1 9 6 4 - 'A moça que veio de longe' (May-July) / 'A outra face de Anita' (July-September)

São Paulo's TV Excelsior production of novela (tele-drama) 'The other face of Anita' (A outra face de Anita) ran from 28 July to 25 September 1964, Monday through Friday, at 7:00 pm at TV Excelsior. Written by Ivani Ribeiro based on an original by Mário Donato, directed by Dionísio de Azevedo.

'Anita' came just after Ivani Ribeiro's 'A moça que veio de longe' (The girl who came from afar), which kept the whole country bewitched from May to July 1964. 'Moça' made a star of Rosamaria Murtinho (Maria Aparecida, a hand-maid who falls in love with the family's heir) and Helio Souto (Raul, the gallant prince-charming fighting for the love of the servant-girl) and changed Brazilian TV watchers' habits forever. Novelas came of age and were raised to the top of TV's programmes. Drama was king!

Ivany Ribeiro's 'A moça que veio de longe' (52 instalmens) ran from 5 May to 29 July 1964, at 7:00 pm from Monday through Friday. Directed by Dionisio de Azevedo. 

Rosamaria & Hélio kept the whole country with baited breathe until the last chapter... 

'Intervalo' n.90, 27 September 1964. 

Ivany Ribeiro's 'A outra face de Anita' (51 instalments) ran from 28 July to 25 September 1964 from Mo.thru Fri. at 7:00 pm; directed by Dionisio de Azevedo. 

Francisco Cuoco, an actor

1960s heart throb Francisco Cuoco. 

'Intervalo' n.80, 19 July 1964.

Francisco Cuoco was born on 29 November 1933, in São Paulo. In 1954, when he was 21, tired of burning the midnight oil trying to make sense of Latin, Cuoco up and left the pre-university-admission course he had been taking to enter Law School and set his sights on entering the School of Dramatic Arts and become an actor instead.

In 1957, when he was 25, after 4 years of hard work, Francisco graduated from Dramatic School and entered the working force at Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia, playing roles in Arthur Miller's 'A view from the bridge' (O panorama visto da ponte) and Peter Ustinov's 'Romanoff and Juliet'. 

Cuoco moved to Rio and was often featured at tele-plays on 'Teatro dos 7'.

A recent shot of the house Francisco Cuoco grew up on Rua Major Marcelino, in Brás. According to someone at Facebook who lived near by, on Tuesday mornings Cuoco would help his father who worked at a street-market (feira) on Rua Firmino Pinto. 

Aldo de Mayo & Francisco Cuoco at Grande Teatro Tupi in Patrick Hamilton's 'O senhor acredita na lua?' 

20 October 1958 - The earliest entry of Francisco Cuoco's name at Grande Teatro Tupi TV drama in Clement Dave's 'Divorcio' adapted by Flávio Rangel with Leonardo Vilar, Carminha Brandão et.

13 April 1959 - Cuoco again at Grande Teatro Tupi, under the direction of Sergio Viotti in Jean Anouilh's 'Eurydice' with Rubens de Falco, Dina Lisboa.

5 October 1959 - Grande Teatro Tupi presents Alfred de Musset's 'Duas vidas' with Berta Zemmel, and Fábio Cardoso.

'Intervalo' n.90, 27 September 1964, with Francisco Cuoco on the cover.

11 February 1963 - Morvan Lebesque's 'Descoberta do novo mundo' directed by Sergio Brito for 'Teatro dos Sete' on TV Rio, channel 13.

18 February 1963 - Eugène Labiche's 1875 play, 'Les trente millions de gladiator' (30 milhões de gladiadores) at TV Rio, channel 13.

4 March 1963 - Grande Teatro Murray presents 'Três histórias estranhas' done by Teatro dos Sete for TV Rio, channel 13.

11 March 1963 - Monday- 'Grande Teatro Murray' with Teatro dos Sete at TV Rio, channel 13.

15 April 1963 - Teatro dos Sete presents Vera Caspary's 'Laura', an adaptation of Moisés Weltman.

20 April 1963 - TV Tupi's Teatro de Comédia presents 'Zazá', directed by Ilza Silveira.

27 April 1963 - TV Tupi's Teatro de Comédia brings 'Zazá' back a week later.

13 May 1963 - Francisco Cuoco is back at TV Rio and 'Grande Teatro Murray' with Mihura's 'Carlota' with Fernanda Montenegro.

18 May 1963 and 25 May 1963 - TV Tupi's Teatro de Comédia presents Glauce Rocha in 'A ladra' (The thief).

3rd June 1963 - Teatro dos Sete presents 'O armário', a 3-story adaptation of Marcelo Ramos Mota.

29 February 1964 - Playwright Nelson Rodrigues writes 'A morta sem espelho', a mini-novela for TV Rio: Fernanda Montenegro plays the 'Dead one' plus Zilca SAllaberry, Carminha Brandão, Italo Rossi, Francisco Cuoco, Aldo de Mayo, Fernando Tôrres.

Sérgio Brito, Fernanda Montenegro, Carminha Brandão & Francisco Cuoco in Stafford Dickens' 'Esta noite é nossa'. 

2nd March 1964 -  at TV Rio, Teatro dos Sete presents Domingos de Oliveira's 'Psicologia dos algemados' with Glauce Rocha, Napoleão Monis Freire and Francisco Cuoco.

20 July 1964 - Oduvaldo Vianna's 'Renúncia' starts at TV Rio with Francisco Cuoco and Irina Grecco. This is his first major work on TV.

1 9 6 3 - 'Boeing-Boeing' opens in Rio / it opens in São Paulo in 1964

Eva Wilma

9 June 1963 - 'Correio da Manhã' - Marc Camoletti's 'Boeing-Boeing' opens on Wednesday, 12 June 1963, at Teatro Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro. 

Theatre scene in Rio 'round June 1963: at Teatro Santa Rosa, Neil Simon's 'O bem amado' (Come blow your horn) with Iris Bruzzi, Claudio Cavalcanti, Marcia de Windsor; at Teatro de Bolso: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri's 'Eles não usam black-tie' with Paulo José, Ary Toledo, Milton Gonçalves; at Teatro do Rio: Jorge Andrade's 'A escada' with Mario Lago, Maria Pompeu; at Teatro Dulcina: Pedro Bloch's 'A roleta paulista' with Laura Suarez; at Teatro Jardel: 'A tia de Carlitos' with Agildo Ribeiro; at Teatro da Praça: Norman Krasna's 'Um domingo em Nova York' (Sunday in New York) with Adriano Reys; at Teatro Ginástico: 'Vamos contar mentiras' with Sergio Viotti, Brigitte Blair, Oscarito & Grande Otelo; at Teatro Mesbla: '3 em lua de mel' with Rodolfo Mayer; at Teatro Recreio: a Walter Pinto show: 'A panela tá fervendo'.

11 June 1963 - Bibi Ferreira sans Paulo Autran (Francisco Dantas was the substitute) & Jayme Costa in 'My fair lady' at Teatro Carlos Gomes; Colé & his wife Lilian Fernandes in 'Pelé & Peladas' at Teatro Rival. 

11 June 1963 - an overall view of what was showing in Rio in terms of movies and plays: Shirley MacLaine in 'My geisha', William Holden and Lili Palmer in 'The counterfeit traitor', James Stewart & Doris Day are back in Hitchcock's 'The man who knew too much'; Cary Grant in 1939's "Gunga Din'... 

12 June 1963 - 

7 July 1963 - 

Jardel Filho plays the shy man; Eva Wilma & John Herbert (as well as Carminha Brandão) would go on to play in São Paulo's staging of the piece in 1964. 

21st July 1963 - 

'Melodias' June 1964 - column 'Gente de Teatro' Elizabeth Hartmann, Nydia Lícia and Eva Wilma in 'Boeing, Boeing' staged at Teatro Bela Vista. 

'Melodias' July 1964 - São Paulo's theatre scene was exciting in the 1964: Tarcísio Meira & Miriam Mehler in 'Todo donzela tem um pai que é uma fera'...

1 9 5 8 - Maria Della Costa in 'L' Alouette' / Oscarito

6 June 1958 - U.S. journalist Mary Wynne's column 'Carrossel' or São Paulo 'Mary' go-round - at OESP lasted around 20 years. She wrote mainly about night-clubs and the night-life in a city that wasn't New York but never slept either. She wrote a Portuguese heavily laced with English words put between inverted comas. Here she writes about singers falling ill lateley: 'Infelizmente há uma epidemia de operações entre os nossos artistas. Estão se recuperando de operações de apendicite as cantoras Mary Gonçalves (A Baiuca) e Clea Soares (Oasis). Ouvi dizer que Johnny Alf também será operado'; at African Boite on Av. Brigadeiro Luiz Antonio, 1099, Conjunto Farroupilha sang every night.

At Teatro Cultura Artística's Pequeno Auditório, Dercy Gonçalves played 'Dona Violante Miranda' to packed houses; at the Great Auditorium in the same Cultura Artística, Milton Moraes headed a great cast including Yolanda Cardoso, in Michael Vincenzo Gazzo's 'Juventude sem dono' (A hatful of rain) directed by Danilo Bastos and his Teatro Moderno de Comédia; Nelson Rodrigues's 'Vestido de noiva' at Teatro Bela Vista with Nydia Licia, Carlos Zara, Wanda Kosmo e Ruth de Souza.

Maria Della Costa as Joan of Arc in Jean Anouilh's 'O canto da cotovia' ('L'Alouette' or 'The Lark'). 'L'Alouette' was first staged in France in 1952. In 1955, 'The Lark' was presented on Broadway in English, starring Julie Harris as Joan and Boris Karloff as Pierre Cauchon. Lillian Hellman made the English adaptation and Leonard Berstein composed the incidental music.

Maria Della Costa photographed near the wall that surrounds the stairs that lead to Rua dos Inglêses at Bela Vista during the time she performed Joan of Arc in 'L'Auloette'.

15 June 1958 - Oscarito's company presents 'Cupim' (Termite) with his wife Margot Louro supporting him and making sure he doesn't do any hanky panky with no one but herself...