Dolores Gonçalves Costa, better known as Dercy Gonçalves (Santa Maria Madalena, June 23, 1907 – Rio de Janeiro, July 19, 2008), was a comedian, actress, author, theater director, theater producer and Brazilian singer.
Coming from circus shows, she became one of the biggest stars at the height of revue theater in the 1930s and Brazilian film production from the 1940s onwards.
She was recognized by the Guinness Book as the actress with the longest career in world history, totaling 86 years.
Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant.
Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Januário is a con man who, with the help of his equally con-artist friends, stays at the luxurious Hotel Palácio, posing as a rich cocoa farmer in order to rob and deceive tourists. Ananásia is a widow who also becomes a guest at the same hotel, with almost the same plan: to pretend to be a millionaire in order to marry some wealthy "old man". Januário and Ananásia immediately begin dating. However, their lies about their wealth make them targets of international jewel thieves who were among the guests.
Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, and misunderstandings abound.
The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.