CARMEN MIRANDA CAME TO THE US IN 1939 AND BECAME A MEDIA SENSATION

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  1. July 16, 2013

    This has always been my favourite photo of Carmen. Love it!

    • July 17, 2013

      As the Dandy mentioned, no hat!… And, what a face!

      • July 17, 2013

        She certainly had a beautiful face minus all of the overt make-up and fruit hats. I’ve always liked her, not least of all because we are height mates. Us shorties have to stick together. 🙂

      • July 18, 2013

        I too am very fond of platform shoes 😉

  2. July 16, 2013

    Dearest V
    What a beauty she was, one forgets, diverted by the hats I suppose.
    Yours ever
    The Perfumed Dandy

    • July 17, 2013

      Five feet tall, six to eight inch platform shoes, and a head dress that often reached to the sky – that’s how we go from mite to monumental 😉

      • July 17, 2013

        Dearest V
        Too true. Little Miss Dynamite was she.
        Yours ever
        The Perfumed Dandy

  3. July 17, 2013

    Do you ever wonder what these stars from the past would look like with 2013 make-up and hair? Hmm…

    • July 18, 2013

      Here’s my personal theory — false eyelashes applied by a makeup artist (not the ones I saw my sister glue on in the sixties) catapult the average looker into the stratosphere of pure glamour. That’s my theory and I’m stickin’ to it. 😉

      • July 18, 2013

        I like this theory. It all boils down to some great false eyelashes. I buy that. 🙂

      • July 19, 2013

        Ms. Life! Are you back from your journey East?

  4. Heather in Arles
    July 18, 2013

    Holy cow, she was gorgeous and I had no idea! Those eyes!!!! Yowza. You could light a fire with those sparks.
    Kind of reminds me of Berenice Bejo in “The Artist”, non?

    • July 18, 2013

      Say! Now that you mention it, very much so.

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