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Carmen Miranda Is Born
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha was born on February 9th 1909 in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal. She is now known as Carmen Miranda, The chiquita lady , and the Brazilian Bombshell. -
Carmen And Her Family Are Moving To Brazil
Her devoutly catholic parents moved to Brazil when she was an infant. Her convent education necessitated that she keep her entertainment business dreams well hidden, and she began as a department store clerk, entertaining her co-workers.(devoutly means ~sincere or religious or earnest) -
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Music Career
A weekly radio slot led to her receiving her first recording contract with RCA in 1928. By the early 1930s, she made her film debut in the Brazilian film A Voz do Carnaval. Maintaining both her acting and recording careers in Brazil, she had recorded over 300 singles by 1939. -
Carmen At RCA In 1932
Maintaining both her acting and recording careers in Brazil, she had recorded over 300 singles by 1939. That's ALOT! -
Carmen Has An Ailment
She became ill in 1943, which resulted in emergency surgery for a stomach ailment. A period of depression, mental exhaustion, and reliance on medication followed which altered her for the rest of her life.
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Her Return (Her Movie)
Hollywood became less interested in her , so she returned to the nightclub s again, making appearances at El Rancho in Las Vegas and the London Palladium in 1948. Her final film was Scared Stiff, with Jerry Lewis, in 1953. -
Carmen Health Is Not Great
Her health declined further and, returning to Brazil in 1954, protective custody was ordered by her doctor, following a fainting spell at the airport. -
Carmen's Health Is Getting Better She Is Able To Preform Again
In April 1955, she returned to Hollywood feeling healthy, looking better than she had in years and willing to go back to the stage. -
Carmen's Final Hours
She joined friends and family members at home for a party, where she seemed in high spirits and, despite her delicate health, danced and sang on August 4th 1955. -
Carmen Stars On The Jimmy Durante
On 4 August 1955, while recording a exhausting dance number for the Jimmy Durante Show, Carmen collapsed in the final sequence and said, "I'm all out of breath." -
Carmen Miranda Dies
Retiring to bed early, she collapsed and died at two-thirty in the morning on August 5th 1955 at home at 46 years of age services were held in California . She died of a heart attack. -
Carmen Miranda Was Burried In Rio
Her body was shipped to Rio for final burial. Nearly one million people lined the streets to bid her a last farewell. Her costumes were donated to Brazil for a "Carmen Miranda Museum".Her burrial site was in São João Batista Cemetery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
