Carmen Miranda
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.
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Acting History
2025
3 Obás de Xangô as Self (archive footage)
2024Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi as Self (archive footage)
2024I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story as Self (archive footage)
2024Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos as Self (archive footage)
2020Garoto - Vivo Sonhando as Self (archive footage)
2018Dê Lembranças a Todos as Self (archive footage)
2014Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca as Self (archive footage)
2014Naked Eye as Self (archive footage)
2007Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star as Self (archive footage)
2006Legends as Self (archive footage)
2002The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
1997It's All Brazil as Self (archive footage)
1997Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self
1996Bahia de Todos os Sambas as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business as Self (archive footage)
1994That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1993It's All True as Self
1991A Embaixatriz do Samba as Self
1982Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
1978Mulheres de Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1976Salsa as (archive footage)
1976Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1974That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969Isto é Lamartine
1969Carmen Miranda as Self
1954The Jimmy Durante Show as Self
1953Scared Stiff as Carmelita Castinha
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950Nancy Goes to Rio as Marina Rodrigues
1950What's My Line? as Self
1948A Date with Judy as Rosita Cochellas
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1947Copacabana as Carmen Novarro / Mlle. Fifi
1946If I'm Lucky as Michelle O'Toole
1945Doll Face as Chita Chula
1945The All-Star Bond Rally as Self - Pinup Girl
1944Something for the Boys as Chiquita Hart
1944Greenwich Village as Princess Querida O'Toole
1944Four Jills in a Jeep as Carmen Miranda
1943The Gang's All Here as Dorita
1942Springtime in the Rockies as Rosita Murphy
1941Week-End in Havana as Rosita Rivas
1941That Night in Rio as Carmen
1940Down Argentine Way as Herself
1939Banana-da-Terra as Queen of Bananaland
1936Alô Alô Carnaval
1935Estudantes as Mimi
1935Hello, Hello, Brazil! as Themself
1933A voz do Carnaval
1930Steps of Life