Carmen Miranda

Born: 1909-02-09, Marco de Canaveses, Portugal

Died: 1955-08-05

Biography

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha GOIH • OMC (Marco de Canaveses, February 9, 1909 – Beverly Hills, August 5, 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress who attained fame in Brazil and the US in the 1930s. Best known to American audiences as "the lady in the tutti-frutti hat" due to her signature headdresses made of fruits, she was the first South American honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Filmography

• Estudantes (1935)
• Scared Stiff (1953)
• That's Entertainment! (1974)
• Alô, Alô, Brasil (1935)
• Greenwich Village (1944)
• Copacabana (1947)
• A Date with Judy (1948)
• That's Entertainment! III (1994)
• The Gang's All Here (1943)
• Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026)
• A Voz do Carnaval (1933)
• That Night in Rio (1941)
• Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
• Down Argentine Way (1940)
• Doll Face (1945)
• Aurora Miranda - A Irmã Notável de Carmen (2002)
• Alô Alô Carnaval (1936)
• Week-End in Havana (1941)
• The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2002)
• Something for the Boys (1944)
• Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
• Banana-da-Terra (1939)
• Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)
• Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
• Bahia de Todos os Sambas (1996)
• If I'm Lucky (1946)