Carmen - Uma Biografia

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Carmen - Uma Biografia
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Author Ruy Castro
Language Portugues
Subject Carmen Miranda
Genre Biography
Publisher Companhia das Letras
Publication date
December 2005
Publication placeBrazil
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages632
ISBN 978-85-3590-760-5

Carmen - Uma Biografia (English: Carmen - A Biography) is a 2005 biographical book written by Ruy Castro. Published in 2005 by Companhia das Letras, the book treats on the main events Carmen Miranda's life, from her rise as a radio singer in the 1930s in Brazil, through the acme period of her career as a Hollywood actress and singer of Broadway to the process of decline and death.

Contents

Summary

Year after year, the journalist Ruy Castro follows the lives of Carmen Miranda, "the most famous Brazilian 20th century," of her birth in a village in Portugal and the arrival in Rio de Janeiro in 1909, with ten months old, and yours recognition Brazilian and international. [1] The work recounts the meteoric rise of Carmen, comes to her problems with stimulants, sleeping pills, alcohol, and deals with the intimacy of sexual relations of the star. A revealing book, which shows that behind the joy of artist, there were a real woman. [2]

Carmen is the largest biography of an artist ever published in Brazil. [3] The journalist writes in the book that the superficial idea of the stereotype perpetuated by Carmen Miranda would have been an imposition of Hollywood. The films featuring the singer are usually associated with "the Good Neighbor Policy" cultural outreach strategy (for commercial purposes) US with Latin America devised by Nelson Rockefeller and supported by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. According to Castro, "they may even have contributed to the plan, but did not start because of it." [4]

Development

Ruy Castro spent about five years researching the life of the artist, using as source the intersection of dozens of interviews with research in newspapers and personal files.

Awards

2006 — 48º Prêmio Jabuti

Version for television

The rights to the biography were later sold to Rede Globo, which idealized make a miniseries about Carmen Miranda, the Globo however bumped into several demands made by the family of the singer. Furthermore, issues in the Brazilian courts have delayed the project (producer Paula Lavigne bought in 1998 Carmen's image rights for $200,000, to make a movie about her life.) [6] [7] [8] The idea of the miniseries was director Carlos Manga, which invited the writer Maria Adelaide Amaral to take the script the plot. [9] [10] [11]

On 27 December 2015, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper announced that in 2016 the network has plans to resume negotiations with Carmen Miranda's family to get permission to bring his story to TV. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ BEATRIZ VELLOSO E MARTHA MENDONÇA. "Memória de uma estrela". Revista Época .
  2. ↑ "Carmen: Uma Biografia". Folha de S.Paulo. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25.
  3. ↑ "CARMEN: UMA BIOGRAFIA - A vida de Carmen Miranda, a brasileira mais famosa do século XX". Companhia das Letras.
  4. ↑ LUIZ FERNANDO VIANNA. "Livro derruba mitos sobre Carmen Miranda". Folha de S.Paulo.
  5. ↑ Saem os vencedores do prêmio Jabuti; confira lista
  6. ↑ "De volta à moda, Carmen Miranda ganha biografia e exposição". Terra Networks.
  7. ↑ Claudia Dias (22 September 2006). "Globo e Paula Lavigne entram na justiça por Carmem Miranda". OFuxico.
  8. ↑ CRISTINA TARDÁGUILA. "Família de Carmen Miranda profissionaliza gestão da marca". O Globo.
  9. ↑ Carla Bittencourt e Leonardo Ferreira (8 July 2010). "Família dificulta minissérie sobre Carmen Miranda na Globo". Extra.
  10. ↑ "Livro sobre Carmen Miranda vira minissérie na Globo". O Estado de S. Paulo.
  11. ↑ Celina Côrtes (20 September 2006). "Tico-tico no fubá - Vida de Carmen Miranda vira motivo de disputa". ISTOÉ Independente.
  12. ↑ Personalidades como Elis Regina e Vinicius podem ganhar minisséries na Globo
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