Hollywood's Highest-Paid Woman Wore a Hat Made of Fruit

She was Hollywood's highest-paid woman, she wore a hat made of fruit, and for the world she WAS Brazil. She was born in Portugal. And when she came home to Rio at the height of her fame, the audience went silent. Carmen Miranda: the hat shop, the radio, the baiana costume and where it really came from, Broadway, Hollywood, the accusation of being "Americanized", and the song she answered it with. CHAPTERS 0:00 Who was Carmen? 0:24 Born in Portugal 0:42 The hat shop 0:55 The radio star 1:35 The baiana 2:11 Broadway 2:53 Hollywood 3:45 Coming home 4:41 A cage of fruit 5:34 The last years 6:19 Your turn SOURCES English Wikipedia, Carmen Miranda Ruy Castro, Carmen: uma biografia (2005) Shari Roberts, The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat (Cinema Journal, 1993) Museu Carmen Miranda (Rio)