Ava Gardner
And an exchange of shifts at the last minute prevented Julio Isidro from being the protagonist that dawn on Thursday.
Júlio Isidro was 29 years old in 1974. A few days before April 25think that being Emigrant. In fact, he was already emigrant.
The historic speaker says he had left the troop without being mobilized for the colonial war: he was in 2nd place in his course, with a grade of 16.36 values. And as the first to be mobilized for war were the worst…
Even so, I knew it would later be called to war before the age of 35.
Your idea was to go to England. And it was. It was twice, in 1973, the second, after making a report about musical recordings by the Green Windows group, spoke to his aunt, who was already living in England, and stayed at her house.
“My decision was to stay. And I was. They came away, I got a pretext and I was,” he recalls at.
Next Step: Arrange a job. At that time, the easiest job to get was to be butler or driver of movie stars.
And, in fact, there was a place to be a driver of Ava Gardnerone of the greatest figures of that “golden age” of Hollywood. Also other vacancies, but Julio preferred to be a driver of the talented and beautiful Ava Gardner (who was also the wife of Frank Sinatra).
But she was never an employee linked to Ava, never saw her even. Why? Because of March 16 and the famous military survey in the Queen’s Caldas. This attempt to coup d’état, a, already left the idea that something would change in Portugal.
Therefore, Júlio Isidro called Luís Filipe Costa, boss at RCP – Radio Clube Portuguese. Asked: “Do you think it’s worth going back?”; Louis replied: “Vale”.
“I bought the ticket and came back.” That is, it was never a driver of Ava Gardner.
The shift of Joaquim Furtado
Announcer and author of radio programs (radio only at the time) was not unhappy, but was against the Estado Novo – even because of his profession.
Interestingly, at dawn on April 25, 1974, until It would be precisely Júlio Isidro to lead the emission of Radio Clube Portuguese. That is, it would be Julius to read the famous statement from the Armed Forces movement; but Joaquim Furtado asked to change the shift.
“And thankfully he (reading the statement). He was very well delivered,” says Júlio Isidro today.
