Instagram @carmenmirandaforever Brazilian singer, actress and dancer Carmen Miranda in an interview to British Pathé at the London Palladium in April 1948.
She was seriously ahead of her time. I like the shade she throws on the Hollywood machine that tried to strip her of her ethnic culture. Born in Portugal, raised in Brazil.
I beleive there was so mucn more to Carmen than what we ever saw on screen. She looked very intelligent,quick witted and so charming....I wish we knew her better....I love her so much!
+MinnieMagic Beauty Indeed, I saw in another clip she couldn't speak any English when she came to America in 1939 , but sounded pretty fluent in this clip .
@@manudavis2164 Carmem Miranda se naturalizou brasileira. E apesar de ter nascido em Portugal, ela veio para o Brasil com apenas alguns meses de vida e sua língua materna era o português brasileiro. Além disso, ela nunca se considerou portuguea e sempre dizia em entrevistas que tinha orgulho de ser BRASILEIRA e jamais iria se americanizar, como muitos na época a acusavam.
@@Andre.felipe84 ahahahahaha 😂 ela viveu em Hollywood a vida inteira 😂 "nunca iria se americanizar" kkkkkkk olha o inglês dela, quase perfeito, naquela época sem internet ter um inglês assim ela tinha q viver muito tempo com americanos pra conseguir falar tão bem. Ela usou da cultura brasileira to make money, como ela mesmo disse neste curto vídeo.
@@emersoncoelho7187 Desde quando falar um inglês perfeito e morar nos EUA faz uma pessoa deixar de ser brasileira?? kkkkkkkk Só na sua cabeça. Se fosse assim, Gisele Bündchen, Sônia Braga etc não seriam mais brasileiros. (Ah e o inglês dela tem forte sotaque ainda, o que não é nenhum defeito, mas apenas uma prova que ela não se "americanizou"). Ela "usou a cultura brasileira" pra ganhar dinheiro porque ela SEMPRE SE CONSIDEROU BRASILEIRA por ter vindo para o Brasil com apenas 02 anos, e ter crescido no país e não ter outra referência de pátria além do Brasil. Ela nunca disse ser portuguesa, nunca falou em Portugal, sempre exaltou o Brasil e interpretou um clássico feito especialmente para ela justamente para responder essa acusação de que ela teria voltado americanizada e deixado a brasilidade: Me disseram que eu voltei americanizada Com o burro do dinheiro, que estou muito rica Que não suporto mais o breque do pandeiro E fico arrepiada ouvindo uma cuíca Disseram que com as mãos estou preocupada E corre por aí que eu sei certo zum zum Que já não tenho molho, ritmo, nem nada E dos balangandans já nem existe mais nenhum Mas pra cima de mim pra quê tanto veneno? E eu posso lá ficar americanizada? Eu que nasci com o samba e vivo no sereno Topando a noite inteira a velha batucada? Nas rodas de malandro, minhas preferidas Eu digo é mesmo eu te amo, e nunca I love you Enquanto houver Brasil na hora das comidas Eu sou do camarão ensopadinho com chuchu Me disseram que eu voltei americanizada Com o burro do dinheiro, que estou muito rica Que não suporto mais o breque do pandeiro E fico arrepiada ouvindo uma cuíca Me disseram que com as mãos estou preocupada E corre por aí que eu sei certo zum zum Que já não tenho molho, ritmo, nem nada E dos balangandans já nem existe mais nenhum Mas pra cima de mim pra quê tanto veneno? Eu posso lá ficar americanizada? Eu que nasci com o samba e vivo no sereno Topando a noite inteira a velha batucada? Nas rodas de malandro, minhas preferidas Eu digo é mesmo eu te amo, e nunca I love you Enquanto houver Brasil na hora das comidas Eu sou do camarão ensopadinho com chuchu Mas pra cima de mim pra quê tanto veneno? Eu posso lá ficar americanizada? Eu que nasci com o samba e vivo no sereno Topando a noite inteira a velha batucada Nas rodas de malandro, minhas preferidas Eu digo é mesmo eu te amo, e nunca I love you Enquanto houver Brasil na hora das comidas Eu sou do camarão ensopadinho com chuchu
She gave off such a wonderful and joyous energy, but it wasn't until I saw this very very brief interview with her as herself that I could see just how brightly she really and truly shined. I read she died under unhappy situations and that the Latin Americans who first loved her went on to not only turn their backs on her but even banned some of her movies because they felt she misrepresented Latin America. If anything she contributed greatly to Americas awareness of Latin America during that time. She was so hurt by it that she didn't return to Brazil for 14 years, but ultimately she was buried in Rio and they opened a museum for her.
Wow...this interview is very candid. Here we get a real view of what she was actually like without the Hollywood Persona. From this interview you can see that she is happy to be internationally recognized, but at the same time, there is a a very subtle resentment towards Hollywood for typecasting her and attempting to Americanize her. For example, the comment about the bleaching of her hair is slightly sarcastic and double talk, I don't sense that she is really happy about having her hair bleached, but realizes that is Hollywood's attempt to assimilate her into American culture. Although, this strategy was highly successful for the most part, I believe she would have preferred to stay closer to her Brazilian roots.
+Oldmanriver77 Yes. She was always proud to be Portugese and not so much recognized as Brazilian. Probably because,of course, she was born in Portugal. My opinion is that although beautiful as a blonde....I much prefer her natural dark and sultry hair colour! Bleach is awfully drying to the hair too...Shame that Hollywood had to go to such lengths but it's nice to see her being her bubbly and loveable self!
+Oldmanriver77 She had no brazilian roots. Lol... She was light skin with green eyes. She was very white, although she tried to have a more south american look. CARMEN MIRANDA WAS PORTUGUESE! She came to Brazil as a ittle child with her portuguese parents, because her father had some kind of business (I don't ecall now) that lead them to move to Brazil. she is not brazilian descend , nor african or indigenous. don't forget also that the colorized videos that you may see, don't have the exact real colors. Nobody needs to bleach the hair to look more american. what counts is the skin color . there are many blacks and japanese who bleach their hair and it doesn't maake them look real americans) . Irish people have dark hair and there are a lot of americans who are irish decend. Not all americans are blond and also many american women bleach their natural brown hair.
No matter where she born. She lived almost her whole life in Brazil and its just because of that she was recognized in whole world and became a great and famous Hollywood star. If she was very proud of being portuguese then she would represent Portugal in their concerts but it does not happened.. She just singed and dressed like brazilian woman. I never had seen she singing fado or dressing portuguese clothers, then we have to accept the facts: she was not brazilian but she lived like one brazilian. If it were not Brazil, she would not have became the great artist she was one day..
What a precious, historic interview and even more special cause it was in London - I for one had never heard of her traveling to another country besides the US. Aw, I faintly remembered some of her pics without the turban but in this clip it looks simply gorgeous, how her hair shone in elegance when she set her hair free from the turban, liberating her feminine 'magic' itself. Also, tinting her hair did go down perfectly well on her face and skin, her hairdresser did a wonderful job on it, with a blow-dry or whatever it was, the hair professional must be praised for all that as well! I confess I never liked turbans since I was a child - especially for women, as it sort of imprisons the hair and the feminine soul in a tight, stifling grip. My mom, however, loved them. Fortunately, she rarely used one:-). For those who don't know much about this great artist yet, she was actually born in northern Portugal, as her older sister, Olinda, but her four younger siblings - Amaro, Cecília, Aurora and Oscar - were born already here in Brazil. Aurora was also a singer and a good one we must say. Carmen was brought to our homeland very early (some say at one year old) but felt herself as a Brazilian; she kept her Portuguese nationality though. Her heart, nevertheless was indeed fully Brazilian:-) It might not sound important to many but the fact that she was a shorty, even wearing platform shoes, which she popularized, makes her even more special as a reference to short people as well, who often become victims of bullying and even physical aggression, suffering from low self-esteem. An excerpt from this article about her clever way to deal with the problem: "In 1934, when Miranda was a samba singer in Brazil, she commissioned an orthopaedic cobbler in Rio de Janeiro to make thick-soled shoes to boost her height - she was just 5 ft tall. At around the same time, Moshe Kimmel would design a pair of platforms for Marlene Dietrich that later became known as the first “official” platforms - but the towering shoes were always essential to Miranda’s larger-than-life look. ..." www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/aug/05/carmen-mirandas-fashion-turbans-platform-shoes-and-a-lot-of-controversy Thank you so much for this, greetings from Brazil!
Carmen Miranda foi a única estrela com o salário mais alto durante a sua carreira em Hollywood. Até hoje, nenhuma estrela feminina tem conseguido superar o pagamento de estrelas do sexo masculino. Carmen Miranda foi a única. Nos Estados Unidos, isto é a definição de quem realmente é estrela. Ela era a maior estrela de Broadway e Hollywood do seu tempo e fez milhões de dólares para os produtores.
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Mas isso foi sua ruína. Tanto dinheiro, tanto trabalho, igualmente muita exploração e solidão.
@@emersoncoelho7187 Portuguesa so de nascimento pq a alma e conhecimento dela era totalmente brasileiro , tanto é que ela so nasceu e nunca mais voltou pra portugal , resumindo, ela não era portuguesa e sim brasileira de coração !!
She was quite attractive (likely being called some Latin spitfire like Chita Rivera). I barely remember her because I was quite young at the time in the 1950's but I definitely do remember watching movies she was in during that decade. Her character was also popular in a number of cartoons. I thought I'd check her out after watching a The Simpson's episode where Bob Hope says to god about Todd or Rod was fruitier than Carmen Miranda's hat rack and then I thought back about how popular she was way back when. Of course she would have been type-cast in Hollywood but she probably could have done so many other types of roles if they allowed her to. I don't remember her having blonde hair but she looks good in it. It sure is a nice trip down memory lane. If I get some time maybe I'll watch one of her movies here on RU-vid.
@@emersoncoelho7187 *Apenas nasceu em Portugal. Viveu 2 meses lá e nunca mais pisou o pé naquele país. Carmen é Brasileira, se identificava como Brasileira, foi naturalizada como Brasileira, criada como Brasileira e está enterrada no Brasil, como Brasileira. 😊
@@emersoncoelho7187 você está em todos os comentários lembrando os brasileiros que ela nasceu em Portugal, enquanto Carmen em todas as entrevistas se entitulava brasileira por si só, vc está a tentar a frustrar as pessoas Sr português?
Juridicamente, ela nunca renunciou à nacionalidade portuguesa. Além disso, caso ela tenha concluído um processo de naturalização brasileira*, não existe perda da nacionalidade original. * Não encontrei nenhuma fonte que comprove que ela se naturalizou brasileira. Caso alguém tenha informações autênticas sobre o assunto.
Carmen Miranda foi uma mulher a frente ao seu tempo, chegou nos Estados Unidos em 1939 e fez tudo acontecer, levou o Brasil para o mundo a fora, fico me perguntando como que ela conseguiu aprender inglês em tão pouco tempo, hoje vejo esse pessoal fazendo curso de inglês e não falam nem a metade, ela falava inglês fluentemente isso nos anos 40.
Não força, os primeiros filmes dela em inglês eram arrastados (decorava a pronúnicia) que doem aos ouvidos. Aí, nessa entrevista (uns dez anos já na gringa) está fluente.
@@gomes2151mas ela era forçada a fazer sotaque latino de propósito porque essa excentricidade vendia, tanto q quando ela ja estava fluente uma vez foi pega no flagra por um repórter que a viu falando inglês bem e pensou “ué então vc fala inglês corretamente?” E ela logo fingiu o sotaque forte e brincou dizendo pra ele não divulgar ela sem o estereótipo latino
Adore her! wish there was more of her without the bahiana, even tho she wouldn't be Carmen without it. but more ordinary presentations show just how attractive she was.
Rick D there's a short video of her called carmen miranda at home. made between 1949 and 1952 where she's in her backyard wearing a swimsuit and no turban
Fábio Pinheiro 99% brasileira pq ela representou muito mais o Brasil do que Portugal, por sinal ela veio para o Brasil ainda muito pequena. Além de educação, falta muita interpretação de texto. Jumento!
Fábio Pinheiro sobre o esteriótipo eu concordo com você! Mas o esteriótipo não tem a ver com a frase. Você simplesmente não interpretou direito e agora veio jogar essa.
i wish people would know more about her beyond Brazil. She had a magnetic personality. Too bad her husband was so shitty and drove her to an early grave
Such a very talented, intelligent woman and pretty woman. And with an unique ability to understand how to charm an audience as a professional performer. Additionally, a proven ability to demonstrate natural talent which won the hearts of her admirers time and time again.
she was very pretty; her hair was very beautiful, and her personality very sweet. When I see her hair like that, he remember me the great Rita Hayworth in GILDA. What a beautiful women they was!!!
She said "this is not my natural hair color, they bleach it in Hollywood" Of course they did. In the racially charged environment of the 40s and 50s they tried to made her look more white so she'd be more accepted and subsequently more marketable.
Exactly in fact she's got her music influence from the African community in Bahia. I'm proud that she gave credit to these people who inspired her to be who she was.
Ouviu mal a segunda parte do que ela falou. Ela disse que passam por ela na rua e a acham parecida consigo mesma, mas que depois vem alguém e diz: "não, ela é muito novinha para ser a Carmen Miranda".
I've seen another interview in which she does the same thing - says that people think she has no hair under her unique hats, then shows off that she does, and says that it gets lightened in Hollywood.
That woman had more talent then what Hollywood knew what to do with her in the 40's 50's etc. She was also beautiful and very talented. She probably had more talent then all of Hollywood put together.
It seems like the camera cut when she takes off the hat to reveal her perfect hair. Imagine taking that creature off your head and have luscious curls fall out!
Just a throught: If there was a biopic of her life, I think Sofia Vergara ( ABC's Modern Family-she played Gloria) will be a great choice playing her. ☺
I wonder if she mentioned that it's not her natural hair color and that they dye it in Hollywood as a way to not alienate her home country. I heard there was a period where they shunned her in Brazil because she was not a good representation of her people. I wonder if this blonde hair dye was part of that and she mentioned it was dyed so they'd know it was not her decision but she was obligated to by Hollywood producers. There are actual blonde blue-eyed Brazilians so dying her hair blonde isn't necessarily betraying her country but I can also understand that people might assume it was her choice because she didn't like her ethnic look and was selling out to look like your typical Hollywood star. I raised this question because for that period, it seems very odd that a Hollywood star under contract with a studio would dare reveal that it's not her natural color and that Hollywood made her do it. Back then they went above and beyond to conceal a non-White actresses' real ethnic background. To illustrate how badly Hollywood looked upon actors they deemed to be minorities, Rita Hayworth is a perfect example. She was racially Caucasian but just having an ethnic surname and being a dancer of Spanish styled cultural dancers, they viewed her in Hollywood the same way they viewed a Mexican which is of low class and of a background they urgently wanted to conceal. Yet, she was a White European from Europe. The studio saw potential in her looks and scrubbed her Spanish roots from her even though those Spanish roots were European roots through and through.
