Vida Alves
| Vida Alves | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Vida Amélia Guedes Alves April 15, 1928 Itanhandu, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Died | January 3, 2017 (aged 88) São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Occupation | Actress, writer |
| Spouse(s) | Gianni Gasparinetti (1949–2017; her death) |
Vida Amélia Guedes Alves (April 15, 1928 – January 3, 2017) was a Brazilian actress and pioneer of early Brazilian television whose career spanned more than seventy years. In 1951, Alves made history when she and actor Walter Forster performed the first on-screen kiss ever broadcast on Brazilian television on the early telenovela series, Sua Vida Me Pertence. In 1963, Alves made television history once again by sharing the first gay kiss shown on Brazilian television with actress Geórgia Gomide on the teleteatro show, TV de Vanguarda.
Additionally, Alves co-founded the Associação dos Pioneiros da Televisão, or Association of Television Pioneers (Pró-TV), in 1995 and operated the Museu da Televisão Brasileira from her home in São Paulo.
Vida Alves was born on April 15, 1928, in Itanhandu, a mining city in Minas Gerais. She moved to the city of São Paulo to pursue acting. She began her career in radio before transitioning to film and early television roles. Her film roles included Paixão Tempestuosa in 1954 and A Pequena Órfã in 1973.
Alves was cast in Sua Vida Me Pertence, Brazil's first telenovela and a pioneer of the television genre, which debuted on TV Tupi in 1951. She co-starred in the series with Walter Forster, an actor who was also TV Tupi's director. In 1951, Alves and Forster shared the first on-screen kiss ever broadcast on Brazilian television. Alves and Forster rehearsed their scene in her living room under the watch of her husband, Gianni Gasparinetti, who gave his permission. Alves and Gasparinetti were newlyweds at the time and Forster was a close friend of the couple. According to Alves, who spoke of the scene in a December 2016 interview, "We [She and Forster] lived very close, a block away...It was a technical kiss. Walter Foster showed up at my house and said, 'Let's rehearse.' My husband thought it was kind of weird, but he agreed." Alves historic kiss was performed live on television and not taped, so unfortunately no copy of Brazil's first on-screen kiss exists.
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