Luely Figueiró was a starlet from Rio Grande do Sul who came to São Paulo in the mid 1950s and acted at many films. She would live in both São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Luely was also a very good singer who eventually recorded a few singles and a full album for Continental Discos.
Ângela Maria, Helenina Costa, Ernani Filho, Elizeth Cardoso, Luely Figueiró, Lúcio Alves, Carminha Mascarenhas, Norma Benguel & David Durpré (a dancer) at 'Carrossel' a show on TV Rio in 1959.
Luely Figueiró at Radiolândia, 1958.
Luely Figueiró on the cover of Intervalo April 1963.
Revista do Rádio 1962.
Luely Figueiró at Intervalo in 1966.
'Manchete'.
Luely na capa de 'Fatos & Fotos' de 1951 e 1963.
'O Cruzeiro'.
Luely Figueiró tells Revista do Radio (early 1959) her romance with Lucio Alves has cooled.
20 May 1962 - OESP - Luely Figueiró is nominated for best supporting actress in 1961 Saci Awards granted by S.Paulo daily 'O Estado de S.Paulo' yearly.
Luely Figueiró * 26 September 1935 + 6 December 2010.
Continental Discos release a whole album sang magnificently by Luely Figueiró.
16 November 1957 - Hungarian director Ferenc Fekete's 'A doutora é muito viva' is a vehicle for Eliana Macedo, the most popular Brazilian actress in the 1950s. Francisco Negrão tries his best as a leading man but he didn't go too far after that. Luely Figueiró starts climbing up in popularity...
9 February 1958 - Alfredo Palácios' 'Vou te contá...' in which Luely Figueiró is the leading lady supported by Cinderela and Dorinha Duval.
14 December 1961 - Luely shares the top female billing with Violeta Ferraz and Renata Fronzi in 'Briga, mulher & samba', a Ronaldo Lupo comedy. Elza Soares, Miltinho, Tito Madi & Ribama, Moreira da Silva, Monsueto & others do the musical numbers.
29 July 1962 - 'Correio da Manhã' says 'Luely will return' from Europe soon!' Luely was one of the star in 'Skindo', an extravaganza performed in Lisbon and Paris.
Luely & Zé Trindade...
18 April 1963 - Wilson Silva's 'Nordeste sangrento' premieres in Rio de Janeiro. It opened in Sao Paulo in a later date.
'O Cruzeiro', 17 February 1962.
'O Cruzeiro', 1962.
15 December 1964 - Ruth Escobar presents Brecht's 'Dreigroschenoper' with Leny Eversong & great cast in which Luely Figueiró is prominent.
5 September 1965 - As late as 1965, Luely Figueiró appears at a musical extravaganza produced by Rio de Janeiro's TV Globo, Channel 4 that had been in business not long ago.
LÊDA FIGUEIRÓ, Luely's baby sister
Lêda Figueiró owes her short celebrity in Brazilian show business to the fact that she was Luely Figueiró's younger sister.
26 January 1964 - Rio de Janeiro daily 'Correio da Manhã' chats with Lêda Figueiró who tells them all about her life since she was born in 1940. She was born and raised in Porto Alegre-RS and arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1962 to live with her older sister Luely Figueiró - who had been in show business in São Paulo & Rio since 1956.
Leda says she started as a show-girl in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru. In Rio she performed at Haroldo Costa's radio show 'Em primeiro plano', at 'Skindô', a lavish musical revue that and had bit parts in movies like 'Briga, mulher e samba' and 'Nordeste sangrento' - both vehicles for her more famous sis.
Leda says she's prone to melancholia; she fills a great emptiness inside. I don't feel I am a woman who made it. I like Alvaro Moreira's poetry and have read everything Dostoesky wrote - that is all that has been translated into Portuguese.
Leda likes Bossa Nova and says it is one step ahead. She thinks Brazilian authorities should not ban tranvestite's balls in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. They are the best parties in town. Sometimes Leda wakes up at night, turns her record player on and listens to the works of Rubinstein and Grieg very soflty.
About her sister Luely Figueiró: I think she's an extraordinary woman; I am her biggest fan. She's a simple girl, with a congenial personality, she's a good singer, a good actress and mainly a good human being.
Leda finally says the greatest thing she's got is her 6 year-old son Marcus Vinicius, who was born in 1958, when I was only 18.
Leda says she's prone to melancholia; she fills a great emptiness inside. I don't feel I am a woman who made it. I like Alvaro Moreira's poetry and have read everything Dostoesky wrote - that is all that has been translated into Portuguese.
Leda likes Bossa Nova and says it is one step ahead. She thinks Brazilian authorities should not ban tranvestite's balls in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. They are the best parties in town. Sometimes Leda wakes up at night, turns her record player on and listens to the works of Rubinstein and Grieg very soflty.
About her sister Luely Figueiró: I think she's an extraordinary woman; I am her biggest fan. She's a simple girl, with a congenial personality, she's a good singer, a good actress and mainly a good human being.
Leda finally says the greatest thing she's got is her 6 year-old son Marcus Vinicius, who was born in 1958, when I was only 18.
Leda Figueiró on the cover of 'Revista do Radio' no.704, 16 March 1963.
