The funeral of actress Maria Eugenia, known as “Radio Girl”, who died on Thursday aged 89, will be held on Sunday in Lisbon, said the family source Lusa agency.
the wake will be held from 18h Saturday in the Basilica da Estrela, and the funeral will be held on Sunday from 14.00 to the cemetery of Prazeres, where it will be buried in the Artists Field.
the actress Maria Eugenia, 89, died on Thursday in Lisbon 89 years.
He debuted as an actress in the film “radio girl” (1944), of Arthur Duarte, in which he played the role of “Geninha girl” and where opposite, among others, Maria Matos, Antonio Silva, Curado Ribeiro and Maria Olguim.
the success of the new “movie star” as noted you press at the time, led her to return to the cinema, by the hand of the same director, to participate in “the lion Star” (1947).
the President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, today sent condolences to the family of the actress, highlighting the career “short but impressive” Maria Eugenia.
the Minister of Culture, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, mourned the death of the actress, describing it as “an unforgettable woman” who “was already part of the collective memory as the eternal ‘Girl Radio’.”
the Cinema Portuguese Academy also lamented the death of Maria Eugenia, stating that sufficed seven films to have an “unforgettable place in the history of Portuguese cinema”.
the photogenic and “naturalness performance” Maria Eugenia, wrote newspaper the Age, warned the Spanish film industries and Italy to actress.
in Spain, participated in films like “the guest room No. 13,” a Portuguese-Spanish co-production, and even “Los héroes del 95″ (1947), Raúl Alfonso ” cuándo los ángeles duermen “and” unexpected Conflict “, both 1947 and Ricardo Gascón.
in the last two opposite films, among others, the actor Amedeo Nazzari (1907-1979) which led to the director Vittorio de Sica to ask her to film Italy. The Portuguese actress declined the invitation.
In addition to film and radio, the actress also participated in several plays, both in Spain and in Portugal, and developed a singing career in various radio programs.
the actress ended a “brilliant career”, as the press reported, when she married the doctor António Pinto do Amaral, who divorced years later.
2011 was published the biography “Maria Eugenia, the radio girl”, written by Ruth Silva Correia.
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