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  • Why was this banned in Brazil??

  • IRREPLACEABLE Carmen Miranda. You may like her, you may not, but please recognize the fact that she was and STILL IS unique. There is no one like her.

  • the first diva of seculo 21 wonderfull fantastic

  • I love how she says "No" at 2:14. Lol What a beautiful women, inside and out. I'm doing a research project on her. She was an absolutely amazing woman!! 

  • 20th Century-Fox had better Technicolor, wartime musicals than MGM but towards the end of the war that balance did shift over to MGM.

    Still, the color art direction in these films is absolutely fantastic by any standard and "The Gang's All Here" is certainly no exception.

  • Busby Berkeley had to have smoked some GOOD weed.

  • ...Did I see someone on River Street here in SC skating in one of these hats ???

  • EAT MORE BANANAS

  • Correct, more of a embodiment every day, bless Carmen and the ability to laugh!

  • @MrLProfeta Every morning she is better than my orange juice, now it's banana juice!

  • @MrLProfeta Bananas can be so creative in stage shows or cocktail lounges!

  • Really don't understand how people could dislike something like this! They must be very sad individuals!

  • she said "i feel so gay"? O.o

  • @AmandaPandoraMS well gay does still mean happy though that use has been more or less rendered obsolete

  • @AmandaPandoraMS the original meaning meant to be 'very happy'/

  • I guess Carmen Miranda is who started the stereotypes about Brazil...

    But she was an awesome singer!

  • I really like this song!!! It's all because my dad told me to look her up that I found this song!!! Great video!!!! Thanks!!! :)

  • I adore Carmen Miranda and here she's at her finest!

  • A BEAUTIFUL, TALENTED AND SIMPLY WONDERFUL LADY!

  • Carmen Miranda must have had some strong neck muscles to ware those head dresses. When you compare her and the actors and actresses of that time with the actors and actresses of today, It would appear Hollywood has lost it's soul.

  • LOVED this movie when I was little.

  • So full of life and good humor, even though she wanted to play more serious roles. There is a Carmen Miranda Museum in Rio that has some of her costumes and other memorabilia. In 1943 she was the highest paid woman in the world. There is one of her paychecks on display at the museum. She had a sister, Aurora Miranda, who was not as famous, but was cut out of the same cloth, and was also an actress.

  • you just blew my mind with this

  • could someone post up the lyrics?

  • She was from Portugal, my neighbor country. Bravo Portugal y Brasil!

  • 9 people weren't glad to see the lady in the Tutti-Frutti hat.


  • what a sterotype of Brazil...very north american! But Carmen is amazing!

  • all of these people are dead now.. damn..

  • This is so campy! :-)

  • Ester Williams, 

  • They use bananas way more than I expected. The Latin American influence shines through with this video. Miranda portrayed the image of Latin America/Brazil in such a way that it was almost impossible to think Latin America was anything other than a bunch of fruit and attractive women.

  • Carmen Miranda at her BEST.....:-)

    She was my star when i was a 6y\o kid and her song "QUANTO LA GUSTA" that

    drive me crazy !!!

  • I miss all the brazilian songs she used to sing...

  • i l ove her and this movie

  • What the heck happened to creativity In filmmaking?! I would Love to see someone make a movie like this, instead of the extremely boring and overly-done movies that you can predict every moment of that are out nowadays T.T

  • @chocolatfire you just put your finger on the problem...that's why I like classic films.

  • The meaning of this song changed so much, if it was sang today it would mean something completely different. at 02:45 she sings "the people say you dress so gay" LOL

  • @lopesmais You'll hear 'gay' in a lot of old movies--and of course it means to be 'very happy'--originally...was quite a favorite' in' word on H'wood 40's scripts.

  • Little point of trivia: "Americanos tell me that my "hat is high", because I am not take it off to kiss a guy" refers to the now outdated expression "She's too High-Hat for you" meaning she's stuck up or conceited like a Monopoly Game piece rich banker wearing a Top Hat. Probably lost on today's audiences.

    NOT lost, however, would be: "...but if I ever start to "take it off", Aye-Aye! I did that once for Johnny Smith and he was very happy with The Lady In the Tutti Frutti Hat!"

  • some people say I dress too gay but everyday I feel so gay and when I'm gay I dress this way-something wrong with that?

  • "Yes sur ree" says more about Carmen than anything else. Great line, magnificent artist, intelligent businessmen woman! xxxx

  • This is the cutest but nuttiest song scene I've ever seen.

  • I Brazilian and I need confess the this days, Brazilian music is a crap today..........

    Good times like that not return..........

    today brazilian people (not all, for luck) like soothing called funk, but is not American funk, is one shit created by criminals.........

    but I need to tell, she is one of our most prides in Brazil, great Woman.......

    like Pelé, Ayrton Senna and Santos Dummond

    PS: Santos Dummond is the TRUE creator of Airplane........just for explain......

  • Freudian B.S. It's good, clean fun, at least this time.

  • O que esse gringos tanto falam, hein!!!???

    Francisco

  • Brazil is not like that!! Brazil is not all bananas but it's true the part that we are happy and we like to dance......

  • @bghjkl3 yes. brazill is all bananas and America is all chicken wings. lol

  • a Pina colada to the eyes and ears!

  • How on EARTH did they manage to keep those monkeys to stay on cue? Oh, and the dancing is pretty good too!!! Carmen Miranda is the campest thing imaginable!

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  • @peselinger No problem - sorry I came off so crabby...I guess you can just pass my message on to your friend with the vivid imagination.

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  • @Pantages98382 Thanks for setting me straight! I'm really embarrassed about my post now. A person I thought was knowledgeable about this film told me that useless non-factoid. I can now disregard it and everything else that person told me.

  • @peselinger

    hate to tell you, but the picture was made by 20th Century Fox.

  • how did they get those monkeys to stand still in those palm trees???????????????

  • Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal and moved to Brazil ,when she was 10-months old, her father emigrated to Brazil and settled in Rio de Janeiro. Her mother followed in 1910, together with her daughters Olinda and Maria do Carmo.

    Maria do Carmo never returned to Portugal, but retained her Portuguese nationality. In Brazil, her parents had four more children - Amaro (1911), Cecília (1913), Aurora (1915 – 2005) and Óscar (1916).

  • As the great Dr. Johnson said, he who is tired of Carmen Miranda is tired of life.

  • What is she singing? I speak Portuguese and understand nothing of what she speaks. Put the translation into Portuguese or put the letter in English so I use Google Translator

  • after watching about 5 minutes i got sick of bananas

  • Don't stop HERE... rent the movie. It's a blast! It's a classic, and one of those all-time greats that everyone should see and not just for this and the other great musical numbers in it, but also for some of Hollywood's WORST acting. How that leading man (James Ellison) got the job must be one hellova' casting-couch story. Leading lady Alice Faye must have been cinema's only baritone, and Charlotte Greenwood could lift her legs straight out and over her head!

  • @LatrinaTwalay wasn't the lead guy John Payne? (Also a terrible actor!)

    I seem to remember Edward Everette Horton (the man that voiced a lot of cartoons like Fractured Fairytales, etc) in it and he acted badly as well.

    You're right, the bad acting makes the whole movie even more entertaining!

  • @malpaul did you see him in Miracle on 34th st? He was wonderful in it!!

  • I consider this entire film, not to forget this number, to be the most outrageous, hilarious and most magnificently over the top spectacle ever on film. The person mentioning the Technicolor vivid saturation is bang-on in their comment, alas; this is indeed the best show-off example of this color, and I miss the postcard vividness today. Of course, maybe it doesn't really matter. They don't know how to make them like this anymore. Pure & glorious madness, an absolute pleasure & a treasure.

  • It's just fabulous and I love Carmen.

  • Why was this banned in Brazil? Is it the imaginative use of the giant bananas?

  • I love Carmen Miranda !!

  • carmen miranda was awesome

    so sad she died so young (46 yrs old)

  • this is absolutely amazing and magical... and it still so good even in the graphic computation age!!! carmen was the 40`s Madonna!

  • @andrebomfim01 ~ What an INSULT to Carmen Miranda, mentioning her name in the same sentence with that publicity whore, Madonna.

  • I love Carmen Miranda !!!

  • ths is the first time ive ever seen her... ive only heard of her on show like when they say ....... who are you ? carmen miranda....... if they r wearing a frutti hat.

  • behold where Gondry stole his tricks and M.I.A. her looks!!!

  • que produção grande, mas o sotaque dela aki tá muito forte heheh

  • Made me smile - I love it

  • Yeah, I'm sure everyone took this really seriously back then...

  • R.I.P Carmen Miranda her warmth bounces off the screen! a true talent.

  • @ 5:50, also earlier, an effect of plucking the guitar strings on the other side of the bridge - VERY John Cage-type avant-garde, I don't even think any classical composers had done that at this time, the first I know of is Allan Pettersson (sp?) in the '50s.

  • And here you are posting a comment beneath a video of her...

  • Lindissimo, Ousado e inocente ao mesmo tempo!!!

    Só a Carmem! Amo demais

  • É... às vezes, a banana é apenas uma banana... adoro duplos sentidos... hahaha!

    E amo Carmen incondicionalmente! Eita mulher incrível, esta!

    :)

  • Phallic??? Excuse me but I don't see the innuendo here. I think that innuendo sometimes is more sought after than really implicit. It doesn't look phallic for me. If they had been men maybe.

  • Freud said "what does a woman want"? LOL

    Maybe more relevantly, what did choreographer Busby Berkeley want? But I get your point, it could have been coconuts or oranges and it would still be freaky. I think the general insanity is the main thing.

  • After seeing this choreography I realized I know nothing about the world I live in.

  • she feels gay lol

  • Sometimes a banana is just a banana, and other times, well . . . , it is Busby Burkeley.

  • Marvelous when I die I hope I wake up in one of these movies

  • If I believed in a god, I would want it to look like Carman Miranda; full of joy, beauty, music and humor. She's the embodiment of LIFE. I think she embraces the stereotype and transcends it; her spirit  is inspiring, even fifty years after her death. Read her wiki biography, she worked in a hat shop as a girl, how great is that? She's almost like a hindu goddess, her outfits seem to be made out of Christmas decorations. Check out chica chica boom chic video on youtube, its amazing.

  • @patricklehman

    I believe she had a very sad end. She was not a Brazilian, according with her biography. To me she was a great human being.

  • @KAIROA she was born in portugal but moved to brasil as a young child so she considered herself brazilian.

  • it must have sucked so much ass to live back in those days hahaha

  • Yessirree (WOW)! 1:57

  • Absolutely brilliant. I want a tutti fruity hat and a banana xylophone.

  • Sublime!!!!!!!!

  • Hip Hop Banana Boat Bip Bop!

  • I wonder if it is still banned in Brazil these days...

  • No, it's not!! LOL

    The movie was shown on TV more than a 1000 times by now...

  • "cause when am gay , i feel sooo gay! " hahaha

    my feelings exactly!

  • --'''''

  • It must be cool to be able to feel that happy and dress that way!

  • you do it and tell me what it feels

  • cool, i wonder what the bananas are made out of though...

  • I used to think they were fiberglass, but given the materials available at the time, my guess is that they're a wire frame with a canvas/paint or wire mesh/papier mache covering stretched over them. Whatever it was, they had to be relatively lightweight...

  • Why was it banned in Brazil? There's nothing wrong with it!

  • Because it is a misreprecentation of Brazil and also they (Brazil) felt that Carmen Miranda became too Americanized...

  • What did the Brazilians find offensive? Did they really think this number would make foreigners think Brazil is a land of giant bananas?

  • Yes, they thought it was a mockery

  • Yes.. ...its a land of GIANT bananas if you know waht I mean...imol

  • yeah, i think i know. (king kong)

  • Loved IT!!!! lol

  • She sounds different in Portuguese. I mean, of course obviously she does since she has an accent in english, but in portuguese it's more nasal, stretched, y-ful.

  • That's because Brazilian Portuguese is more nasal in it's pronunciation, particularly on certain sounds.

  • Carmen eterna! A Pequena Notável ARREBENTA!

    Carmen forever! The Brazilian Bombshell ROCKS!

    Greetings from Brazil!

  • Did anyone notice the primary fruit shown in this film was not in lyrics of this number (banana that is)?

  • Carmen would have been 100 years old yesterday 2/9! she's still a stitch...

  • I love her, she is amazing!

  • "gay"

  • LOVE it!! Carmen is perfect and ol' Busby never fails to deliver the goods!

  • Wow those bananas could feed you for a year; while also keeping the draft out from under the door.

  • Wow. That was an excessive amount of fruit. HAHAHA! Ms. Carmen certainly had a style all her own...

  • funny, i dont wear hats like that and I always feel sooo gay! yeepeeee!

  • Organ Grinders and giant bananas!

  • Marvelous! And it just gets better and better each time I watch it. Wonderful

  • freud played a huge role in 1940's movies, apparently...

  • Carmen was fabulous! The way she created a new tecnicolor culture was amazing!

    She made the same thing as Amy Winehouse (in a diferent way, XD LOL)

  • This clip is what I would deem as a piece of movie history. The colour is incredible for 1943 and it is a symbol of uniqueness of film, especially for that era. It is so hard to believe that this is from 1943 because WWII was happening at that time. What a great video.

  • Techicolour is what this film was processed in. Techicolour has a higher colour saturation then most films did untill the 80's. Tecnhicolour is really more vivid then what most colour is in real life.

  • The lase Techincolor film in the USA was THE GODFATHER.

  • Why was it banned?

  • at 3:44 it will all become clear

  • Watch closely ay 3:43 and all will be clear.

  • I really don't understand, all I see are women dancing with bananas. I don't understand why a movie would get banned because of women dancing with bananas, somebody please explain this to me.

  • It was too phallic looking for the sensibilities of the Brazilian citizens at the time.

  • Well, it was not only the phallic aspect of the bananas that led censorship to prohibit "The Gang's All Here" in Brazil. Narrow-minded authorities believed the movie depicted a depreciative portrait of the country, shown as a "banana republic", similar to smaller nations of Central America. In that time, Brazil was anxious to be recognized as a giant developing country and most Carmen Miranda's detractors thought her roles in Hollywood movies derided such ambition.

  • Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.

  • Dsbatista you describe that well yet you question why a people would be reluctant to be chatacterized as a buch of dancing phallic wearing charicitures? These are among the few representations of Latin America at the time and this became how people saw Brazilian culture. In fact, the highly sexed latino is still a stereotype that persist largely due to these images.

  • I doubt Carmen Miranda will have any affect on popular culture today. It's over 50 years since she died, and although there was a risque element to her performances, it was very tame by modern standards.

  • If you look at the era that this and other carmen miranda things were popular, you'll notice there was a BIG event happening that occupied a lot of people's minds. They wanted to see something this happy and surreal in order to get away from a frightening time.

  • What an Angel!!!

  • LoL No daaarling Carmen was all about joy, happiness & sweetness & an extraordinary artist with a natural and real talent that is a total rarity in this age of madonnas & other cold hearted beasts

  • To a certain extant, that is true. United Fruit was our "good neighbor policy" with Latin America, which prevented the formation of unions and all that nasty vicious stuff that America is famous for. Nevertheless, Carmen Miranda was a marvelous performer and truly a phenomenon, given that she still fascinates and mesmerizes us.

  • Work Dem Heels Mama!!--She Was Pure Fiyah!!

    A true pioneer for latinas and for introducing arrogant insular american whites to some semblance of latin culture at a time when they didn't know a mexican, from a cuban, from a brazilian, from a puerto rican!!

    Great strides Have Been Made Since Her Time,

    But Their Is Still So Much More To Do!!

    RIP Carmen Miranda, Celia Cruz, La Lupe!!

  • Absolutely priceless! Wonderful stuff!

  • Inigualável, maravilhosa, BRASILEIRA, esta é Carmen Miranda, a maior estrela em Hollywood por muitos anos...

    Saudades...

  • Beautiful Carmen @ USA's monstrous Hollywood propaganda machine (peeled and eaten like a banana)

  • Now that's what I call a Banana Republic! : ) What a hoot

  • The Gang's All Here is a 1943 Technicolor musical film produced and released by Twentieth Century Fox. Its stars included Alice Faye, James Ellison, Edward Everett Horton, Charlotte Greenwood, Eugene Pallette, Benny Goodman, and, in one of her most memorable roles, Carmen Miranda. It was directed by one of the era's most creative visual pioneers Busby Berkeley.

  • For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Carmen Miranda has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6262 Hollywood Boulevard.

  • Carmen's enormous, fruit-laden hats are iconic visual recognized around the world. These costumes lead to Saks Fifth Avenue developing a line of turbans and jewelry inspired by Carmen Miranda in 1939.

    Visitors to Rio de Janeiro can find a museum dedicated to Carmen Miranda in the Flamengo neighborhood on Avenida Rui Barbosa. The museum includes several original costumes, and shows clips from her filmography.

  • was it banned because it was racist and reflected badly on Brazilian society?

  • Simply sumptuous. Busby put the buzz in choreographica fantastica.

    As for why it got banned in Brazil,

    maybe it is because of 4:40 - 5:00...

    "Tutti frutti, all rutti

    A-whop-bop-a-loo-bop a-whop-bam-boom!"

  • I loved "The Brazilian Bombshell"..she was so colorfull and full of energy!! She just makes me laugh!

  • Saudades ...Carmem Miranda...

    Perdemos uma grande estrela... :(

  • too bad the colors are bleeding. a good print shows the crayola colors, which add to the joy and innocence of this film.

  • I love Carmen Miranda. She's my all-time favorite Latina star. The best. She was so great and talented.

  • Oh, I just realized that the movie "Myra Breckenridge" did an homage to this number almost thirty years later. It was a scene in the movie in which the legendary Mae West is performing.

  • Blows my mind to think of what these production numbers would cost today, YIKES!!!

  • very creative and entertaining.