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Carmen Miranda
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, known professionally as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "the Brazilian Bombshell," she was known for her signature fruit hat outfits that she wore in her American films.
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entertainment · Brazilian singer (1909–1955) · actor · singer · dancer · film actor · also Carmen Miranda, Miranda
Born 9 February 1909 · Died 5 August 1955 · Q121655
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From this day forward, these colorful, vibrant images of our Latin music legends will travel on letters and packages to every single household in America. In this small way, we have created a lasting tribute to five extraordinary performers, and we are proud and honored to share their legacy with Americans everywhere through these beautiful stamps.
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Vou empregar todos os meus esforços para que a música popular do Brasil conquiste a América do Norte, o que seria um caminho para a sua consagração em todo o mundo.
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2024· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
Miranda was honored with a Google Doodle created by artist Sophie Diao to commemorate the 108th anniversary of her birth
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2011· 1 entry
“From this day forward, these colorful, vibrant images of our Latin music legends will travel on letters and packages to every single household in America. In this small way, we have created a lasting tribute to five extraordinary performers, and we are proud and honored to share their legacy with Americans everywhere through these beautiful stamps.”
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2009· 2 entries
Miranda served as the inspiration for a photo shoot on the 12th season of the reality TV show, America's Next Top Model
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Was the subject of São Paulo Fashion Week and a short film, Tutti Frutti, by German photographer Ellen von Unwerth
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2007· 1 entry
BBC Four produced Carmen Miranda – Beneath the Tutti Frutti Hat, a one-hour documentary which included interviews with biographer Ruy Castro, niece Carminha and Mickey Rooney
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Os Carnavais de Carmen”.
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Released album “Carmen Canta Sambas”.
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2005· 4 entries
Released album “Ultimate Collection”.
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Released album “Original Recordings 1930 - 1950”.
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Ruy Castro published Carmen – Uma Biografia, a 600-page biography of "the most famous Brazilian woman of the 20th century
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Released album “O melhor de Carmen Miranda”.
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2004· 2 entries
Caetano Veloso and David Byrne performed live at Carnegie Hall a song they had written together, "Dreamworld: Marco de Canaveses", that pays homage to Miranda
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Released album “Bombshell From Brazil”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Cocktail Hour”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Raízes do Samba”.
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1998· 2 entries
A square in Hollywood was named Carmen Miranda Square during a ceremony led by Hollywood’s honorary mayor, Johnny Grant (a friend of Miranda’s since World War II), and attended by Brazilian Consul General Jorió Gama, alo
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Released album “The Brazilian Bombshell: 25 Hits 1939-1947”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “1930-1945”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “South American Way”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Anthology”.
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Released album “Carmen Miranda”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “The Brazilian Recordings”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “The Brazilian Bombshell”.
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1991· 1 entry
Veloso wrote that "today, anything associated with Brazilian music in America – or with any music from the Southern Hemisphere in the Northern – makes us think of Carmen Miranda
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Carmen Miranda (Coleção Revivendo)”.
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1956· 1 entry
Her belongings were donated by her husband and family to the Carmen Miranda Museum, which opened in Rio on 5 August 1976
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1955· 2 entries
Died 1955-08-05.
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“Vou empregar todos os meus esforços para que a música popular do Brasil conquiste a América do Norte, o que seria um caminho para a sua consagração em todo o mundo.”
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1948· 2 entries
In 1948, Miranda became pregnant, but miscarried after a show.
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Miranda became pregnant, but miscarried after a show
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1947· 1 entry
And played opposite Groucho Marx in Copacabana
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1945· 1 entry
When Miranda appeared on ABC's The Andrews Sisters Show
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1944· 2 entries
Chiquita, whose fruit hat resembled Miranda's
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Miranda also starred with Don Ameche in Greenwich Village, a Fox musical with William Bendix and Vivian Blaine in supporting roles
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1943· 2 entries
Appeared in Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here
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Miranda starred in Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here, which featured musical numbers with the fruit hats that became her trademark
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1942· 1 entry
20th Century-Fox paid $60,000 to Lee Shubert to terminate his contract with Miranda, who finished her Sons o' Fun tour and began filming Springtime in the Rockies
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1941· 1 entry
Was the first Latin American star to be invited to leave her handprints and footprints in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and was the first South American honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1939· 3 entries
And Bonwit Teller created mannequins resembling the singer
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And contrary to popular belief, they were never made from real fruit
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Broadway producer Lee Shubert, after seeing Miranda perform at Cassino da Urca in Rio de Janeiro, offered her an eight-week contract to perform in The Streets of Paris
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1933· 2 entries
Miranda signed a two-year contract with Rádio Mayrink Veiga, the most popular Brazilian station of the 1930s, and was the first contract singer in Brazilian radio history; for a year, in 1937, she moved to Rádio Tupi
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Radio announcer Cesar Ladeira christened her "A Pequena Notável"
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1930· 2 entries
Giving them exclusive rights to her image
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For the 2003 telenovela Chocolate com Pimenta
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1910· 1 entry
With their daughters, Olinda (1907–1931) and Carmen, who was less than a year old
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1909· 3 entries
Born 1909-02-09.
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In Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada, a village in the northern Portuguese municipality of Marco de Canaveses
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Her father emigrated to Brazil and settled in Rio de Janeiro, where he opened a barber shop
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