Norma Benguell

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Norma Benguell (born Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães d'Áurea Bengell, 21 February 1935 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 9 October 2013 Rio de Janeiro at age 78) was a Brazilian film, stage and television actress, producer, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Considered one of the greatest muses of Brazilian cinema and theater in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Norma began her career in the early 1950s, being launched in the artistic environment through the revue theater by producer Carlos Machado. She shot 64 films during her career, several of them in Europe. She also appeared in episodes of T.H.E. Cat, TV Series (1966-1967) the first being in 1966 episode “To Kill a Priest”. Biography Bengell was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1935. She was the daughter of Christian Friedrich Bengel, a Belgian-born German piano tuner, and Maria da Glória Guimarães, a wealthy young Brazilian woman from the Zona Sul (South Zone) of Rio de Janeiro. Norma lived from childhood until the mid-1960s in an apartment on Nossa Senhora de Copacabana Avenue, Copacabana neighborhood in Rio. She began her studies at Marechal Trompowsky Municipal School. Around the age of 10, her parents separated. Due to her rebellious nature, her paternal grandmother enrolled her in the boarding school of German nuns Nossa Senhora de Piedade, from where she was later invited to withdraw due to acts of indiscipline. Career In the early 1950s, Norma began her career as a model and mannequin for Casa Canada

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Ooooooh! Norma

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Groovy Vol.4

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Ao Maestro com Carinho - Um Tributo a Tom Jobim

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Bis Bossa Nova - Um Banquinho E Um Violão

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groovy vol.4: collection of rare...

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Groovy - Vol 4

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Ooooooh! Norma(1959)

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Beginner's Guide To Bossa Nova - Disc One: Beginnings

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Chega De Saudade

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Bis Bossa Nova - Um Banquinho E Um Violão - Vol. 1

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Groovy, Vol. 4: A Collection of Rare Jazzy Club Tracks

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Bis Bossa Nova - Um Banquinho E Um Violão - Vol. 1

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