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Carmen Miranda
Acting
09 Feb 1909
† 05 Aug 1955
Marco de Canaveses, Portugal
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.
Also Known As
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha
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Carmen Miranda's Movies
74%
That's Entertainment!
21 Jun 1974
64%
Scared Stiff
27 Apr 1953
60%
The Gang's All Here
24 Dec 1943
70%
That's Entertainment! III
01 Jul 1994
63%
Down Argentine Way
11 Oct 1940
53%
Copacabana
30 May 1947
63%
That Night in Rio
11 Apr 1941
59%
A Date with Judy
29 Jul 1948
76%
It's All True
17 Oct 1993
43%
Doll Face
31 Dec 1945
67%
Springtime in the Rockies
06 Nov 1942
69%
Week-End in Havana
17 Oct 1941
64%
Something for the Boys
01 Nov 1944
74%
Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business
13 Apr 1995
55%
Alô Alô Carnaval
20 Jan 1936
60%
Greenwich Village
27 Sept 1944
62%
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
06 Jun 2002
62%
It's All Brazil
18 Sept 1997
62%
Four Jills in a Jeep
17 Mar 1944
57%
Nancy Goes to Rio
10 Mar 1950
