Yvonne De Carlo as Mary Magdalene. Shot in English and later dubbed in Italian, the film was released in the United States in 1960 as 'Mary Magdalene'.

De Carlo was signed for the film in May 1958. C.L.Bragaglia, later remembered that the producer, Ottavio Poggi, had sent the provisional script to America, so Yvonne De Carlo could read it and decide on her participation in the film. She read it and got very excited, agreeing to play the role of Magdalene.