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Gigolete

1924 Brazilian silent drama film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ17042154 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gigolete is a 1924 Brazilian silent drama film directed by Vittorio Verga. Most of the film has been destroyed with age although about 2 minutes of the finale has been restored today.

The film premiered in Rio de Janeiro on 4 June 1924.

Cast

Amélia de Oliveira as Liz

Augusto Aníbal as Maneco

Jaime Costa as Alvaro

Arthur Oliveira as Dr.

Editorial summary

“Gigolete” enters the record as 1924 Brazilian silent drama film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gigolete, Brazilian and silent can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924-06-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gigolete, Brazilian and silent.
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Why this record matters

“Gigolete” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gigolete, Brazilian and silent provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17042154. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gigolete” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.