Carmen Miranda

From the moment The Gang's All Here opens with a nightclub production number presented on a stage as big as a football field, Busby Berkeley's fast-paced Technicolor musical delivers the goods. There is dreamy-eyed Alice Faye, handsome eye-candy James Ellison,…

8½ with Marcello Mastroianni: Federico Fellini classic stars his alter ego. In conjunction with its exhibition “Fellini's Book of Dreams” – which is definitely worth a visit – the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a special…

Carmen Miranda – known as the “Brazilian Bombshell” in the U.S.; as A Pequena Notável (either “The Notable Gal” or “The Notable Little One”) in Brazil – would have turned 100 today. In the clip above, the Portuguese-born, (as Maria…

Busby Berkeley musical The Gang's All Here with Carmen Miranda. “Sex and the Single Girl: The Escapades of Busby Berkeley” is a mini-retrospective currently being presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood. Busby…

Aurora Miranda. Carmen Miranda's sister had a long and successful career as a recording artist, but Aurora Miranda was seen in only a handful of films in both Brazil and the United States. Her most memorable big-screen roles were as…

Carmen Miranda costume: the so-called “Brazilian Bombshell” in typical churchgoing garb of the period – subdued colors and only the most modest of accoutrements. The “Carmen Miranda Forever” exhibition at Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art will be showcasing…

Brazilian cinema at MoMA Brazilian cinema will return to New York City's Museum of Modern Art in July. MoMA will be presenting the third edition of “Premiere Brazil!” between July 1–10. (Image: Ludmila Dayer Diary of a Provincial Girl.) This…