1 9 5 7 (1st) / 'Metido a bacana' / Yvonne de Carlo / 'Garotas e samba' / 'The girl can't help it' /

 

6 January 1957 - Five years after the success of 'O Cangaceiro', Milton Ribeiro still rode on that wave...in 'A lei do sertão'., directed by Antoninho Hossri; photography: Ferenc Feket.

20 February 1957 - coming up 'Samba na Vila' with comedian Simplicio, at Cines Republica and Marabá on the 20th. Songs and multiples singes like Angela Maria, João Dias, Trio de Ouro, Gilda de Barros etc.

24 February 1957 - Herbert Richers' 'Metido a bacana' starring comedian Ankito who seemed to have won the public's favours after he substituted older comedian Oscarito in the duo with Grande Otelo. Angela Maria 'Rainha da cor', Cauby Peixoto ('Ela foi fundada'), Dora Lopes who rarely appeared in the movies sings 'Maria Navalha', plus Carlos Galhardo, Dircinha & Linda Baptista, Jorge Veiga and Nelson Gonçalves. 

24 February 1957 - at Cine Rio on Rua da Consolação and Cine Jardim, on Rua Fradique Coutinho in Pinheiros, 'Rock, rock, rock' with Tuesday Weld as a 13-year old who can't persuade her dad to buy her a strapless gown and has to get money herself in time for the prom. Performances introduced by New York's WINS D.J. Alan Freed, Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, Teddy Randazzo, Connie Francis, the Moonglows, the Flamingos and the Teenagers with Frankie Lymon as a lead-singer. 

24 February 1957 - Universal studio's 'The desert hawk' (O gavião do deserto) with Yvonne de Carlo (real name Margaret Yvonne Middleton, born in Vancouver, Canada) the Queen of Technicolor adventure movies.

3rd March 1957 -  Carlos Manga's 'Garotas e samba' had all the ingridients for a successful Brazilian musical comedy: comedian Zé Trindade's sexual innuendos, show-girl Sonia Mamede's zany behaviour, ugly-duckling Zezé Macedo's platitudes and a lot of singers and songs to fill out the flimsy plot. See the staggering number of movie houses showing the flick and you'll see that it was a big hit no matter how disparaging columnist wrote about it. 

12 May 1957 - 20th Century-Fox presents curvaceous (curvilínea) Jayne Mansfield to the world in 'The girl can't help it' ('Sabes o que quero') that would figure in rock-movie history. See the line-up: Julie London, Ray Anthony, Fats Domino, the sensational Platters, Little Richard & his band, Nino Tempo, Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps etc.

1 9 5 7 (2nd) 'Trapeze' / 'Marcelino' / 'A doutora é muito viva' / 'Zwei blaue Augen'

 

7 July 1957 - Eurides Ramos' 'O barbeiro que se vira' an obvious pun on 'O barbeiro de Sevilha' (The barber of Seville) does excellent business for the 2nd week straight. TV clown Arrelia teams up with Eliana Macedo, Brazil's answer to Mary Pickford, plus a young Paulo Goulart & others. 

7 July 1957 - The ad says: The most beautiful woman in the world (Lollobrigida) in the most sensational show on earth. Brazilians fell in love with 'Trapeze' (Trapezio). It's one of those movies that were constantly being re-released up to the mid-1960s. 

21st July 1957 - angelic Pier Angeli becomes a downright slut in 'Pecadoras de Porto Africa' (Port Afrique) while Gianna Maria Canale plays 'Teodora, Imperatriz de Bizâncio' (Theodora, Slave Empress).

Theodora accepts caresses from slave women... 

28 July 1957 - Alberto Ruschel, Luigi Picchi, Fada Santoro, Francisco Negrão & Rubens de Falco star in 'O Capaganga', directed by Alberto Severi, on Cine Art Palácio, Bandeirantes etc.

Alberto Ruschel, Luigi Picchi & Fada Santoro.

18 August 1957 - a western tailor-made for Yvonne De Carlo & Rory Calhaoun 'Raw edge' (Onda de paixões) looks really 'raw' by its stills...

Miss DeCarlo & Rory Calhoun collect pines in the wild; Calhoun & DeCarlo have a laugh after shooting. 

Yvonne De Carlo being passionate with Calhoun; DeCarlo being rough-handed by Tex Kirby.

23rd September 1957 - Helio Souto plays 'Dioguinho', a dangerous outlaw who lived in the state of São Paulo. Based on a book by João Amoroso Netto.

9 October 1957 - even Mexicans made films about rock'n'roll and juvenile delinquents to export to other Latin American countries. 1956's 'Caras novas' (Caras nuevas) was just another vehicle for Sergio Corona & Alfonso Arau (Corona y Arau) Mexico's answer to USA's Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin.  

10 November 1957 - Ladislao Vajda's 'Marcelino pan y vino' was in its 8th smashing week having premiered on 15th September 1957 at Cine Normandie on Avenida Rio Branco. 

10 November 1957 - England's answer to USA's Jayne Mansfield, France's Brigitte Bardot and Italy's Sophia Loren was Diana Dors (sexo & talento)... in 'A vergonha de ser profana' which translates as 'The shame of being profane, sacriligeous, desrespectful...).

10 November 1957 - Italo-American Annamaria Pier Angeli was at her peak in 'Somebody up there likes me' (Marcado pela sarjeta) with Paul Newman. The ad was paid by Perfumaria do Farto - Farto Perfumary - no, please Farto is only a proper name in Portuguese... nothing to do with fart in English. Looking at the Farto ad one would have the impression that Pier Angeli would be at the perfume-shop in person but this is not true. Pier Angeli visited Brazil but not at this particular time. 

20 November 1957 - top box-office Brazilian actress Eliana in Ferenc Fekete's 'A doutora é muito viva'. Eliana was director Watson Macedo's own niece who starred in most of his flicks. This time though Eliana Macedo moved to Sao Paulo to make this a very Paulista movie. She plays the part of a lawyer (doutora, as Brazilians call their lawyers 'doctors') who is really clever and not to be taken advantage of. Watch the casting for Rachel Martins, lovely Luely Figueiró, Italian comedian Otelo Zeloni and Francisco Negrão as Eliana's romantic counterpart.

7 February 1958 - 'A Tribuna de Santos' - 'A doutora é muito viva' continues its success in Santos-SP.

4 December 1957 - comedian Colé stars in 'Um pirata do outro mundo' (A pirate from another world); musical numbers with Portuguese crooner Esther de Abreu, Rogeria, Conjunto Farroupilha, Trio de Ouro & Raul de Barros.

11 December 1957 - yet another flick starring Carequinha & Fred, a duo of clowns and their zany antics. See stunning Adalgisa Colombo who went on to become Miss Brazil 1958 and then runner up to Miss Universe 1958. Angela Maria and Cauby Peixoto were indeed the most popular singers in the country.

11 December 1957 - Cine Boulevard , on Rua Antonio de Godoy, 83, opens its brand-new doors to the public. 

11 December 1957 - Ads from companies & factories that furnished the newest cinema in town: Cine Boulevard. 

11 December 1957 - a brand-new movie house; Cine Boulevard - Cinema de Elite - opens for those patrons who appreciate a good European movie with Italian 'Donatella'; Cine Boulevard was actually refurbished from old Cine Paratodos that had shut its doors in December 1956.

15 December 1957 - circus clowns Carequinha & Fred star in 'Com água na boca' with Adalgiza Colombo, future Miss Brazil 1958, in a supporting role. Musical numbers written by Jair Amorim, Lourival Faissal, Dunga, Patame and Assis Valente, who would kill himself with a massive dose of poison diluted in soft-drink on 6 March 1958. 

29 December 1957 - São Paulo was a cultural melting pot circa 1957: German tear-jerker 'Zwei blaue Augen' (Dois olhos azuis) with Marianne Koch would draw crowds to Cine Bandeirantes for the 3rd week; Argentine tango singer Hugo del Carril's 'Más allá del olvido' (Além do esquecimento) was at Cine Marabá; British Alec Guiness went to France and fell in love with Odile Versois in 'To Paris with love' (Nossa querida Paris) while Austria's 1956's 'Konprinz Rudolfs lezte Liebe' (Os amantes de Mayerling) with Rudolf Prack & Christiane Hörbiger at Cine Boulevard. Cine Olido had been just inaugurated on 13 December 1957, with blockbuster 'An affair to remember' (Tarde demais para esquecer) with Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr.

Impresario Walter Pinto who thought of himself as the Brazilian counterpart of Flo Ziegfeld called his yearly extravaganza 'Folias de 1957'; 'É de xupurito' written by himself, Luis Iglesias, Max Nunes & J.Maia with a millionaire cast Walter D'Avila, Nelia Paula, Zeloni, Lilian Fernandes, Paulo Celestino, with Vicente Paiva's musical direction.

29 December 1957 - Comedienne Dercy Gonçalves was popular either in person or in the silver screen with 'Uma certa Lucrecia' which opened at an staggering 27 cinemas around the city. Lucrecia Borggia was a popular character in Brazilians' subconscious minds. Lucrecia and her wanton father peopled common people's sexual fantasies and Miss Gonçalves knew how to make that become a lot of dough in the box offices. Beautiful Odete Lara heads a mighty cast with bad-man Aurelio Teixeira, theatre virtuoso Eugenio Kusnet & Walter Stuart.

29 December 1957 - after being inaugurated on 11 December 1957, 'Kronprinz Rudolfs lezte Liebe' (Os amantes de Mayerling) is only the second film exhibited by the new projectors of Cine Boulevard on Rua Antonio de Godoy. 

'Donatella' with Elsa Martinelli & Walter Chiari at Cine Boulevard; 'The Halliday Brand' (Odio contra odio) with Viveca Lindfors & Joseph Cotten at Cine Opera.

'Zwei blaue Augen' (Dois olhos azuis) at Cine Bandeirantes; 'Tammy & the bachelor' (A flor do pântano) with Debbie Reynolds & Leslie Nielsen at Cine Ipiranga.

1 9 4 9 'Pinguinho de Gente'. 'Também somos irmãos'

 

18 June 1950 - 'A Tribuna' de Santos - 'Pinguinho de Gente' (Little child) released on 2nd October 1949, written and directed by Gilda de Abreu, with Anselmo Duarte, Vera Nunes, Isabel de Barros, Lucia Delor, Violeta Ferraz, Zaquia Jorger etc. Nini (Isabel de Barros) dreams of a doll that resembles a queen living in a toy store window. She knows she will never be able to own it, as her mother (Vera Nunes) hardly makes ends meet. 

2nd October 1949 - Gilda de Abreu's 'Um Pinguinho de Gente' produced by Adhemar Gonzaga premiere in Rio de Janeiro in 1949. 

10 July 1949 - 'A Tribuna de Santos' - 'Quase no céu', directed by playwright Oduvaldo Viana, starring Lia de Aguiar, Paulo de Alencar, Walter Avancini, Heitor de Andrade, Dionisio de Azevedo, Vida Alves, Homero Silva & Maria Vidal. Shot a Estúdios Tupy which was owned by Emissoras Associadas which would start TV Tupy in 1950. 

5 March 1950 - José Carlos Burle's 'Também somos irmãos' with Grande Otelo, Vera Nunes, Ruth de Souza, Aguinaldo Camargo, Jorge Doria, Agnaldo Rayol, Átila Iório, Jece Valadão. Released in 1949.