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Carmen Miranda

Born 1909-02-09

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.

Known for

The Gang's All Here 1943 · 6.6 A Date with Judy 1948 · 6.5 Copacabana 1947 · 6.1 It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles 1993 · 7.1