Carmen Miranda, 46, the explosive Brazilian star who set the hips of the nation swinging to the samba, was found dead yesterday in a hallway of her palatial home at 616 N. Bedford Drive ...

It’s been more than 70 years since Brazilian singer and actress Carmen Miranda rose to fame as the “Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat,” becoming one of the highest-paid actresses of the 1940s and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Carmen Miranda became Brazil's biggest international film star in the 1940s, the success abroad of the "Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat" was matched only by the rejection she ...

On February 9, 1909, future Hollywood star Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal. Her family soon relocated to Brazil, where Carmen became a young singing sensation. In the early 1940s she broke ...

It honors Carmen Miranda, the queen of samba, the ”Brazilian bombshell” of the 1930s and `40s, whose outlandish costumes, garish makeup and force of personality propelled her from Rio to ...

Known for her outrageous costumes and beautiful voice, Brazilian performer Carmen Miranda was the highest-earning woman in Hollywood in the 1940s. In the signature number in the 1943 extravaganza ...

But as the well-researched 1994 documentary “Carmen Miranda: Bananas is my Business” reveals, there was more to Miranda than American audiences ever realized, and it was partly this inability ...

The middle figure is Carmen Miranda, with Google marking what would have been her 108th birthday – but who was the woman known for wearing a basket hat? Carmen Miranda was born in Marco de ...

Decades ago, a Disney cartoon parrot and Carmen Miranda once played a part in U.S.-Brazilian diplomacy. President Biden and his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, are expected to meet face to ...