Nilza Magrassi
Biography
Nilza Magrassi (Rio de Janeiro, December 13, 1918 - Rio de Janeiro, March 12, 2010) was a Brazilian actress. She worked actively in national cinema in the 1930s and 1940s and also on the radio until the 1950s. (Wikipedia)
Known For & Full Filmography8 Titles
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as No camarim
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A lawyer and an elderly professor (who has been engaged to his cousin for so long), make a plan to freely enjoy the delights of a wild party, far from those who know them. (Cinemateca Brasileira)
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Convidada, modista de Paris
A poor woman passes herself as singer that just arrives from Frances and becames a sensation on Rio de Janeiro's high society.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Fernandinha
Badly advised by a high-class friend (who covets her husband) and by her scatterbrained father (always preoccupied with making cocktails), singer Noêmia forces her husband to abandon suburban life for the noisy 'big life' of Copacabana.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A wealthy sugar mill owner, widowed and living with his only son, suffers from profound melancholy. To alleviate his suffering, he seeks entertainment in the form of any jerk willing to lend a hand. Among the many candidates his secretary presents to fill the "position", a certain "Penguin", who along with his sister "Picolé" lives on the favela hill under the protection of a kind Portuguese shopkeeper, completely pleases the "sovereign" of sugar. With "Penguin"'s entry into the court as the sugar king's "fool", great transformations take place in the home of the wealthy misanthrope.