Known for her fruit filled basket hat and magnificent voice, Carmen Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha in Lisbon, Portugal on September 9, 1909. Not long after she was born her family moved to Rio De Janeiro Brazil, where her father soon found work in growing produce. After dropping out of school, Carmen was signed to a record company, RCA. Movies soon followed including
ALO, ALO CARNAVAL (1936) and BANANA DA TERRA (1939). America soon beckoned the young budding actress, and in 1939, she found herself in the midst of New Yorkers, she got her first American Role in 20th
… More Century Fox's DOWN ARGENTINE WAY in 1940, she later went on to act in movies with such notable names as Betty Grable, Caesar Ramero and Vivian Blaine.
Throughout the rest of the 40s and into the 1950s she had steady work appearing in movies, her last silver-screen role being Scared Stiff (1953). On April 4, 1955, she was invited as a segment guest on the Jimmy Durante show where unbeknownst to her she suffered a heart attack. After returning home, the following night April 5, 1955, she succumbed to a fatal heart attack. Her body was flown back to Brazil, where her death was declared a day of mourning.
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