Carmen Miranda
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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 signatu
Miranda in a scene from the film Week-End in Havana (1941)
Travessa do Comércio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Miranda lived at number 13 when she was young.
Miranda in 1930
Poster for the 1936 Brazilian film, Hello, Hello, Carnival!
Week-End in Havana
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Week-End in Havana is a 1941 American Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Alice Faye, John Payne and Carmen Miranda. The film was produced and distributed by Hollywood studio
Carmen Miranda
…was later banned in Argentina for "wrongfully portraying life in Buenos Aires". Similar sentiments were voiced in Cuba after the debut of Miranda's Weekend in Havana (1941), with Cuban audiences offended by Miranda's portrayal of a Cuban woman. Her performances were arguably hybrids of Brazilian and other Latin…
Theatrical poster
Alice Faye
Carmen Miranda
John Payne