9 July 1961 - Norma Benguel in Jorge Ileli's 'Mulheres & milhões' premieres in Rio de Janeiro 3 months before it is released in Sao Paulo; note that Luely Figueiró is introduced as 'the singer Luely Figueiró'.
14 July 1961 - Jorge Ileli's 'Mulheres & milhões' is hailed as the best Brazilian movie in a long time...
4 July 1961 - MGM's 1954 production 'The last time I saw Paris' (A última vez que vi Paris) returns... just to prove that Elizabeth Taylor was at the peak of her beauty 7 years earlier...
24 July 1961 -
20 August 1961 - OESP cinema columnist is so excited by the presence of Viveva Lindfors & Betty Field in São Paulo he can't contain himself...
20 August 1961 - Eliana Macedo's last film as a star where she acts with Trio Irakitan and Herval Rossano.
20 August 1961 - German cinema was not as strong as it was in the 1950s but Horst Buchholz was still popular in the international circuit.
7 September 1961 - the first of MGM's productions for the teenager-market: 'Where the boys are' quaintly translated as 'Bastam dois para amar' - introduced rock singer Connie Francis and Paula Prentiss in their first film plus George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux & Jim Hutton who would appear in many other similar pot-boilers.
30 July 1961 - Italian singer Teddy Reno in his 4th German-language flick this time 'Traumrevue' ('...E o espetáculo é fabuloso) released in 1959 with Bavarian born German actress Susi Nicoletti (real name: Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack).
20 August 1961 - I wish I could have seen 'Rocco e i suoi fratelli' (Rocco e seus irmãos) with Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot & Claudia Cardinale... but I was only 12 years old and it one had to be 18 or older to get passed the ticket-taking man at the entrance of Cine Olido.
Annie Girardot & Alain Delon in the Duomo, Milan...
17 September 1961 - a Brazilian-USA co-production filmed in São Paulo and São Vicente, 'A moça do quarto 13 ' (Girl in room 13).
A letter summons US detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband only in self-defense. In the meantime, Marshall is set up as a pawn in a counterfeiting ring (they were the ones who had sent him the letter), and unwittingly helps the police capture the criminals. Louise decides to remain in Brazil. (synopsis written by Mark Holcomb - mholcomb@europa.com - for IMDb).
17 September 1961 - daily OEPS's columnist praises 'Girl in room 13' saying that even though the plot line is not really original there are good quality elements in the movie like Andrea Bayard's and John Herbert's acting, Konstantin Tkaczenko's photography and Pierino Massenzi's scenography which showed S.Paulo in a better view than 20th Century Fox's Henry Levin who had filmed S.Paulo less than a year before for 'Holiday lovers'.
14 December 1961 - for some reason 'A moça do quarto 13' was released 3 months later in Rio de Janeiro; ad from 'Correio da Manhã'.
24 September 1961 - 'Two women' (La ciociara) gave Sophia Loren a best actress Academy Award.
Brian Donlevy plays detective Steve Mitchell in the series 'Dangerous Assignment' started as a radio show in 1949 and moved to TV from 1952 to 1954.
8 October 1961 - Praised by the hostile colonized media as 'good as' Dassin's 'Riffi' or Stanley Kubrick's 'The killing'... 'Mulheres e milhões' boasted the 2 biggest Brazilian stars: Norma Benguel and Odete Lara (reunited in 1964 in Khoury's 'Noite vazia') plus Jece Valadão that would dominate the male side of film actors...
19 October 1961 - Brazilian movie 'Mulheres e milhões' (Women and millions) featuring Norma Benguel, Luigi Picchi, Odete Lara, Jece Valadão and Luely Figueiró; deutsche Kino was present with Georg Marischka's 'Peter Voss, der Held des Tages' (Peter Voss, o heroi do dia) with O.W. Fischer and Linda Christian; 'Pepe' was Hollywood's way of paying tribute to Mexico's comedian Cantinflas.
15 October 1961 - It looks German but it is a 1957 Italian production originally called 'Sigfrido'. but aka 'The dragon's blood' - an Italian fantasy film co-written and directed by Giacomo Gentilomo, based on Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'. Sebastian Fischer plays Sigfrido, Katharina Mayber plays Brunilde, Italian actress Ilaria Occhini plays Crimilde, Rolf Tasna is Hagen und Giorgio Costantini is Gunther. According to the ad at OEPS the movie was shot in Brazil at the Odil Studios-Fonobrasil in São Paulo.
22nd October 1961 - Released in the USA on 20 December 1960, 'Pepe' is musical comedy in which Hollywood tried to replicate the success of Mexico's comedian Cantinflas' American debut 'Around the world in 80 days'. Even though it had more cameo appearences than the stars in the heavens 'Pepe' received generally unfavourable reviews from critics and failed to match the box-office success of its previous effort. Brazilian Angela Maria recorded the musical-theme in Portuguese and Caterina Valente did the same in Deutsche.
22nd October 1961 - Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' (Psicose) was another flick I'd die to be able to see...
29 October 1961 - John Wayne's 'The Alamo' whose opening-title-song 'The green leaves of summer' written by Paul Francis Webster, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four. In Brazil it was recorded in Portuguese as 'Folhas verdes de verão' by Wilma Bentivegna who took it to Number One in the charts.
17 December 1961 - Audie Murphy's first starring role 'Bay boy' (O malfeitor) was released in February 1949. Despite having been decorated WWII combat veteran in 1945, Murphy convincingly played a youthful teenager in the film. He was cast at the insistence of Texas theatre owners who helped finance the flick. Jane Wyatt, who would play Margaret Anderson in 'Father knows best' (Papai sabe tudo) from 1954 to 1960 plays Lloyd Nolan's wife.
Lloyd Nolan, Audie Murphy & Jane Wyatt.
17 December 1961 - Italian-French drama film directed & written by Francesco Maselli 'I Delfini' was dubbed in Portuguese at Odil-Fonobrasil but due to the poor wiring of cinemas in Brazil, people could not understand the dialogues well, so the new trend of dubbing foreign films was stopped in its track... 'Silver spoon set' as it was titled in English was shot in Ascoli Piceno, Italy and made Claudia Cardinale a star.
Annamaria Ferrero & Gerard Blain; Claudia Cardinalle &Tomas Milian
Tomas Milian does his best to inhale as much smoke as possible...
17 December 1961 - Just 2 weeks before the end of 1961, another Robert Youngson's compilation of some of the most successful comedies of the early American movies. The most popular acts in Brazil were Charlie Chaplin aka Carlitos; Oliver Hardy & Stan Laurel aka Gordo & Magro; Harry Langdon; Ben Turpin aka Caolho; Fatty Arbuckle aka Chico Boia; Charlie Chase; Snub Pollard plus the Keystone Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties.
Robert Youngson's previous compilations were: 1957's 'The golden age of comedy' (Os reis do riso) and 1960's 'When comedy was king' (Risos e mais risos). After 'Days of thrill and laughter' in 1961, he would finally compile '30 years of fun' in 1963.
24 December 1961 - This 'Mulheres cheguei!' must be Zé Trindade's last musical-comedy... By 1962, the genre was dead and gone substituted by the small screen of television sets around the country...
27 December 1961 - World famous Sergey Eisenstein's 'O couraçado Potemkin' is shown at Russian Cinema Festival at Rio de Janeiro's Museu de Arte Moderna.
29 October 1961 - Brazilian Foreign Minister San Thiago Dantas opened the Soviet Film Festival at Cine Coral, on Rua 7 de Abril.
5 November 1961 - It is ironic that 'O Estado de S.Paulo', the most conservative right-wing newspaper in Brazil would all of a sudden be the champion of the USSR cinema retrospective. The paper became an apologist of the Soviet cinema. It's one of those mysteries hard to explain...
12 November 1961 - Soviet cinema makes a big splash among intelectual cinema buffs in São Paulo.
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