- In the early 1950s, Clara d'Ovar opened a small restaurant in Paris called Lisboa, renamed Le Fado / Uma Casa Portuguesa, where she sang the national song, Fado, and had other invited fadistas. This venture proved to be successful for years.
- After the failure of Merci Natercia! (1960), that was shown in Portugal and Brazil in a version edited by herself a couple of years later, Clara d'Ovar worked as producer in two other Portuguese-French co-productions that did not materialize: La Barque Sur l'Ocean, directed by Maurice Clavel, and Cartas da Religiosa Portuguesa, directed by António Lopes Ribeiro.
- Worked in Paris with her brother Zeni d'Ovar since the 1950s, who was also a fado singer and an admirer and friend of Amália Rodrigues to whom he dedicated a book of poems he wrote.
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