Sua Vida Me Pertence (Portuguese for 'Your Life Belongs To Me') is a Brazilian television series known as the first telenovela produced in the country.
[1] The show was broadcast in black and white by the now defunct TV Tupi in São Paulo from 1951 to 1952.
[1] The series pioneered the telenovela genre worldwide, and featured Brazil's first live on-screen television kiss in broadcast history between actress Vida Alves and actor Wálter Forster.
[1] Unlike standard soap operas, it concentrated on one primary story line and reached a conclusion after a set number of episodes.
It was broadcast live, twice per week, for fifteen episodes, and centred upon the will-they won't-they romance between an attractive young girl, played by Vida Alves, and her lover, played by Wálter Forster, acting as a launch-pad to fame for the latter.