"Some people I dress too gay, but every day I feel so gay, and when I'm gay, I dress that way. Is something wrong with that?" LMAO. Classic.

I was under ten years of age when I fell in love with Carmen Miranda, 70 years ago. It was at The Grand Palace cinema in my home town in England. At last, when I was In Brazil after a Christmas cruise (2017) I was reintroduced to her by Wilson a Brazilian. He helped me to find her again. Thank you Wilson.

The camera crew are the unsung heroes of this scene. Absolutely brilliant

Visually its beautiful without computers or blue screens. That is what a real color movie is all about.

Back when TALENT was indispensable in the entertainment industry. A true classic Hollywood moment.

I am russian man , I Love it !!! Carmen , i love , remember , and miss you !!!

Always loved seeing Carmen Miranda! Fabulous star and talent.💃❤️💯

I am simply amazed by the cinematography.

This brings back my childhood years ... oh my gosh! ❤❤❤😂 Carmen Miranda was my very first love of Brasilian music and American theater music. ❤❤❤ I will never ever forget her charming and colorful singing and dancing. 💃😇💖💝

This is so fun! It is goofy, super fun, sweet, and sexy in the most surreal yet innocent way. I cannot imagine how long they had to work to get everything so perfectly coordinated. It is just great fun. And Carmen Miranda us just the best!! So talented, so lovely

Her voice is so amazing.

She was very versatile. She's kind of like Judy Garland in that way, singing dancing acting, playing different roles. She had so much potential besides your pan-Latina image. Carmen could dance and move and speak in a way that nobody in the States had seen before even in Brazil her band mates in Bando da Lua said she could speak and make up nonsense words, like American Jazz scatting. A decent singer, I'm always impressed by her vocal range too. I love her. Even if she was stereotyped, I adore her as if she comes from a culture of her own invention. Ay Ay Ay I like her, VERY much lol

Whenever i feel down i watch Carmen ,she picks up my spirits,love her cheerie persona in character,what a gal !!! and this number is so classic ---Fabulous Busby Berkley imagination of ...Way BIG musicals ......mmmmm !! Strawberry-Banana combo cant be beat !

Carmen Miranda canta com inglês cheio de sotaque "latino" de propósito, faz parte da personagem que ela magistralmente criou não só para o Brasil mas para o mundo. Sinceramente, não vi até hoje nenhuma artista brasileira tão multimídia como ela. Olhares, mil expressões do rosto, voz, dança, figurino, cenário. Parece que Carmen é uma comissão de frente e o carro abre-alas de uma escola de samba. Será que o carnaval carioca teria se inspirado nela em suas fantasias e na organização das alas? A maior artista pop brasileira sem dúvida insuperável até hoje. E não é nenhuma ofensa dizer que ela é brasileira, mesmo tendo nascido em portugal porque tudo que ela canta, dança e seu figurino são da cultura brasileira. Agradeço aos irmãos portugueses por ter nos enviado tão lindo talento. Sem a cultura brasileira não existiria Carmen Miranda e vice-versa rs ... Que interessante: Carmen Miranda e Luis Gonzaga dois grandes artistas que influenciaram a cultura brasileira contemporânea, migrantes. Ela de portugal para o Rio, do Rio para os EUA. Ele, de Pernambuco para o Rio.

Everything about this is simply amazing. So much joy and imagination

Oh Carmen, you are wonderful. The whole thing just makes you smile. They sure knew how to dazzle and entertain us back then! Love it!

you cant help but smile when you watch this

The first pop star ever!

"Não é certo nem verdadeiro, que eu tenha afirmado nos Estados Unidos a minha nacionalidade, sou brasileira, porque aqui me encontro desde a idade de um ano; e nesta terra me eduquei e fiz minha carreira artística. É ao povo brasileiro - aos meus patrícios - que devo todo este incentivo, todo este aplauso, todas estas homenagens. E não ha, sequer, uma entrevista minha, em qualquer órgão de imprensa, em que não tivesse sempre reafirmado, categoricamente, este meu amor, este meu meu carinho, esta minha admiração pelo Brasil." _Carmen Miranda_

the first diva ever!!!

Carmen Miranda + Busby Berkeley = Pure genius

How can anyone not like this? It is wonderfully zany and from a more innocent time when a giant banana was just a giant banana!

New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther said the Freudian implications of this sequence were inescapable.

GRANDIOSA CARMEN MIRANDA

Caramba, quanta gente brigando pela origem dela. Se portugal tivesse algum significado maior pra ela, ela cantaria que tava com saudade de Lisboa.. ela tinha era saudade da bahia. rsrs

¡Que despliegue,cuanto trabajp y cuanto talento del coreografo,los decoradores,las bailarinas y por supuesto,Carmen!. Hermoso y espectacular video. ME ENCANTO.

Technicolor is a superior color process, even in '43. Color was 'stepped up a notch' even exaggerated. They've been toying around with color in movies since the silent days.

The musical that is high in vitamins, fiber and potassium; low in calories. Brought to you by Dole, Contadina and Del Monte Productions in association with General Mills Breakfast Cereals. Can't have one without the other.

Pure art.

I wanted to see a biopic of her... I'm a young brazilian but I like her. I love your history. Is amazing your talent and carism... She's the lady with the hat of fruit, leading Brazil to the joy of the world, but she was not Brazilian, she had a piece of every place of the world on his little body.

I love Brazil !

Portugal se diz orgulhoso da "filha portuguesa", mas os correios de lá, nunca emitiram um selo comemorativo sequer, para homenageá-la, já o Brasil, emitiu vários selos e carimbos comemorativos a Pequena Notável. Recentemente, os correios dos Estados Unidos, a homenageou, em uma série de cantores de renomes.

Love her!

Suddenly I really feel like a smoothie

RIP Goddess!

How extraordinary! Thank you

The painted hat in the end was gorgeous

The Greatest Musical of it's time.

The amount of effort for this shot is amazing!

She was the most fabulous actress of the 20th century!

Brazil!!! Carmen Miranda, luso-brasileira maravilhosa; quande orgulho para o meu país, o Brasil.

I'd say she many things to many people! I wish people wouldn't get so possessive of her and "her country!!" Her personal journey took her from Portugal, to Brazil, then to the USA... She's got an amazing life story! She belongs to the world! We all love her!

magnificent and unequalled!

"I'm Chiquita banana and I've come to say - Bananas have to ripen in a certain way - When they are fleck'd with brown and have a golden hue - Bananas taste the best and are best for you - You can put them in a salad - You can put them in a pie-aye - Any way you want to eat them - It's impossible to beat them - But, bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator - So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator."

It is gorgeous watch Carmen Miranda. She and her music are wonderful!

Beautiful!

This is the perfect video to watch while high on the couch in a soft blanket.

😍😘

Miranda... apesar de ser jovem .. amo suas musicas! pois pra musica boa nao existe idade!

The entire seven minutes is worth it for that final pullback at 6:59.

love it!!!

The late singer dancer musician Prince at times mimicked her spot-on.

It WAS GORGEOUS!!!!!

when she said gay she meant HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know what my dreams will be filled with tonight....BANANAS! Carmen, you were AMAZING.

They _definitely_ don't make movies like this anymore. They should though, this is fun!

Priceless!

Thanks for the fun memories, Jay.

Just awesome!

This is so random... I love it!!!

"But why are you gay?" "It's the hat."

6:06 I feel like if this was sampled and put into a modern song it would be so cool

I like Carmen! Fantastic LADY-singer!

Carmen Miranda 💖🇧🇷

Will always love this broad!!!

esperando alguém no BR superá-la zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

this is so awesome!

from the time when Brazil was a tropical paradise...🌞🍉🍌🍓🍊🎊🐒

The opening orchestration is pure Stravinsky 'Petrushka' to be exact . How clever!

2:10 me when people tell me to stop being extra. :-P

essa é a portuguesa...mais brasileira que já vi..... maravilhosa... ....seu talendo incontestável...única... happy b day...onde quer q vc esteja

True to that! You are so right. I've not live as long as most but I have seen things come and go only to return with a vengeance. It just sucks that not everyone appreciates it the 1st time around.

Incrível, que lindo 😍❤

Outstanding arranger

Carmen Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha on February 9, 1909, near Porto, Portugal, in the town of Marco de Canavezes. Not long after her birth her family moved to Brazil, where her father was involved in the produce business. The family settled in the then-capital city of Rio de Janeiro. After leaving school, Carmen got a job at a local store, and often began singing on the job. Before long she was discovered and got a singing job on a local radio station. She ultimately got a recording contract with RCA. By 1928 she was a genuine superstar in Brazil. As with other popular singers of the era, she eventually made her way into the film world. She made her debut in the Brazilian documentary A Voz do Carnaval (1933). Two years later she appeared in her first feature film, Alô, Alô, Brasil (1935). However. it was Estudantes (1935) that seemed to solidify Carmen in the minds of the Brazilian movie audiences. Now they realized she could act as well as sing. Although there was three years between "Alo, Alo Carnaval" and Banana-da-Terra (1939), Carmen continued to churn out musical hits in Brazil. The latter film would be the last in her home country. In late 1939 Carmen arrived, with much fanfare in the press, in New York City. She was now ready to capture Americans' hearts with her talent. She appeared in some musical revues on Broadway and, just as everyone thought, was a huge hit. In 1940 Carmen was signed to appear in the Twentieth Century-Fox production Serenata argentina (1940), with Betty Grable and Don Ameche. The only complaint that critics had was the fact that Carmen was not on the screen enough. In 1941 she was, again, teamed with Ameche in addition to Alice Faye in That Night in Rio (1941). The film was extremely popular with the theater patrons. Her unique songs went a long way in making her popular. It was after A La Habana me voy (1941) that American cartoon artists began to cash in on Carmen's ever-growing popularity. In the 1930s and 1940s cartoons were sometimes shown as a prelude to whatever feature film was showing. Sure enough, the cartoon version of Carmen came wriggling across the screen, complete with her trademark fruit hat and wide, toothy grin. In 1942 Carmen starred in Secretaria brasileña (1942) with Betty Grable and Cesar Romero, both of whom she had worked with before. It was shortly after this that America began adopting her style of dress as the latest fad. 1944 saw her in three films: Something for the Boys (1944), Four Jills in a Jeep (1944) and Greenwich Village (1944). The first two did well at the box-office, but the last one left a lot to be desired. It was her last busy year in film. Carmen made one film each in 1945, '46, '47 and '48. After that she didn't make a film for two years, until Nancy va a Rio (1950), a production for MGM. Once again didn't make a film for several years, returning with Una herencia de miedo (1953). She did stay busy, singing on the nightclub circuit and appearing on the relatively new medium of television. However, "Scared Stiff" was her final performance on the silver screen. On August 4, 1955, she suffered a heart attack, although she didn't realize it at the time, during a live broadcast of The Jimmy Durante Show (1954). She went home after attending a party (she neither drank or smoked). Early the next morning, on August 5, Carmen suffered a fatal heart attack. She was just 46 years old. Her body was flown to her adopted country of Brazil, where her death was declared a period of national mourning.

My day is complete 😄

And not one lady slipped on a peel!

Brazil

La hermana de Carmen Miranda participó en la película los tres caballeros aurora Miranda #CarmenMiranda #AuroraMiranda

I am so glad my ex had kids to women with the actress Carmen Miranda name. I'm glad you're stuck and I would rather be over here able to move anywhere in the world. So yep I definitely stay where I am...no strangers to deal with🤣🤣🤣

LOVE IT...!!!!!!

Love it!!! Could have been a Bette Middler video!!!

Que coisa Linda.

Carmen Miranda Brasileirissíma!!! I LOVE BRAZIL!!!

Que boa sensação.... Incrível!

1.2m views and just 7.5k likes. Either same people are watching over and over or this is so dazzling people forget to like

Adorei o vídeo! A criatividade musical e dos espetáculos daquela época foram com certeza incomparáveis! A sequência das dançarinas com as bananas gigantes é esplendorosa!!! Mas deixando um pouco a visão artística de lado, fico pensando "Será que era assim mesmo que os americanos nos imaginavam (ou imaginam) naquela época?!?!?!" Porque eu nunca vi um macaco se não os saguis (que são como os esquilos que aparecem em lugares isolados por lá).

Thank you!

The greatest artist born on Brazil . Yes,Carmem was BRAZILIAN .

one of the first latinos in hollywood

Have you looked into our past, to the War--sixty years ago? Have you asked questions? Have you paid attention at any level? Are you new to this? Well, they had great fun, in elegant spaces, with fantastic bands, great shows, and absolutely no critical examination of the outside world. And we've only improved on the system; it asks fewer questions, and queries fewer answers.

Inesquecível Carmen Miranda - a Grande Artista Portuguesa k o Brasil adoptou!

Well said !

Just how camp was that!?!

Wish I had a 6 foot banana to call my own. Honestly, watching this is like taking a happy pill.

You can have one of your very own. Amazon.com has 4 or 5 different "Carmen Miranda" hats. There's one that's really tall ending at the top with a big plume; it looks the most authentic of all of them. The next time I go to a costume party, I'm going as Carmen!

I so wish I was high watching this, the giant bananas bit had me in tears!

Isso que é fazer trabalho em grupo para fazer um vídeo. Tudo bem organizado e na sincronia

7:09 Lua Cheia De Amor

Candy Carmen