Carmen Miranda filmography
Title Year Role Director Co-stars
A Esposa do Solteiro 1926 Carlo Campogalliani
Barro Humano 1929 Adhemar Gonzaga Lilita Rosa Carlos Modesto Eva Schnoor
Degraus da Vida 1930 Lourival Agra Carlos Eduardo Elly Rene Sérgio Soroa
O Carnaval Cantado de 1932 1932 Herself Vital Ramos de Castro
A Voz do Carnaval 1933 Herself Adhemar Gonzaga
Hello , Hello Brazil ! 1935 Herself Wallace Downey Adhemar Gonzaga Ary Barroso Aurora Miranda Dircinha Batista
Estudantes 1935 Mimi Wallace Downey Barbosa Júnior Mesquitinha Mário Reis
Hello , Hello , Carnival ! 1936 Herself Adhemar Gonzaga Francisco Alves Mário Reis Aurora Miranda
Banana da Terra 1939 Herself Ruy Costa Aloysio de Oliveira Dircinha Batista Oscarito
Laranja da China 1940 Herself Ruy Costa Dircinha Batista Arnaldo Amaral
Down Argentine Way 1940 Herself Irving Cummings Don Ameche Betty Grable
That Night in Rio 1941 Carmen Irving Cummings Alice Faye Don Ameche
Week-End in Havana 1941 Rosita Rivas Walter Lang Alice Faye John Payne Cesar Romero
Springtime in the Rockies 1942 Rosita Murphy Irving Cummings Betty Grable John Payne Cesar Romero
The Gang 's All Here 1943 Dorita Busby Berkeley Alice Faye Phil Baker Sheila Ryan
Four Jills in a Jeep 1944 Herself William A. Seiter Kay Francis Carole Landis Martha Raye Mitzi Mayfair
Greenwich Village 1944 Princess Querida O'Toole Walter Lang Don Ameche Vivian Blaine William Bendix
Something for the Boys 1944 Chiquita Hart Lewis Seiler Vivian Blaine Michael O'Shea Phil Silvers
Doll Face 1945 Chita Chula Lewis Seiler Vivian Blaine Dennis O'Keefe Perry Como
If I 'm Lucky 1946 Michelle O'Toole Lewis Seiler Vivian Blaine Perry Como Phil Silvers Harry James
Credits -- Film appearances
This is a complete filmography of Carmen Miranda, a Portuguese-Brazilian singer, actress, and dancer. By the mid-1930s, Carmen Miranda had become the most popular female singer in Brazil, and one of the nation's first film stars. In her lifetime she had appeared in six Brazilian films and fourteen US productions. Sadly, the only glimpses that today's audiences can have of her Brazilian screen performances are in the recently restored Alô, Alô, Carnaval (1936) and a tantalisingly brief clip from Banana da Terra (1939), in which she first wore on screen what would become her iconic baiana costume and extravagant turban. In 1939 she became a star on Broadway, at the invitation of US show business impresario, Lee Shubert, and just two years later was under contract with the 20th Century-Fox studios in Hollywood. Her most memorable performances are in the musical numbers of films such as Down Argentine Way (1940), Week-End in Havana (1941), That Night in Rio (1941) and The Gang's All Here (1943). After World War II, Miranda's films at 20th Century Fox were made in black-and-white indicating her waning status at the studio. In 1946, she bought out her Fox contract for $75,000, she made the decision to pursue her acting career free of the constraints of the studios. In 1947, she starred an independent production for United Artists, Copacabana alongside Groucho Marx, with limited success. She was the first Latin American to inscribe her name, handprints and footprints on the Walk of Fame outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on 24 March 1941, and in 1944 she became the highest-paid woman in United States. On August 4, 1955, Miranda filmed a number for The Jimmy Durante Show, during which she complained of being out of breath. In the early hours of the following morning, she died of a heart attack in the dressing room of her Beverly Hills mansion, collapsing to the floor, her hand still clutching a mirror.