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CARMEN MIRANDA (1909-1955) comic actress/singer/dancer/Broadway actress. Films include 'Down Argentine Way' '40, 'That Night in Rio' '41, 'Week-End in Havana' '41, "Springtime in the Rockies' '42. 'The Gang's All Here' '43, 'Four Jills in a Jeep' '44, 'Greenwich Village' '44, 'Something for the Boys' '44, 'Doll Face' '45. 'If I'm Lucky' '46 'Cocacabana' '47, 'A Date with Judy' '48, 'Nancy Goes to Rio' '50, 'Scared Stiff' '53. (please follow minkshmink on pinterest) #carmenmiranda #forties

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Carmen Miranda, (1909-1955) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Nicknamed "The Brazilian Bombshell", Miranda is noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's All Here. By 1945, she was the highest paid woman in the United States.

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Carmen Miranda became the first South American to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is considered the precursor of Brazil's Tropicalismo cultural movement of the 1960s. A museum was later constructed in Rio de Janeiro in her honor, and in 1995 she was the subject of the acclaimed documentary Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business.

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CARMEN MIRANDA (1909-1955) comic actress/singer/dancer. Films include 'Down Argentine Way' '40, 'That Night in Rio' '41, 'Week-End in Havana' '41, "Springtime in the Rockies' '42. 'The Gang's All Here' '43, 'Four Jills in a Jeep' '44, 'Greenwich Village' '44, 'Something for the Boys' '44, 'Doll Face' '45. 'If I'm Lucky' '46 'Cocacabana' '47, 'A Date with Judy' '48, 'Nancy Goes to Rio' '50, 'Scared Stiff' '53. (please follow minkshmink on pinterest) #carmenmiranda #forties #victoryroll

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