Virgin Lips
About Virgin Lips
Lelita, a rich young woman, meets Paulo by chance and then again at a party, and the two start an affair. She finds her cousin Didi in tears over a man named Paulo Morano and decides her Paulo is courting them both. Paulo says his former girlfriend Tamar planted the story. Lelita sets out to make him keep a promise to Didi, and the two Paulos turn out not to be the same man.
Cast & crew
More about Virgin Lips
Lábios sem Beijos was Cinédia's first film. Adhemar Gonzaga and Arlindo Muccilo wrote it, Humberto Mauro directed and photographed it, and Paramount distributed it in Brazil. It opened in Rio de Janeiro on November 10, 1930, with Portuguese intertitles. A version Gonzaga had planned in 1929, with Carmen Santos, was abandoned and reshot.
Themes
Look
Humberto Mauro photographed as well as directed, using Rio streets along with the staged party and the confrontation.
Preservation
A print survives. The film is silent, with Portuguese intertitles, not an early talkie.
Notes
- The Portuguese title means lips without kisses. English-language listings also call it Virgin Lips.
- Lelita Rosa plays Lelita, Paulo Morano plays Paulo, and Didi Viana plays Didi.
- Tamar Moema plays Tamar, and Augusta Guimarães plays Perpétua.
- It received the Jornal do Brasil prize for best Brazilian film of 1930.
- State censorship boards cut different scenes. One Rio office classed it as unfit for minors and young women.
- Before release, Gonzaga told the magazine A Ordem that Cinédia had been founded to make Brazilian films with Brazilian capital.
Awards
- Jornal do Brasil prize for best Brazilian film (1930)
Scenes
- Lelita finds Didi crying and hears the name Paulo Morano.
- The meeting that was supposed to bind Paulo to Didi clears the mix-up instead.
