Carmen Santos

Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and film producer

Carmen Santos
Santos in Sangue Mineiro
Born	(1904-06-08)8 June 1904 Vila Flor, Portugal
Died	24 September 1952(1952-09-24) (aged 48) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Other names	Maria do Carmo Santos Gonçalves
Occupation(s)	Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actress
Years active	1919–1952 (film)

Carmen Santos (8 June 1904 – 24 September 1952) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian actress 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 Rio de Janeiro. Santos directed the 1948 film Minas Conspiracy, in which she also starred.^[1]

Selected filmography

Blood of Minas Gerais (1930)
Minas Conspiracy (1948)

References

^ Marsh p. 4

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.