Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business

The documentary is about Carmen Miranda. Miranda was a singer born in Portugal. Her family moved to Brazil. It was there that she began to sing. Before long she was known across the country. Then she went to America. There she was presented as a Brazilian star. She worked on the Broadway stage. In the forties she played in Hollywood films. The hat of fruit is what stayed in people’s minds. But that image also boxed her in. Her family and people who knew her speak in the documentary. Her sister Aurora is among those telling it. Archive footage and scenes from her films are used. The account shows her on stage and away from it. Aurora Miranda and Mario Cunha appear in the ninety one minute documentary, a Brazilian and British coproduction Helena Solberg finished in 1995.