RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Carmen Miranda became Brazil's biggest international film star in the 1940s, the success abroad of the "Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat" was matched only by the rejection she ...

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 ...

With direction by Kleber Montanheiro, the musical tells the story of Carmen Miranda, the Brazilian Bombshell, from her arrival in Brazil as a child, through radio, her first recordings, Brazilian ...

CARMEN MIRANDA: ENTRE DIVAS E BALANGANDAS, Renata Ricci's First Monologue, Opens in Sao Paulo By Claudio Erlichman. Production is in short season only this weekend from February 24th to 26th.

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.