Biografias 3
Autor: Aluan | Publicado: 2011-11-20T21:49:00-03:00

Carmen Miranda da Cunha was born in 1909 in Portugal. With 2 years of age, along with his family, came to live in Brazil. From childhood he showed great interest and talent for music and dance. The 20-year-old Carmen Miranda began his short and glorious career as a singer and actress. However, only recorded his first album at 30 years of age. At this time, the late 1930s, became a hit on radio stations Brazil. Devido of the great success, was brought to the United States, for an American businessman. At this stage of life, made a great success in representing their songs and dances, cultural aspects of tropical Brazil. He had a colorful clothes, hats with decorations and tropical fruits. His image represents a typical baiana. Not&nbsp; long after, Carmen Miranda went on the big screen in Hollywood. He acted in several films such as, for example, Tropical Serenade and One Night in Rio died of heart problems in 1955 and is buried in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He left as a legacy, his image is glad that, even today, rescued in the artistic and cultural Brazilian.


Villa Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro on the 5th of May 1887. He was conductor and composer, received a good musical direction as a child. In the year 1915 Villa-Lobos began his career as a musician, already had 19 years when he made his first compositions. In 1922 participated in the week of Art held in São Paulo, in 1923 Villa Lobos traveled to Europe and only returned to Brazil in 1929. Many orchestras were directed by him. Writing various compositions, organized choir of 12,000 voices in Sao Paulo in 1931 - the event was of great importance in South America, made several trips around the world enthusiastically driving their compositions as a composer, founded the folk in Brazil, was very encouraged Debussh Bach and Stravinsky, Villa Lobos traveled to Brazil several times doing his research and writing in his journal the many forms of Brazilian folk music, and then analyze and form their compositions. There are many pieces he composed: the ones that stood out were the cries of 16 in number, these cries were made in the period 1920 to 1929, there are over 1000 known compositions, besides those disappeared. During his lifetime he received 24 titles of the Institute of France, Member of the Academy of Fine Arts in New York and Commander of the Order of Merit of Brazil. His death occurred on 17 November 1959, his full name is: Heitor Villa Lobos.


Charles Spencer Chaplin, better known as Charlie Chaplin (born in London, April 16, 1889 - died December 25, 1977) was an actor, director, producer, comedian, dancer, writer and British musician. Chaplin was one of the most famous actors of the silent film era, distinguished themselves by the use of mime and slapstick comedy. Charlie Chaplin acted in, directed, wrote and produced his own films, being strongly influenced by a predecessor, the French comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His career in the entertainment lasted over 75 years since their first performances as a child in theaters in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era almost until his death at 88 years of age. His public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Together with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, Chaplin co-founded United Artists in 1919. For its unique contribution to the development of cinema, Chaplin is the most honored filmmaker of all time and is still decorated by the British life (Knight of the British Empire) and French (Légion d'Honneur) from Oxford University (Dr. Honoris Causa) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the United States (special Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1972).


In 1918 the production company Sun-Lite Pictures produced a silent film called "The Lucky Dog", broadcast in 1921, where two comics, an English actor and skinny and the other named Stan Laurel, on the contrary, an American actor known fat as Oliver Hardy, participated in this production, each playing a role. In 1926, they returned to meet again in a Hal Roach production called "45 Minutes from Hollywood", but like the first time, each one played his part in the movie alone. Some years later they were again called by the director and the supervisor Fred Guiol Leo McCarey, to form a comedy duo in the movie "The Second Hundred Years". Thus was born the famous comedy duo, Laurel &amp; Hardy, who became known in Brazil as Laurel and Hardy. Since then, the comedic duo went to work in Hal Roach productions. During the same period saw the birth of cinema sound in films and many films became sound, which led to the disappearance of many silent film actors, not adapt to this new technology. Luckily the team, Laurel &amp; Hardy managed an incredible adaptation to this new system, because the English accent of Laurel matched perfectly with the serene sound of Hardy, thus creating a new concept in these characters, giving a perfect harmony between humor and visual the dialogues. The first experience in this new film came at a short film called "Unaccustomed As We Are" in 1929. In the late forties, each tried to work in other films shown separately and both are good actors. Finally in 1951, double the largest of all time, performed his last film together in "Atoll, also known as" Utopia ". The film showed a more obese and Hardy Laurel visibly ill and the film turned out to be well received. After the dynamic film duo took some time off and from time to time, either attending a movie. His last television appearances was in the BBC program called "Grand Order of Water Rats." Oliver Hardy was on the morning of September 14, 1956 a stroke that left his body immobilized and died on August 7, 1957. Laurel did not attend his funeral and said that Hardy would understand. In the following years she returned to Laurel small roles in several films and also received an honorary Oscar for his contribution to cinema in 1963. Stan Laurel died of a heart attack on February 23, 1965.
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