1 9 6 2 March - Joshua Logan's 'Fanny' / Otto Preminger's 'Exodus'

I must have been a very impressionable young man when I was 13 years old. I never forget the day I watched 'Fanny' with Leslie Caron & Horst Buchholz. I felt deep in my heart Fanny's tragedy of losing Marius to stay with the old man. I watched 'Fanny' with my younger brother at a tiny Cine Juventude Catolica in Marilia-SP. It was my first visit to my Marilia since we had left it in December 1960.

Horst Buchholz & Leslie Caron. 

26 March 1963 - 'Fanny' premiered at Cine Astor & Ipiranga. I must have seen it in July 1962, during the winter school recess when I traveled to Marilia-SP.

Horst Werner Buchholz, born on 4 December 1933, in Berlin, Germany; Leslie Clare Margaret Caron, born on 1st July 1931, in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris.

Miss Caron, director Joshua Lockwood Logan III, born on 5 October 1908, in Texarkana, Texas & Horst Buchholz in Marseille, France in 1961.

4 March 1962 - Otto Preminger's 'Exodus' opens at Cine Normandie, on Saturday, 10 March 1962. 

10 March 1962 - A brand new cinema house - Cine Barão - opens at Galeria California on trendy Rua Barão de Itapetininga, in São Paulo on Friday, 10 March 1962. 

4 March 1962 - Comic Zé Trindade was still really popular among Brazilians even though his days were numbered due to the constant expansion of TV sets in Brazilian homes. 'Bom mesmo é carnaval' (Carnaval is what it counts) dealt with the Brazilian notion that everything is allowed (especially sexual freedom) during the 3 or 4 days of Carnaval. Anilza Leoni embodied the proverbial voluptuous woman while Nelly Martins played the irreproachable young lady perfect for marriage. Jayme Costa is the ever friendly older uncle and Renato Restier who usually plays a mobster or racketeer this time is a bar owner. Musical numbers were an important part of a typical Brazilian musical comedy: Virginia Lane, a 1950s show-girl, Francisco Carlos whose popularity was on the wane, Joel de Almeida, a 1930s act who re-invented himself and was a Carnaval MC-cum-singer, Jackson do Pandeiro, who'd been around for at least a decade but was still going strong and José Messias, a Brazilian Dick Clark counterpart who was a DJ, songwriter and sometimes a singer to boot.

This is how real people looked like in Carnaval 1962 in Paramirim-BA, the state Zé Trindade came from. 

1st April 1962 - Samuel Bronston's 'King of kings' opened on 5 May 1962, at Cine Metro, on Avenida São João.