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Carmen Miranda Cookie Jar - $75 (Emmett)
toms cabin rd near w. s. slope rd
condition:
excellent
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2-9-09 to 8-5-55
Years active 1926–1955
She was in the movies with Betty Grabel, John Wayne, Abbott and Costello, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis just to name a few.
In 1939, Broadway producer Lee Shubert offered Miranda an eight-week contract to perform in The Streets of Paris after seeing her at Cassino da Urca in Rio de Janeiro.[6] The following year she made her first Hollywood film, Down Argentine Way with Don Ameche and Betty Grable, and her exotic clothing and Brazilian Portuguese accent became her trademark.[7] That year, she was voted the third-most-popular personality in the United States; she and her group, Bando da Lua, were invited to sing and dance for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[8] In 1943, Miranda starred in Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here, which featured musical numbers with the fruit hats that became her trademark. By 1945, she was the highest-paid woman in the United States