On February 9, 1909, future Hollywood star Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal. Her family soon relocated to Brazil, where Carmen became a young singing sensation. In the early 1940s she broke into ...

The New York Times and the [UK] Guardian both published articles commemorating the 60th anniversary of Carmen Miranda's (1909-55) death on August 5. Although her indelible Hollywood image is one of ...

Relations between the U.S. and Brazil are strained by conflicting alliances in the Ukraine war. Decades ago, a Disney cartoon parrot and Carmen Miranda once played a part in U.S.-Brazilian diplomacy.

Known for her outrageous costumes and beautiful voice, Brazilian performer Carmen Miranda was the highest-earning woman in Hollywood in the 1940s. In the signature number in the 1943 extravaganza The ...

Carmen Miranda - Entre Divãs E Balangandãs narrates a cut in Carmen Miranda's life, when, already consecrated as one of the main Brazilian personalities in the United States, she returned for a show ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Long before supermodel Gisele Bundchen exploded onto the fashion world, the original Brazilian bombshell had already detonated: Carmen Miranda. Now, on the 50th anniversary of her ...

Google Doodle to mark what would have been the 108th birthday of Carmen Miranda, designed by Sophie Diao Decked in a “fruit hat” inspired by the baianas—the Afro-Brazilian fruit vendors she grew up ...

President Biden and his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, are expected to meet face to face next week for the first time. Their meeting at LA Summit of the Americas is framed against rising ...