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...Prensa's only winner widely known to the U.S. public was in the class of female entertainers: the explosive Spanish gypsy dancer, Carmen Amaya (TIME, Feb. 17, 1941). Hollywood's cavern-mouthed Carmen Miranda came in 20th, famed Dancer Argentinita 37th...
...been a plot, and if Betty Grable and John Payne could do some thing more than look like Mr. and Mrs. Superman, "Springtime In the Rockies" might have been something more than a hot trumpet solo by Harry James in technicolor. But you can't toss off Carmen Miranda, as much the gleeful eyeful as ever, whose antics are as refreshing as a Navy Smoker...
...hideout of 2000 rooms in the western Rockies, hot on the trail of his lost sweetheart. The routine is well known by now--continental chase ending amidst nature's wonders. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda, and something from the Los Angeles zoo can portray the species. Between the antics of these over-anxious characters, the screen is filled with dancer John in chase and partner Betty oh-so undecided about the whole thing...
...toss off Carmen (gleeful eyeful) Miranda too lightly. Garbed in a florist's nightmare, she struts about spouting Brazilian double-talk with the facility of a side-show barker. There is a certain electric element in her contortion with commentary, something that makes the whole experience at least refreshing...
...American friends better. His first broadcast (Hello, Americans!) for Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Affairs committee was laid (by dramatic license) in Rio de Janeiro, where Welles had recently passed three months making a picture (It's All True, as yet unreleased). With the assistance of Carmen Miranda, an orchestra, a cast, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, enthusiastic Orson took his listeners on a radio Cook's tour of Brazil that was lively, though bumpy in spots...