Norma Benguell

Norma Benguell Born Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães D'Áurea Bengell 21 February 1935 Rio De Janeiro Brazil – 9 October 2013 Rio De Janeiro At Age 78 Was A Brazilian Film Stage And Television Actress Producer Singer-Songwriter Screenwriter And Director. Considered One Of The Greatest Muses Of Brazilian Cinema And Theater In The 1950s 1960s And 1970s Norma Began Her Career In The Early 1950s Being Launched In The Artistic Environment Through The Revue Theater By Producer Carlos Machado. She Shot 64 Films During Her Career Several Of Them In Europe. She Also Appeared In Episodes Of T.H.E. Cat TV Series 1966-1967 The First Being In 1966 Episode “To Kill A Priest”. Biography Bengell Was Born In Rio De Janeiro Brazil In 1935. She Was The Daughter Of Christian Friedrich Bengel A Belgian-Born German Piano Tuner And Maria Da Glória Guimarães A Wealthy Young Brazilian Woman From The Zona Sul South Zone Of Rio De Janeiro. Norma Lived From Childhood Until The Mid-1960s In An Apartment On Nossa Senhora De Copacabana Avenue Copacabana Neighborhood In Rio. She Began Her Studies At Marechal Trompowsky Municipal School. Around The Age Of 10 Her Parents Separated. Due To Her Rebellious Nature Her Paternal Grandmother Enrolled Her In The Boarding School Of German Nuns Nossa Senhora De Piedade From Where She Was Later Invited To Withdraw Due To Acts Of Indiscipline. Career In The Early 1950s Norma Began Her Career As A Model And Mannequin For Casa Canada And Casa Imperial. Her Beauty Drew Attention And In 1954 She Started To Act In The Revue Theater With The Show Fantasia E Fantasias By Caribé Da Rocha - Where She Developed Her Singing Career. Bengell Was Already The Main Star Of Carlos Machado's Shows And Had Already Established Herself As A Singer When She Made Her Film Debut By Starring In A Caricature Of Brigitte Bardot In The Film “O Homem Do Sputnik” 1959 By Director Carlos Manga. In The Same Year She Recorded Her First LP Called Ooooooh! Norm. During The 1960s Bengell Was Successful In The Music Scene Singing In Concerts By Antônio Carlos Jobim João Gilberto Vinicius De Moraes And Roberto Menescal As Well As Being One Of The First Singers To Record Jobim's Original Compositions. On Television She Appeared On A Weekly Show About MPB Directed By Abelardo Figueiredo On TV Tupi. She Also Participated In The Shows Carrossel And Noite De Gala On TV Rio. The Feature Film That Enshrined Bengell In Brazil Was “Os Cafajestes” 1962 By Director Ruy Guerra In Which She Starred In The First Frontal Nude Scene In Brazilian Cinema Which Made Her The Target Of Great Persecution By Conservative Sectors Suffering Attacks From The Church And The Organization Tradição Família E Produção TFP . Tradition Family And Production . In 1961 Bengell Debuted In Dramatic Theater With “Busca-Se Uma Rosa” In The Act Written By Gláucio Gil. In The Same Year She Was Invited By Anselmo Duarte To Play The Prostitute Marli In O “Pagador De Promessas” 1962 . By Participating In The Cannes Film Festival Which Awarded The Film She Achieved International Recognition. She Is Introduced To Dino De Laurentiis And Begins Her International Career Acting In “O Mafioso” 1962 By Alberto Lattuada. Between 1962 And 1970 She Acted In Thirteen Foreign Productions. In Italy Bengell Met Actor Gabriele Tinti Who Became Her Husband When They Got Married In A Scenic Church At The Vera Cruz Studios During The Filming Of Empty Night 1964 By Walter Hugo Khoury. In 1969 The Year In Which She Staged The Play Cordélia Brasil By Antônio Bivar In São Paulo Bengell Was Kidnapped At Teatro De Arena And Taken To Rio By Three Men From The 1st Police Battalion Of The Army. At DOI-CODI A Department Of The Military Dictatorship Known For Torturing Artists Writers And Political Enemies Of The Regime She Was Interrogated For Five Hours About "subversion In The Theater Class" And Detained For Two Days. It Would Be The First Of Several Arrests By The Military Regime Which Led To Her Exile In France In 1971. Four Decades Later She Was Recognized By The Brazilian Government As Politically Amnesty And Entitled To Compensation. In Avant-Garde Theater Bengell Mounted The Play Os Convalescentes 1970 Directed By Gilda Grillo. In France She Acted At The Théatre National Populaire. Still In The 1970s She Participated In Important Brazilian Films Such As Os Deuses E Os Mortos 1970 By Ruy Guerra A Casa Assassinada 1971 By Paulo César Saraceni Mar De Rosas 1977 By Ana Carolina And A Idade Da Terra 1980 By Glauber Rocha. Her Second LP “Norma Canta Mulheres” Came Out In 1977 With Compositions By Dona Ivone Lara Luli And Lucina Marlui Miranda Dolores Duran Chiquinha Gonzaga Rosinha De Valença Sueli Costa Rita Lee Joyce And Maysa In Addition To The Original Composition “Em Nome Do Amor” A Partnership Between Bengell And Glória Gadelha. The Following Year She Became Involved In The Fight For The Regulation Of The Acting Profession In Brazil. In The 1980s Bengell Participated In Soap Operas On TV Bandeirantes And Rede Globo. In 1983 She Returned To France And Acted In The Play Les Paravents By Patrice Chéreau. With The Creation Of N.B. Productions Bengell Launched Herself Into Cinematographic Production And Direction Directing The Short Films Maria Gladys A Brazilian Actress 1980 Barco De Iansã 1980 And Maria Da Penha 1980 . In 1988 She Debuted As A Feature Film Director With The Film Eternamente Pagu 1988 About The Life Of Political Activist Patrícia Galvão. She Also Produced And Directed O Guarani 1996 An Adaptation Of José De Alencar's Literary Classic. Unlike Her Previous Feature Film The Film Was Heavily Criticized And Did Not Obtain Significant Box Office In Addition To Causing Financial Issues. Her Next Cinematographic Productions Were The Short Films O Rio By Machado De Assis Mulheres No Cinema Brasileiro 2000 Maria Lenk 2004 And Trilogia Das Pianistas 2005 . In Theater She Participated In The Plays O Relato Ín Great Madame Shakespeare 2007 Gown 2007 And Happy Days 2010 . At Rede Globo She Was Part Of The Cast Of The Humorous Program Toma Lá Dá Cá Between 2008 And 2009. Personal Life Bengell's First And Only Marriage Was To Italian Actor Gabriele Tinti. They Met In 1963 And In 1964 They Decided To Live Together. The Union Lasted Until 1969 As The Artist Did Not Want To Subject Herself To A Conservative Marriage. After Their Separation Bengell Moved Out To Live By Herself. She Declared Herself A Feminist Starting To Fight In Demonstrations And Unions For Women's Rights Defending Women's Rights To Work Get Divorced Have An Abortion If So Desired And The Right To Use The Pill And Condoms Breaking With The Society Of Her Time. She Was Also Viewed As A Political Figure Taking Part In Demonstrations Against The Brazilian Military Dictatorship In 1968 Along Other Artists. Death Bengell Died On October 9 2013 From Lung Cancer A Diagnosis She Had Received Six Months Earlier. She Was Hospitalized At Hospital Rio Laranjeiras Due To Worsening Shortness Of Breath. Her Body Was Laid To Rest On The Same Day At São João Batista Cemetery And Cremated On October 10 At Caju Cemetery. The Artist Had Been Living Alone In Her Apartment In Copacabana For A Long Time And In Recent Years She Was Being Cared For By An Elderly Caregiver As She Had Back Problems And Used A Wheelchair. Films
Link Https //pt.M.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Norma_Bengell - “Filmografia” Discography 195? A Lua De Mel Na Lua - E Se Tens Coração - Capitol/Odeon 78 195? Hô-Bá-Lá-Lá - 7” Vinyl EP
1959” Ooooooh! Norma Odeon EP 1959 Ooooooh! Norma - Capitol/Odeon LP 1962 Ianni Ferrio E La Sua Orchestra João Gilberto Norma Bengell – Copacabana Palace 7" 45 RPM EP Alvorada EP 1963 Tristeza Derby 7” EP 1965 Meia Noite Em Copacabana Elenco LP 1967 Canto De Ossanha / Água De Beber Elenco EP 1977 Norma Canta Mulheres - Phonogram LP 1999 Groovy Vol. 4 A Collection Of Rare Jazzy Club Tracks - Track B3 “Fever” Sony Music CD - Per Discogs Norma Was Featured As A Singer In 51 Additional Albums Https //www.Discogs.Com/artist/3926076-Norma-Bengell Sources B/ Https //www.Discogs.Com/artist/3926076-Norma-Bengell
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