ILLUSTRATIONS

Carmen Miranda as a baiana in her last Brazilian film, Banana da terra (1939)

Araci Cortes dressed to perform as a baiana (undated photograph)

Carmen Miranda and Aurora Miranda in Alô, alô, carnaval! (1936)

Carmen in brownface with her singing and dancing partner Almirante at the Odeon theater, São Paulo (February 1939)

Carmen Miranda on the cover of CLICK (November 1939)

Publicity still for The Streets of Paris. Carmen Miranda and her band, Bando da Lua (Summer 1939)

Carmen Miranda drinking coffee with the winner of the coffee-making contest at the New York World’s Fair (August 31, 1939)

Carmen Miranda and her shadow, Helen Magna, in Sons O’ Fun at the Winter Garden Theatre (December 1941)

Carmen Miranda with her lighthouse headdress in a Production Code photograph for Doll Face (1945)

Carmen and Aurora Miranda arrive at the Biltmore Hotel for the Thirteenth Academy Awards ceremony (February 27, 1941)

A young Mexican American boy dresses as Carmen Miranda in Los Angeles in the mid-1940s

Carmen Miranda’s candy-cane costume in a photo still for Greenwich Village (1944)

Carmen Miranda wearing Yvonne Wood’s exquisite creation for her final number of Greenwich Village (1944)

Carmen Miranda in her oxen-driven cart surrounded by her band in The Gang’s All Here (1943)

Imogene Coca as Carmen Miranda in a publicity still for The Straw Hat Revue (circa October 1939)

Carmen Miranda gives the camera her mischievous wink with Mickey Rooney on the set of Babes on Broadway (1941)

Bob Hope in his Carmen Miranda “disguise” with Bing Crosby in Road to Rio (1947)

Carol Burnett in Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)