Carmen Miranda
Birthday: 1909-02-09
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affir...
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Scared Stiff
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who ...
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Springtime in the Rockies
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky ta...
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Down Argentine Way
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine h...
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That Night in Rio
An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carr...
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The Gang's All Here
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific....
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Week-End in Havana
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is s...
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Copacabana
A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub – as two separate acts. The deception and constan...
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Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...
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It's All True
A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America....
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A Date with Judy
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance...
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Nancy Goes to Rio
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man....
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Doll Face
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show becau...
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If I'm Lucky
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertain...
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It's All Brazil
A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True...
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Something for the Boys
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who ge...
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Greenwich Village
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue....
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Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brou...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business
A biography of the Portuguese-born Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature w...
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas....
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Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
An irresistible journey through the universe of the singer and composer that revolutionized the song...
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Banana-da-Terra
A man in charge of a publicity campaign for bananas decides to kidnap the Queen of 'Bananaland', a t...
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Carmen Miranda
Short documentary about Carmen Miranda, with some of her songs, rare footage of the "lost" film "Ban...
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Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
Profile of famed dance director Busby Berkeley's career, in particular "The Gang's All Here"...
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Hello, Hello, Brazil!
A man is looking for a radio singer named "Dulcineia." For this, he goes through the biggest hassles...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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Mulheres de Cinema
Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film ...
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The All-Star Bond Rally
Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds thro...
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Salsa
The Fania All Stars perform for 44,000 fans at Yankee stadium in New York. Besides concert footage, ...
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Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
A look at Rio's cultural, political and technical revolutions since the 1970s to 2011...
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Garoto - Vivo Sonhando
A prodigy of stringed instruments, a pioneer of Bossa Nova, a modernizing master of the guitar: Aníb...
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Dê Lembranças a Todos
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi c...
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
An aspiring singer is tasked with promoting the music catalogue of his great-grandfather, the famous...
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Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
The film reveals the creation of poet Dorival Caymmi's musical works with testimonies from researche...
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Naked Eye
“Naked Eye” is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the sin...
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Hooray for Hollywood
A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreel...
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The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies....
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3 Obás de Xangô
The friendship between Jorge Amado, Dorival Caymmi, and Carybé, artists who were largely responsible...
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