Word: mirandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They finished far ahead of such-popular favorites as Carmen Amaya, Carmen Miranda and Rosario & Antonio. Nobody questioned the justice of the verdict. After the ball was over, Raul & Eva returned to their four-to-six shows a day (divided between Broadway's Mexican Hayride and the Havana-Madrid night club) that earn them about $1,000 a week...
...drifts homeward to find detectives chewing cigars and chicle over his strangled wife. All efforts to find his alibi prove useless. The bartender (Andrew Tombes) has never seen her. Neither has the randy little drummer (Elisha Cook Jr.) who ogled her all evening. Neither has the Latin singer (Carmen Miranda's sister, Aurora), who threw a jealous tantrum because she and the Lady were wearing duplicate hats. Henderson is convicted of murder...
...Gang's All Here," starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, etc., in technicolor...
...unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
Four of the shows are badly acted. The single exception here is "Where Do We Go From Here," which involves something including Carmen Miranda, sabotage, stolen records, and the Articles of War. The play was made amusing and worthwhile by the double-talking sergeant reading the articles of war ("Article I--Flibbergabbit on the scrannifornia with homerjohnny fidledudeed on government satchelfradd--the penalty is death!"), and an excellent comic as the supposed saboteur who becomes the recipient of a kiss from a hairy-chested Carmen Miranda...