Biografias 4
Autor: Aluan | Publicado: 2011-11-22T18:17:00-03:00

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Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha was born on February 9, 1909 - Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and died on August 5, 1955, better known as Carmen Miranda, was a singer and Luso-brasileira .Sua artistic career spent in Brazil and United States between the 1930s and 1950s. He worked in radio, vaudeville theater, film and television. He came to receive the highest salary hitherto paid to a woman in the United States. His eclectic style makes it considered a precursor of Tropicalism, Brazilian cultural movement emerged in the late 60. Carmen Miranda was named after Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha.Era the second daughter of Joseph Barber Maria Cunha Pinto (1887-1938) and Maria Emilia Miranda (1886-1971). Carmen got the nickname in Brazil, thanks to the love that his father had with opera. At about two o'clock in the morning, after drinking and sing some songs for the friends present, Carmen went to her room to sleep. He lit a cigarette, put on a robe, removed the makeup and walked toward the bed with a small hand mirror. A collapse of massive heart dropped dead on the floor on August 5. His body was found by her mother the next day at 10:30 am. He was 46 years.

&nbsp;&nbsp; It is noteworthy for being the main responsible for the discovery of a language peculiarly Brazilian music, is considered the greatest exponent of the music of modernism in Brazil, composing works that highlight the spirit of nationalism which incorporates elements of folk songs, popular and indigenous. Son of Noemia Monteiro and Raul Villa-Lobos Villa-Lobos, was encouraged to study early because his mother wanted him to doctor. The first compositions of Villa-Lobos bear the mark of European styles of the turn of the century to the twentieth century, being mainly influenced by Wagner, Puccini, the high school French Romanticism Frank and soon after the Impressionists.


&nbsp;Chaplin was born in London in 1889 and began his career as a mime, doing tours to showcase their art. In 1913, during one of his trips around the world, this great actor met the filmmaker Mack Sennett, New York (United States), who hired him to star in his films. His most famous character Carlitos was the straggler, oppressed and funny, this character denounced social injustice. Smart and funny, this great artist knew how to laugh and also cry. In 1918 at the height of his success, he opened his own film company, and from there made his own screenplays and directed films. Outspoken critic of society, he never tired of denouncing the serious social problems such as poverty and unemployment. Produced great works as The Circus, Street Peace and City Lights. The film The Circus, Chaplin won his first Oscar in 1929 Honorary. In 1965, he published his autobiography, My Life. In 1972, Charles Chaplin was presided with the Honorary Oscar for best soundtrack for the film Limelight. In 1977, the world lost one of the major representatives of film history.

Known as comic duo Laurel and Hardy, his films are classics of silent film comedy. Oliver Hardy, Laurel - round face and jovial, with a thin mustache - and his sidekick, Stan Laurel, the Thin Man - clumsy, a long face and flashing eyes - were masters of the representation of the absurd. Disputes and persecutions, showing the chaotic side of everyday life. Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) hit the U.S. in 1910, where he worked in vaudeville with little success. Hardy began his collaboration with the film Putting Pants on Philip (1927). Laurel, who played the loser, was, in fact, the creative side of the duo, even in passive roles. Unlike other actors of silent film, Laurel and Hardy retained credibility in the transition to sound film, which gave rise to the short feature films, without the charm was lost. The pair ended during the Second World War, but was unsuccessful in trying to return. The comic won several Oscars and in 1960 received a statuette by the whole career.
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