Carmen Miranda
Actor
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.
Filmography
Scared Stiff
as Carmelita Castinha 1953
The Gang's All Here
as Dorita 1943
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) 1994
Copacabana
as Carmen Novarro / Mlle. Fifi 1947
Down Argentine Way
as Herself 1940
A Date with Judy
as Rosita Cochellas 1948
That Night in Rio
as Carmen 1941
It's All True
as Self 1993
Doll Face
as Chita Chula 1945
Springtime in the Rockies
as Rosita Murphy 1942
Week-End in Havana
as Rosita Rivas 1941
Something for the Boys
as Chiquita Hart 1944
Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business
as Self (archive footage) 1995
Alô Alô Carnaval
1936
Greenwich Village
as Princess Querida O'Toole 1944
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002