Elvira Pagã
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| Born |
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino 6 September 1920 Itararé, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Died | 8 May 2003 (aged 82) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Occupation | vedette, actress, singer, writer |
| Years active | 1935–1985 |
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã (1920–2003), was a Brazilian vedette and actress, singer, writer and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to have cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she broke the status-quo and faced the reigning "machismo" with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s, where she lived with determination and courage. Pagã retired from public life, wrote and painted in her later years, dying a recluse.
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino was born on 6 September 1920 in Itararé, São Paulo, Brazil. She moved as a child with her family to Rio de Janeiro and attended the convent school Immaculate Conception. As a student, she organized events with her sister Rosina Pagã, and members of Bando da Lua, to establish connections with the artistic community in Rio.
In 1935, Elvira debuted with her sister on the show Cine Ipanema as the Pagã Sisters, with the master of ceremonies Heitor Beltrão. They also sang as a duo on Rádio Mayrink Veiga, recording thirteen albums with composers such as Lamartine Babo, Ary Barroso, Braguinha, and Assis Valente. That same year, the sisters made their film debut in the movie Alô Alô Carnaval, with Francisco Alves, Dircinha Batista and Carmen Miranda. The following year, they appeared in the movie Cidade-Mulher, directed by Humberto Mauro, singing the title song "Noel Rosa" with Orlando Silva. The sisters then went on the Rio Carnival circuit with the song "Não te dou a chupeta", and toured for four months through Argentina, Chile and Peru. They made three more films together, O Bobo do Rei (1936), Tres anclados en París (1938) and Favela (1939), before splitting up due to Elvira's 1940 marriage to Theodoro Eduardo Duvivier Filho, nullified in 1951.
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