CARMEN MIRANDA - AT HOME

Carmen Miranda opens her mansion to reporter Erskine Johnson & cameraman Coy Watson for their "Hollywwod Reel" show (the first TV program ever on Hollywood celebrities private life) to let everyone know what she is like when not singing & dancing - she's just the same gracious and flavored well-known lady from Brazil. Without the fruits on her head she instead shows up in a bathing suit she designed on her own - a dare-to-wear bikini. Too daring for a 1950 bathing style to be shown on TV.

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• Carmen
• Miranda
• Hollywood
• Samba
• Brazil

[cboncklis]

The best thing that could've happened to Carmen was that she would've never moved to the U.S. The American public wanted her to be the fruit wearing singer/dancer from Brazil only. I just watched a very good 2 hours documentary of her life and it broke my heart that she was just another victim of the old Hollywood system of the Golden years. They gave us great movies, but there was a price to pay for it and these artists paid dearly with their lives in certain cases. It basically killed her.

[DoniSacramento]

That is right, but also controversial. Many artists just don't die of work. Carmen Miranda was born to be an entertainer. There was a lot of irresponsibility and lack of awareness at Carmen's time and around her. From her doctor, from her husband, from her friends and from her family. Little did they know of the hazardous impact in health of the regular intake of drugs to help people get awake and asleep to then be able to accomplish lots of commitments. The intakes were Carmen's only addiction.

[jjisola]

Correctly stated DoniSacramento - those are your personal opinions. By and large, she belongs to the world with or without your bidding distrainment of cinematography. Carmen Miranda is as she was in history, but her story is an ever prevailing tale of destiny. This fact alone will only someday bring her back onto the big screen not as some may expertly know her, but as the world sees her “The Brazilian Bomb Shell!”

[DoniSacramento]

MY bidding distrainment? What a statutorily serious talk! Had no idea it would reach that much. Okay, I know people just don't get enough out of what's been photographed, recorded, printed and said on a celebrity while they are alive. There's also a need for their bio reenactment. Personally saying again, if they ever run Carmen's 1940's movies on the big screen, I have a hunch it will be enough for people to realize why she was ever called "The Brazilian Bombshell". It was nice talking to you.

[jjisola]

I am ready for a full length movie about Carmen Miranda's life. Focusing on her larger than life persona that changed American Pop Culture. Please, someone with the contacts alert the powers that be and get this film rolling.

[DoniSacramento]

Personally, I am against any production casting an actress to perform/revive Carmen Miranda's bio. I don't think any actress would properly do for Carmen was unique like many other great stars. Besides, directors nowadays tend to include "imaginary facts" into their films to spice up the story and turn it into a blockbu$ter. I am highly satisfied with Helena Solberg's "Bananas is My Business" documentary, using real footage and based on facts. That's what I recommend those willing to know her.

[nagone11]

@LadyTwentySeven , eu gosto que voce diz sobre ela. Os gringos adoravam ela, e eu tambem!

[SatchmoSings]

Miranda was a sparkling entertainer of very many legitimate talents who never took herself seriously but she did take what she DID seriously with tremendous hard work and dedication; she certainly was no diva.

She was quite popular with not only her co-stars and the other folks who were also in the "credit rolls" she was also popular and well-liked by just about everyone she worked with on the lot such as grips and lighting technicians; there was very little, if any "side" to her at all.

[DAngelo136]

100 years after her birth, 56 years after her death; an international cultural icon. A biopic would be appropriate at this time. Either in Brazil or Hollywood. Most of her contemporaries from that time are gone and it's time for her to be rediscovered and appreciated for the artist that she was. For what it's worth, it has to be interpreted by writers and actresses which may not be to your liking but, that's the way it is. Her story should be told , she was bigger than life and a legend.

[vaivesetounaesquina]

@LadyTwentySeven

0:50 TÁ BOM, NÉ!

Tá ótimo!

[jovesheerwater]

Good God.

[LadyTwentySeven]

Caro DoniSacramento, concordo com o que você disse sobre fazer um filme da vida de Carmen Miranda. Amei "Bananas Is My Business". E o que você falou sobre a Carmen se aplica também a Rita Hayworth. Até hoje, eu não gostei da atuação de nenhuma atriz que a interpretou (incluindo Linda Carter, de quem sou fã desde pequena). A melhor interpretação de Rita Hayworth que eu já vi continua sendo a do Pica-Pau no desenho The Woody Woodpecker Polka. Ele sim pegou o espírito da coisa! RSRS

[500victo]

ela representa a mulher brazileira unesquecivel dona carme