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Let's Do The Copacabana: Carmen Miranda's Fifi costumes. The film Copacabana (1947) showed the Brazilian performer Carmen Miranda in new roles and established her as a fashion icon. By...
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha GCIH, OMC (9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaʁmẽj miˈɾɐ̃dɐ]), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress.
22 de abr. de 2015 · Known for her outrageous costumes and beautiful voice, Brazilian performer Carmen Miranda was the highest-earning woman in Hollywood in the 1940s.
In the decades after her death, Miranda was held up by a new generation of artists as an ambivalent but beloved pioneer of Brazilian culture on the world stage and her legacy was summed up...
- She Was Born in Portugal
- She Worked at A Hat Boutique
- She Began Her Music Career Singing on Radio Shows
- She Was Discovered at A Casino
- She Landed A Contract with 20th Century Fox
- She Was The Highest-Paid Actress at Her Peak
- She Was Booed Off Stage in Brazil
- She Was A Real Estate Mogul
- She Died at 46
- Her Last Project Almost Got Scrapped After Her Death
Considering the fact that she became the most popular representation of South American, specifically Brazilian, culture during her lifetime, it might come as a surprise that Carmen Miranda wasn’t even born there. Instead, she was born in Marco de Canavesses, Portugalon February 9, 1909. Her father was a traveling salesman and moved from Portugal to...
Carmen became eternalized for her over-the-top fruit hats and platform shoes. But despite the fact that her get-up was an exaggeration of the Brazilian culture Hollywood was trying to portray, she actually began working in a hat boutique at the age of 15 – before her start in music. At the boutique, she would come up with new designs, many of which...
In 1929, Carmen made her start in music when she recorded her first album – which did alright. The following year, she recorded “Prá Você Gostar de Mim,” written by Joubert Carvalho, which shot her to Brazilian stardom. The record sold like hot cakes and she became the embodiment of Brazilian samba. That was the push she needed to truly pursue her ...
Her music career really took off in Brazil. One night, while performing a stage show at one of Rio’s most famous casinos, Casino Urqua, she had no idea that there was a New York Broadway producer in the audience. He was Lee Shubert, and he was so entertained and enamored with her performance that when she finished her show, he invited her to Americ...
Carmen was a Broadway sensation. She was brought to New York with her backup band, “Bando da Lua,” and critics from all around the US praised her showmanship. That kind of praise did not go unnoticed, and her growing popularity in America quickly earned her a film contract with 20th Century Fox. Her first major movie role would come in the form of ...
Not surprisingly, all of the success and praise she received in America quickly made her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. At her peak in 1945, it is estimated that she had earned over $2oo,ooo that year alone, which is approximately $3.2 million by today’s standards. Her catchy songs and swinging hips hypnotized the American population, and p...
For all of the praise she was receiving in North America, she was not given the same back home in South America. In fact, her number one film, Down Argentine Way, was actually banned in Argentina as people saw it as an insulting and inauthentic portrayal of the country. A large part of Brazil shared these negative feelings toward Carmen, viewing he...
Beyond her music career, Carmen was actually a successful and sound minded businesswoman. She took the money she was earning in Hollywood and invested it so that she was covered should her career start to taper off (the way that it did following the war). She had purchased homes in Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, and Rio de Janeiro, and just in case, ...
Carmen liked to party. For years she had suffered from depression and substance abuse, and the constant partying did not help, but up until this point she had been described as being in good health. After taping a show for NBC, she invited some staff and friends back to her home for a night of fun. She danced and performed and enjoyed herself. She ...
More from us: Did He Really Love Lucy? The Tumultuous Relationship of Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz Carmen Miranda’s death was unexpected. She had just finished a TV film with Jimmy Durante for NBC, and the company’s officials were unsure whether they should scrap the episode, considering her surprise heart attack, or if they should let it run anyway...
4 de ago. de 2016 · Carmen Miranda. It’s hard to ignore the stereotypical associations aligned with Carmen Miranda, but the Luso-Brazilian bombshell was far more than a fruit-filled headdress and colorful...
5 de ago. de 2023 · Tenía 46 años. Cuando su cuerpo llegó a Río de Janeiro, una multitud estimada en cerca de un millón de personas salió a las calles a honrar a quien era la imagen más poderosa de Brasil en el...
