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.

Known For

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Scared Stiff

as Carmelita Castinha

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

The Gang's All Here

as Dorita

What's My Line?

as Self

Down Argentine Way

as Herself

Copacabana

as Carmen Novarro / Mlle. Fifi

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

That Night in Rio

as Carmen

It's All True

as Self