Carmen Santos (8 June 1904 – 24 September 1952) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian

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and film producer. Santos began acting at the age of fifteen, and started producing films from 1930 onwards with '' Blood of Minas Gerais''. She founded her own film studio Brasil Vita Filmes in

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. Santos directed the 1948 film ''

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'', in which she also starred.Marsh p. 4

Selected filmography

* '' Blood of Minas Gerais'' (1930) * ''

'' (1948)

References

Bibliography

* Marsh, Leslie. ''Brazilian Women's Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy''. University of Illinois Press, 2012. * Shaw, Lisa & Dennison, Stephanie. ''Brazilian National Cinema''. Routledge, 2014.

External links

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