Carmen Miranda

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha GOIH OMC Marco de Canaveses February 9 1909 Beverly Hills August 5 1955 known professionally as Carmen Miranda was a Portugueseborn Brazilian singer dancer and actress who attained fame in Brazil and the US in the 1930s Best known to American audiences as the lady in the tuttifrutti hat due to her signature headdresses made of fruits she was the first South American honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame