Biography
Carmen Miranda, born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer and actress. She moved to Brazil as an infant and began her career in Rio de Janeiro as a radio and recording artist in the late 1920s.
She rose to fame in Brazil during the 1930s and made her Broadway debut in 1939. Miranda appeared in fourteen Hollywood films between 1940 and 1953, including Down Argentine Way (1940), The Gang's All Here (1943) and Scared Stiff (1953). She was the first South American to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Miranda died in Beverly Hills on 5 August 1955.
