In order to give a better sense of her to the museum, a local artist, Ulisses Rabelo, is creating 20 Carmen Miranda busts to display the museum’s headdresses. Rabelo was a Miranda fan since ...

Many across the world will have loaded up Google this morning and been greeted with a Doodle of ladies in colourful headwear. The middle figure is Carmen Miranda, with Google marking what would ...

Carmen Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda ... Miranda's fruit basket headdresses were famous Credit: Wikimedia Channelling these influence, Miranda one day decided to don a headdress ...

Carmen Miranda`s frenetic dancing and staccato singing ... heavy acrylic-covered headdress she showed Groucho Marx in ”Copacabana” (1947)–are not here, the collection includes her wedding ...

Carmen Miranda, whose real name is Maria ... look and allowed her to branch out into a series of colourful headdresses. Miranda had a number of songs that helped cement her fame as one of the ...

Her real full name is Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, but her father, who beat her mother when he discovered she had allowed Maria to audition for a radio show, did not want her performing with ...

Carmen Miranda was rich, powerful ... exuberant songs and impossibly large fruit-basket headdresses,which only grew in proportion with her fame. Today, Miranda, decked out in her prodigious ...

People in Carmen Miranda headdresses flitted among the Boston glitterati (or should I say glitter-horti). The man of the hour, Massachusetts Horticultural Society's new director Thomas Herrera ...