7 January 1962 - The ad on the left boasts Armando Bó's 'Favela' (Shanty-town) with Isabel Sarli is the best Brazilian co-production since Marcel Camus's 'Black Orpheus'. Miss Sarli, who had been Miss Argentina 1955, plays a Brazilian girl called Conceição who like a 1956 hit-song was a girl who used to live up in a shanty-town perched on a hill-side that decides to climb down and live it up in the city among the rich. Cauby Peixoto in his most popular song sums it up: 'Whether Conceição went up, well, nobody knows, nobody has ever seen but today Conceição wishes she had never climbed down from the slums'; the film may not be fantastic but it's pretty good especially with the Brazilian cast showing singer-song-writer-actor Monsueto in a good light; Black Ruth de Souza is very good, as usual and the music is fantastic; the highlight though is Isabel Sarli lying stark naked as an offer to Yemanjá... that may turn out to be a lesbian after all; at Cine Aurea 'Um homem de certa profissão' (Le gigolo) where Jean Claude Brialy plays a male prostitute and Alida Valli is just gorgeous.
Isabel Sarli as Miss Argentina 1955 in Long Beach, CA; right with Rory Calhoun in Hollywood.
25 September 1966 - Armando Bo's 'Favela' is back at Cine Boulevard four years later.
Jean Claude Brialy plays a hustler in 'Le gigolo'.
7 January 1962 - the dance craze the twist was getting hold on the world again... since it started in early 1960, died a little later and was re-born in the upper classes again in late 1961 and 1962. Chubby Checker straight from Philadelphia-PA was the King of Twist and starred in 'Twist around the clock' with Dion, The Marcels who were #1 all around the world with the 'revamping' of Rodgers & Hart 1934 hit 'Blue moon'; Mexican comedian Cantinflas is sure to draw big crowds to the theatres even if it's a repeat; here he plays with the Devil himself in 'Un dia con el diablo' (Um dia com o diabo-A day with the devil) done in 1945.
7 January 1962 - Cine Jussara on Rua Dom José de Barros, played only 'adult movies'. As pornography was banned in the country the movie-theatre manager could only enhance the sexy bits of the films he hired with heavy language like: Jayne Mansfield aka The Bust in 'The challenge' which was freely translated as 'A mulher que soube amar' (The woman who knew how to love); at Cine Lider one could see a Russian masterpiece called 'Quando voam as cegonhas' Летят журавли (The cranes are flying) with Tatiana Samoilova & Alexei Batalov which won the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1958.
14 January 1962 - Sex was the word... but a tame sex compared with today's no-holds-barred; at Cine Aurea a 1949 flick 'The devil's sleep' (Até do diabo dorme) where former Mrs. Charles Chaplin, Lita Grey Chaplin deals with smugglers of... sleeping pills... see how dangerous they were in 1949?; at Cine Regina, French bombshell Pascale Petit aka PP as a counter point to more famous BB played a alegedly lecherous nun in 'Lettere di una novizia'(A noviça proibida - 'A noviça rebelde' was on her way though in another 2 more years); Austrian bombshell Nadja Tiller who was Miss Austria 1949, played another temptress in a British drama directed by Robert Siodmak 'The rough and the smooth' or 'Portrait of a sinner' (Retrato de uma pecadora).
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Romy und Lili
28 January 1962 - At Cine Republica 'Judgement at Nuremberg' (Julgamento em Nuremberg) with an stelar cast including Maximilian Schell who won an Academy Award for best actor of 1961; at Cine Coral, 'Mädchen in Uniform' (Senhoritas de uniforme) a remake of a 1931 German movie where Romy Schneider has a chance of playing some not-so-sweet role of an orphan girl who is dumped in a very harsh & disciplinarian boarding school where she falls in love with Lilli Palmer's character the only supervisor to show her any kindness.
Romy Schneider, director Geza Radvanyi & Lili Palmer.
18 February 1962 - at Cine Ipiranga, Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds (1957) as the southern-country-girl Tammy in 'Tammy tell me true' (Com amor no coração) with heart-throb John Gavin who had his best phase around this time having appeared in 'Psycho', 'Spartacus' and 'Back street'.
25 February 1962 - bombastic French-Italian production 'La fille dans la vitrine' (Mulheres na vitrina / La ragazza in vetrina) had two Italian workers living in Holland fall in love in 2 hookers who advertise their bodies exposing themselves at shop-windows in Amsterdam. Marina Vlady & Magaly Noel play the prostitutes; at Cine Bandeirantes, Sidney Poitier in 'A raisin in the sun' (O sol tornará a brilhar) the drama of an American Black family that yearns for a better future.
25 February 1962 - Zé Trindade is back with 'Bom mesmo é carnaval', another musical comedy by Croat director J.B.Tanko with Nelly Martins, Renato Restier, Anilza Leoni, Jayme Costa etc.
young rock journalist Albert Pavão shows John Gavin his 'Rocks News' magazine.
Eva Wilma in a toast with John Gavin.
15 April 1962 - a special adaptation of producer Robert Youngson who had the rights on the film. This was the first time I actually saw a silent movie, even though it had an added sound-track. 'Noah's Ark' (A arca de Noé) was released in November 1928 on the cusp of the transition between silence and sound. I saw it at Cine Goiaz in Pinheiros and was really impressed by the whole thing. I fell immediately in love with Dolores Costello who plays 2 roles as there are 2 stories happening at the same time: Noah's times and World War I time. At the beginning the producer added a few scenes of 'Noah's Ark' premier in Hollywood with all the glitter that really impressed a teen-ager.
Daryl Zanuck was in charge of production at Warner Brothers and director Michael Curtiz used everything they knew about film-making when it came to mounting this production. It appears to have been conceived as an attempt to copy the success of Cecil B. DeMille's 1923's 'The Ten Commandments' that had used a long prologue to tell the story of Moses. 'Noah's Ark' shows that Zanuck & Curtiz had carefully studied DeMille's film and then attempted to out do it. Their film opens with a modern story and then travels back into time to show how the story of Noah and the flood correspond to modern life.
middle-aged Ruth Roman has got the hots for shirtless teen-idol Paul Anka.
Rio de Janeiro's Correio da Manhã - 22 May 1962
directed by Iosif Kheifitz based on a Anton Chekhov story 'Дама с собачкой' (A dama do cachorrinho / The lady with the dog) it was entered into the 1960 Cannes Festival; with Iya Savvina & Aleksey Batalov.
Iven Aleksendrovich Piriev's 'Белые ночи' (Noites brancas / White nights) 1959.
Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov's 'Мир входящему' (A paz seja contigo / Peace to him who enters) 1961 - is set in WWII and tells the story of 2 Soviet soldiers who try to rescue a trapped pregnant German woman by taking her on a dangerous drive to a hospital.
Mikhail Kalatozov's 'Неотправленное письмо' (A carta que não foi enviada / Letter never sent) 1959 starring Tatyana Samojlova, the same actress who was in Kalatozov's most lauded film, 'The cranes are flying'.
Nikolai Cherkasov (Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов) * 27 July 1903 + 14 September 1966.
3 June 1962 - 'El Cid' finally opens on Monday, 4 June 1962 at Cine Windsor, one of the best movie houses in town.
'Filmelândia' posts a sinopse of 'Quando setembro vier' in its December 1961 issue.
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Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass & Roman Polanski. They were married from 1959 to 1962.
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