# Carmen Miranda filmography

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. 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.
Carmen Miranda became a Latin American icon and two of the films in which she appeared—Down Argentine Way and The Gang's All Here—have been added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry.

## Credits
### Film appearances

List of acting credits in film, with directors and principal cast members :
| Title | Year | Role | Director | Co-stars | Notes |
| A Esposa do Solteiro | 1926 | | Carlo Campogalliani | | Uncredited |
| Barro Humano | 1929 | | Adhemar Gonzaga | Lilita Rosa Carlos Modesto Eva Schnoor | There is a possibility that Carmen Miranda had appeared as an extra in a scene. |
| Degraus da Vida | 1930 | | Lourival Agra | Carlos Eduardo Elly Rene Sérgio Soroa | unfinished |
| 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 | Her first American feature film and first of ten feature films for Twentieth Century-Fox |
| 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 | Her final film for Twentieth Century-Fox. |
| Copacabana | 1947 | Carmen Novarro / Mademoiselle Fifi | Alfred E. Green | Groucho Marx | This was Carmen Miranda's first film after leaving Twentieth Century-Fox. |
| A Date with Judy | 1948 | Rosita Cochellas | Richard Thorpe | Wallace Beery Jane Powell Elizabeth Taylor | |
| Nancy Goes to Rio | 1950 | Marina Rodrigues | Robert Z. Leonard | Jane Powell Ann Sothern Barry Sullivan | |
| Scared Stiff | 1953 | Carmelita Castinha | George Marshall | Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Lizabeth Scott | Scared Stiff was Carmen Miranda's final film. |

### Short subjects

List of acting credits in short subjects, with directors and principal cast members :
| Title | Year | Role | Director | Co-stars | Notes |
| Hollywood Meets the Navy | 1941 | Herself | Harriet Parsons | | |
| Sing with the Stars | 1945 | Herself | | Dick Lane (as Richard Lane) | Produced by Army Pictorial Service |
| The All-Star Bond Rally | 1945 | Pin-up girl | Michael Audley | | |
| Hollywood Goes to War | 1954 | Herself | | | |

### Radio appearances

| Year | Program | Episode/source |
| 1939 | The Rudy Vallée Show | June 29, 1939 |
| 1939 | The Rudy Vallée Show | August 17, 1939 |
| 1939 | The Fred Allen Show | October 4, 1939 |
| 1941 | Rudy Vallee Valle Varieties | May 22, 1941 |
| 1942 | Command Performance | March 29, 1942 |
| 1942 | Command Performance | August 4, 1942 |
| 1942 | Treasury Star Parade | 1942 |
| 1942 | Hello Americans | "Brazil" |
| 1943 | Command Performance | "Tribute To The British Army" |
| 1944 | Command Performance | January 8, 1944 |
| 1944 | Command Performance | March 25, 1944 |
| 1944 | Lux Radio Theatre | "Springtime In The Rockies" |
| 1944 | Jubilee | June 26, 1944 |
| 1945 | Mail Call | January 10, 1945 |
| 1945 | National Radio Hall of Fame | "Breakfast In Hollywood" |
| 1945 | Which Is Which | January 31, 1945 |
| 1945 | Command Performance | February 1, 1945 |
| 1945 | The Danny Kaye Show | February 15, 1945 |
| 1946 | The Fred Allen Show | March 10, 1946 |
| 1946 | Here's To Veterans | "First Song Sioux City Sue" |
| 1946 | Command Performance | June 30, 1946 |
| 1947 | The Chase and Sanborn Hour | November 23, 1947 |
| 1947 | The Ford Show | April 2, 1947 |
| 1950 | The Hedda Hopper Show | December 10, 1950 |
| 1951 | The Big Show | March 25, 1951 |

### Television appearances

| Year | Program | Episode/source | Note |
| 1948 | Texaco Star Theatre | 5 October 1948 | |
| 1949 | Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel | | |
| 1949 | The Ed Wynn Show | 29 September 1949 | |
| 1949 | Texaco Star Theatre | 18 January 1949 | |
| 1950 | Texaco Star Theatre | 21 November 1950 | |
| 1951 | TV Club | 28 February 1951 | |
| 1951 | What's My Line? | 18 November 1951 | |
| 1951 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | 16 December 1951 | |
| 1951 | Texaco Star Theatre | 6 November 1951 | |
| 1951 | Four Star Revue | 21 March 1951 | |
| 1952 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | 24 February 1952 | |
| 1952 | Texaco Star Theatre | 23 September 1952 | |
| 1953 | Four Star Revue | 7 March 1953 | |
| 1953 | Toast of the Town | 13 September 1953 | |
| 1955 | The Jimmy Durante Show | 15 October 1955 | Last appearance before her death on 5 August 1955. |

### Stage work

* The Streets of Paris (1939–1940)
* Sons o' Fun (1941–1942)