CARMEN MIRANDA: BANANAS IS MY BUSINESS. A documentary by Helena Solberg. In English and Portuguese with English subtitles. At the Film Forum. Running time: 90 mins. Not rated by the MPAA, but conta… ...

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 ...

Swaying to the pounding samba beat, tourists pranced down the aisles of an unusual museum in a nondescript building just off Rio`s Flamengo Beach. It honors Carmen Miranda, the queen of samba, the ...

Carmen Miranda was born in Marco de Canaveses, a northern Portugese municipality, on 9 February 1909. She moved to Brazil before the age of two, to join her father, who had set up a barber’s ...

Since stepping her tiny feet into New York in 1939, no one has better represented Brazil than Carmen Miranda. With her fruit covered turbans, puffy sleeves and sensual hand movements meant to ...

Inspired by baianas, Afro-Brazilian fruit vendors, Miranda donned a "fruit hat" when she performed. It would become her signature as her star soared, first in Brazil and then, worldwide. Carmen ...

It has 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 ...

On February 9, 1909, future Hollywood star Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal. ... "In Brazil, in Bahia, the girls carry a basket with their fruit on their heads," she said.

It’s about the United Fruit Company. It’s about packaging that. ... More than 70 years have passed since Carmen Miranda became the lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat, ...