"The Brazilians don't know Carmen Miranda as they should," says Heloísa ... in 1948 she talked about the cultural roots of all that fruit. "In Brazil in Bahia, the girls carry the basket with ...

Of course, the story of fruit in Latin America is also the story of exploitation. To many Brazilians of the time, Carmen Miranda's empty lyrics and her massive fruit headdress was an offensive ...

Carmen Miranda`s frenetic dancing and staccato singing ... towering turbans overflowing with fruit. ”This collection is invaluable,” said Martha Kaplan, curator of the state-run museum ...

best known as the one with the fruit on her head who inspired the old Chiquita Banana commercials. But as the well-researched 1994 documentary “Carmen Miranda: Bananas is my Business” reveals ...

Part of what Carmen Miranda did was diplomacy. It was pedagogical, teaching the U.S. public to consume this fruit that was so weird and so tropical. That was crucial.” In 2012, the cast of ...

Carmen Miranda was born in Marco de Canaveses ... Miranda regularly saw baianas, Afro-Brazilian fruit vendors, during her childhood in Rio. She first discovered her musical talent while working ...

Carmen Miranda is a rare example of a triple threat ... Inspired by baianas, Afro-Brazilian fruit vendors, Miranda donned a "fruit hat" when she performed. It would become her signature as ...

On February 9, 1909, future Hollywood star Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal ... Miranda performed in platform shoes and her signature tropical fruit headgear, as in the 1943 Busby Berkeley ...

Carmen Miranda, 46, the explosive Brazilian star ... The tiny actress, famed for her huge, fruit-salad hats and her high platform shoes, had completed the filming of a television comedy with ...

The Carmen Miranda Story,” now playing at the Pointless ... and wears the astonishing fruit-cluster headdresses that were Miranda’s trademark. As she sang in Berkeley’s 1943 film “The ...