Short Biographies (Biografias Curtas ) .
Autor: The best friends' *--* | Publicado: 2011-11-09T11:28:00-08:00

Carmem Miranda
Portuguese&nbsp;by birth,&nbsp;Carmen&nbsp;Miranda&nbsp;was created&nbsp;in Lapa&nbsp;Rio, who&nbsp;in the 1910s&nbsp;and 1920s&nbsp;was&nbsp;a&nbsp;melting pot&nbsp;of artists,&nbsp;grifters&nbsp;and people&nbsp;of all kinds.&nbsp;Assimilating&nbsp;aesthetics,language and the&nbsp;new sounds&nbsp;of the place and&nbsp;time,&nbsp;learned the&nbsp;slang and&nbsp;the wheelsbohemian,&nbsp;her favorites,&nbsp;and created&nbsp;a&nbsp;character that&nbsp;would be&nbsp;a&nbsp;representation of&nbsp;&nbsp;Century&nbsp;20.Carmen&nbsp;was the&nbsp;first&nbsp;multimedia artist&nbsp;from Brazil.&nbsp;Talented,&nbsp;not only&nbsp;sang,&nbsp;danced&nbsp;and acted, but I knew&nbsp;intuitively&nbsp;move&nbsp;with ease&nbsp;through&nbsp;what would&nbsp;become the&nbsp;cultural industry.




Heitor Vila-Lobos .





&nbsp;Heitor&nbsp;Villa-Lobos&nbsp;was born&nbsp;March 5, 1887,&nbsp;in Rio de Janeiro.&nbsp;Son of&nbsp;Noemia&nbsp;Villa-Lobosand Raul&nbsp;Villa-Lobos, an official&nbsp;of the National Library&nbsp;and amateur musician.&nbsp;He received his&nbsp;first&nbsp;musical education&nbsp;at age six,&nbsp;coming from the father,&nbsp;who adapted&nbsp;a guitar&nbsp;that his son&nbsp;could study&nbsp;cello.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His&nbsp;musical education&nbsp;was very&nbsp;influences one&nbsp;Saturday night&nbsp;by&nbsp;the house&nbsp;ofVilla-Lobos&nbsp;receiving&nbsp;greats&nbsp;of the time&nbsp;to sing and play&nbsp;until dawn.&nbsp;Fifinha&nbsp;his auntintroduced him to&nbsp;the Preludes&nbsp;and Fugues&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Well-Tempered Clavier&nbsp;J.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;Bach, a composer&nbsp;who became his&nbsp;inspiration for&nbsp;the creation&nbsp;of&nbsp;nine&nbsp;Bachianas&nbsp;Brasileiras.




Charles Chaplin




Chaplin&nbsp;was born in London&nbsp;in 1889&nbsp;and began his&nbsp;career as a&nbsp;mime,&nbsp;doing&nbsp;tours&nbsp;to showcase their&nbsp;art.&nbsp;In 1913,&nbsp;during one of his&nbsp;trips around the world, this&nbsp;great actor&nbsp;met the&nbsp;filmmaker&nbsp;Mack&nbsp;Sennett, New&nbsp;York&nbsp;(United States), who hired him&nbsp;to star in&nbsp;his films.

Life and&nbsp;works

His&nbsp;most famous character&nbsp;Carlitos&nbsp;was&nbsp;the straggler, oppressed&nbsp;and funny, this characterdenounced&nbsp;social injustice.&nbsp;Smart and&nbsp;funny,&nbsp;this great&nbsp;artist knew&nbsp;how to laugh&nbsp;and alsocry.

In 1918&nbsp;at the height of&nbsp;his success, he&nbsp;opened his own&nbsp;film company, and&nbsp;from theremade ​​his own&nbsp;screenplays&nbsp;and directed&nbsp;films.&nbsp;Outspoken critic&nbsp;of society, he&nbsp;never tired&nbsp;of denouncing&nbsp;the serious social problems&nbsp;such as&nbsp;poverty&nbsp;and unemployment.&nbsp;Producedgreat works&nbsp;as&nbsp;The Circus, Street&nbsp;Peace and&nbsp;City Lights.&nbsp;The film&nbsp;The Circus, Chaplinwon&nbsp;his first&nbsp;Oscar&nbsp;in 1929&nbsp;Honorary.




Stan Laurel and Oliverd Hardy


From 1926&nbsp;to 1950,&nbsp;the American&nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Hardy&nbsp;and&nbsp;Stan&nbsp;Laurel&nbsp;British&nbsp;formed the&nbsp;most famous&nbsp;movie&nbsp;comedy&nbsp;duo:&nbsp;Laurel and Hardy.&nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Norvell&nbsp;Hardy&nbsp;Jr.,&nbsp;age 8,&nbsp;was alreadya professional singer.&nbsp;Son&nbsp;of a lawyer,&nbsp;came&nbsp;to enroll at the&nbsp;University of Georgia&nbsp;to followhis father's footsteps,&nbsp;but abandoned&nbsp;the idea and&nbsp;chose to&nbsp;open a&nbsp;small movie theaterwhen I was 18&nbsp;years.Three&nbsp;years&nbsp;later,&nbsp;got a job&nbsp;in the film industry, playing&nbsp;villains in&nbsp;small&nbsp;comedy&nbsp;short film, up to&nbsp;direct and write&nbsp;some of them.In 1921,&nbsp;opposite&nbsp;the first time with&nbsp;Stan&nbsp;Laurel&nbsp;in "Lucky&nbsp;Dog",&nbsp;but nobody&nbsp;noticed thepossibility of forming&nbsp;a&nbsp;pair of&nbsp;great success and&nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;continued to do&nbsp;smaller roles.&nbsp;Theonly&nbsp;two&nbsp;work together&nbsp;again&nbsp;five years&nbsp;later.