Line #54 Creator/CarmenMiranda


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3	->''"Carmen Miranda, Carmen Miranda\
4	Was she a dancer? Was she a singer?\
5	No one knows, they just remember the fruit."''
6	-->-- '''Carter Pewterschmidt''', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
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8	Carmen Miranda (born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha; 9 February 1909--5 August 1955) was a Portuguese-Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress.
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10	Miranda, a native Portuguese, came to Brazil in 1910 and became a popular radio star there in the 1920s. She entered film in the '30s and made her Hollywood debut in 1940 with ''Down Argentine Way''. She was at least partially responsible for popularizing {{Samba}} and platform shoes in the United States, and by 1945 was the highest-paid woman in Hollywood.
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12	Despite her lively, fun, and vibrant image, her personal life was a great deal more tempestuous. An unhappy marriage and an addiction to alcohol and barbiturates would ultimately contribute to her premature death in 1955 of pre-eclampsia.
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15	!!Filmography:
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17	* ''A Voz do Carnaval'' (1933)
18	* ''Alô, Alô, Brasil'' (1935)
19	* ''Estudantes'' (1935)
20	* ''Hello, Hello, Carnival!'' (1936)
21	* ''Banana da Terra'' (1939)
22	* ''Laranja-da-China'' (1940)
23	* ''Film/DownArgentineWay'' (1940)
24	* ''That Night in Rio'' (1941)
25	* ''Week-End in Havana'' (1941)
26	* ''Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy'' (1941)
27	* ''Springtime in the Rockies'' (1942)
28	* ''Film/TheGangsAllHere'' (1943)
29	* ''Greenwich Village'' (1944)
30	* ''Something for the Boys'' (1944)
31	* ''Four Jills in a Jeep'' (1944)
32	* ''The All-Star Bond Rally'' (1945)
33	* ''Doll Face'' (1945)
34	* ''If I'm Lucky'' (1946)
35	* ''Copacabana'' (1947)
36	* ''WesternAnimation/SlickHare'' (1947)
37	* ''A Date with Judy'' (1948)
38	* ''The Ed Wynn Show'' (1949)
39	* ''Texaco Star Theater'' (1949-1952)
40	* ''Film/NancyGoesToRio'' (1950)
41	* ''Don [=McNeill's=] TV Club'' (1951)
42	* ''What's My Line?'' (1951)
43	* ''The Colgate Comedy Hour'' (1951-1952)
44	* ''All-Star Revue'' (1951-1953)
45	* ''Film/ScaredStiff'' (1953)
46	* ''Toast of the Town'' (1953)
47	* ''The Jimmy Durante Show'' (1955)
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50	!!Tropes
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52	* BilingualDialogue: Often her characters will, in the heat of the moment, go between English and Portuguese (often with hilarious outcomes).
53	* ButNotTooForeign: Brazil picked her as its cultural representative during the 1940s when the US was attempting to foster good relations with Latin America because she was still a white woman, and therefore corresponded to their ideals (wishing the perception of Latin America to be viewed as modern and metropolitan aka white). Ironically, once World War II was over, she had troubles in Hollywood since, although white, her foreignness still had her pegged as 'other'.
54	* TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires: Even though she was Portuguese-Brazilian, she has often been seen as a Latina/Hispanic icon and has influenced many Hispanic cultural depictions.
55	* CostumePorn: In over a dozen years onstage and in film, she had dozens of stunning costumes and hundreds of dazzling accessories. There is even a museum in possession of over [[http://www.carmenmiranda.com 3,000 costume pieces.]]
56	* EdibleThemeClothing: She popularized the fruit hat, to the point where anyone with a bowl of fruit or bananas on their heads is a [[StockShoutOuts stock shout-out]].
57	* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Her dazzling and chunky jewelry are part of her image
58	* IconicItem: She is the original [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLsTUN1wVrc Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat, after all.]]
59	* IronyAsSheIsCast:[[invoked]] She was often portrayed as someone who could barely speak English and [[YouNoTakeCandle spoke it brokenly]]. While she spoke very little when she moved to Hollywood, she became fluent very quickly, and the broken English was a studio note. She would be able to speak it much more naturally in her later films.
60	* MotorMouth: In her movies, her characters often talk quickly when they get excited.
61	* MusicOfThe1940s: Helped popularize samba during that era in the United States.
62	* PimpedOutDress: Many of her costumes are extravagant, over the top dresses.
63	* {{Samba}}: Helped popularize the genre in the United States.
64	%%* ShowSomeLeg: The majority of her costumes showing them off.
65	* StockShoutOuts: As the original or at least definitive wearer of the fruit hat. Generations of audiences who've never seen any of her films instantly think of her name when they see someone dancing to samba (or other Latin or tropical genres) with a bowl of fruit on their heads.

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