Miluše Poupětová: life and works

Milú (Maria de Lourdes de Almeida Lemos) (1926 – 2008) was a Portuguese actor and singer.

Maria de Lourdes de Almeida Lemos was born on 24 April 1926 in Lisbon, capital of Portugal. By the age of ten she was stand-in as a singer upon the radio shows Rádio Graça and Rádio Sonora of the Portuguese national radio station Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão. Her first stage and movie performances were at the age of twelve. On performing she performed in children’s shows, while her first film role was in Aldeia da Roupas Branca, in which she performed afterward Beatriz Costa.

In 1943 Milú played a leading role in the Portuguese comedy film, O Costa accomplish Castelo, directed by Arthur Duarte, and starring António Silva and Maria Matos. She would go on to star in several other films directed by Duarte. In the similar year she married, with thousands of people turning in the works at the church to look her. She next announced that she was ceasing to perform, but she returned to the screen in 1946, after the marriage ended. In adjunct to Duarte, she worked like directors such as Manuel Guimarães, Constantino Esteves, Perdigão Queiroga, Armando de Miranda, and Ladislao Vajda. On the stage, she performed in Lisbon in vaudeville at the Teatro Avenida and Teatro Variedades.

In 1960, there was speculation that she would shape to Hollywood. However, instead, she married for the second time, to Luís de Magalhães Coutinho Nobre Guedes. They lived in Brazil amid 1960 and 1968 and had one daughter. She did little acting enactment during this time.

Her last film work was in 1981 at the age of 55. In the complex years of her cartoon she free her sight but she continued to sing, performing a duet afterward Patrícia Vasconcelos in 2007 that appeared in the latter’s album Se o Amor Fosse Só Isso.

Milú died on 5 November 2008, in Cascais, Portugal.