Carmen Miranda was a young hatmaker before she was invited to display her singing talents at a music academy. That attempt proved successful and she went on to become a popular singer in clubs and on radio in Brazil. It was during this time that she developed the costume with the distinctive fruit hat from the traditional headdress seen on black women fruit sellers...See full bio »
1995Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business
(documentary)
(performer: "Aquarela do Brasil", "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat", "Chica Chica Boom Chic", "A Week-End in Havana", "South American Way")
1950Nancy Goes to Rio
(performer: "Yipsee-I-O" - uncredited, "Baião Ca-Room' Pa Pa" - uncredited)
1948A Date with Judy
(performer: "Cooking With Gas", "Cuanto La Gusta", "Its a Most Unusual Day" Reprise #2 - Finale)
1947Copacabana
(performer: "Tico Tico No Fubá", "Je Vous Aime", "He Hasn't Got a Thing to Sell", "To Make a Hit with Fifi", "Let's Do The Copacabana")
1946If I'm Lucky
(performer: "Follow the Band" - uncredited, "Bet Your Bottom Dollar" - uncredited, "Botocudo" - uncredited)
1945Doll Face
(performer: "Chico Chico" - uncredited)
1944Something for the Boys
(performer: "WOULDN'T IT BE NICE?", "BATUCA NEGA", "SAMBA-BOOGIE")
1944Greenwich Village
(performer: "I'm Just Wild About Harry" - uncredited, "I Like to Be Loved by You" - uncredited, "Give Me a Band and a Bandana")
1944Four Jills in a Jeep
(performer: "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" - uncredited, "Mamãe Eu Quero" - uncredited)
1943The Gang's All Here
(performer: "Brazil Aquarela Do Brasil" - uncredited, "You Discover You're in New York" - uncredited, "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat" - uncredited, "Paducah" - uncredited)
1942Springtime in the Rockies
(performer: "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "O 'Tic-Tac' do Meu Coração", "Pan American Jubilee")
1941Week-End in Havana
(performer: "A Week-End in Havana", "Rebola a Bola Embolada", "When I Love, I Love", "The Ñango Nyango")
1941That Night in Rio
(performer: "Chica Chica Boom Chic" - uncredited, "Cai Cai" - uncredited, "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi I Like You Very Much" - uncredited, "Boa Noite Good-Night" - uncredited)
1940Down Argentine Way
(performer: "Bambu Bambu" - uncredited, "Mamãe Yo Quero" 1940 - uncredited, "South American Way" 1939 - uncredited)
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