Norma Bengell (Actor)

Reviews of Norma Bengell Movies

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Movies starring Norma Bengell have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 68%.

The Unscrupulous Ones - released in 1962 - is Norma Bengell's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Norma Bengell is Planet of the Vampires - released in 1965 - with a score of 59% based on 52 reviews.

Actor Biography

Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães DÁurea Bengell (born September 21, 1935 in Rio de Janeiro), best known as Norma Bengell, is a Brazilian film and television actress, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter.

The Active in the film industry since 1959, Bengell has appeared in numerous international productions, including an extended period during the mid-1960s co-starring in Italian productions, in which she was usually cast as the protagonist''s romantic interest. She is possibly best known for starring with Barry Sullivan in Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965) and in Sergio Corbucci''s spaghetti western The Hellbenders (1967). She had a major role as a prostitute in Anselmo Duarte''s " Keeper of Promises (1962), a Brazilian drama that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film in 1963, and won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962. Earlier that same year, she caused major controversy after than appearing fully nude in a scene of the Ruy Guerra film Os Cafajestes. For that, she is regarded as the first mainstream actress of her country to appear fully naked on film.

On 1996 she directed her first film, an adaptation of Joseph Alencar''s masterpiece The Guarani.

Norma Bengell has acted in films with Ángel Aranda, Massimo Righi, Liza Minnelli and Joseph Cotten.

Norma Bengell has worked with these film directors: Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Raphael Alvarez and Tatiana Issa.