Carmen - Uma Biografia

Carmen - Uma Biografia
Author Ruy Castro
Country Brazil
Language Portugues
Subject Carmen Miranda
Genre Biography
Publisher Companhia das Letras
Publication date
 December 2005
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 632
ISBN 978-85-3590-760-5

Carmen - Uma Biografia (English: Carmen - A Biography) is a biographical book about the life of singer and actress Carmen Miranda, written by Ruy Castro and released in December 2005 by the Companhia das Letras.

Summary

Year after year, the journalist Ruy Castro follows the lives of Carmen Miranda, "the most famous Brazilian 20th century," of his 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 his 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.

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.)[5][6][7]

The idea of the miniseries was director Carlos Manga, which invited the writer Maria Adelaide Amaral to take the script the plot.[8][9][10]

References

  1. ↑ BEATRIZ VELLOSO E MARTHA MENDONÇA. "Memória de uma estrela". Revista Época.
  2. ↑ "Carmen: Uma Biografia". Folha de São Paulo.
  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 São Paulo.
  5. ↑ "De volta à moda, Carmen Miranda ganha biografia e exposição". Terra Networks.
  6. ↑ Claudia Dias. "Globo e Paula Lavigne entram na justiça por Carmem Miranda". OFuxico.
  7. ↑ CRISTINA TARDÁGUILA. "Família de Carmen Miranda profissionaliza gestão da marca". O Globo.
  8. ↑ Carla Bittencourt e Leonardo Ferreira. "Família dificulta minissérie sobre Carmen Miranda na Globo". Extra.
  9. ↑ "Livro sobre Carmen Miranda vira minissérie na Globo". O Estado de S. Paulo.
  10. ↑ Celina Côrtes. "Tico-tico no fubá - Vida de Carmen Miranda vira motivo de disputa". ISTOÉ Independente.

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