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Carmen had previously sung at parties and festivals in Rio. Her older sister Olinda contracted tuberculosis and was sent to Portugal for treatment.

She next worked in a boutique, where she learned to make hats and opened her own hat business which became profitable. In , she was invited as a guest performer in Radio Belgrano in Buenos Aires. Her first major role in a Hollywood film was as an exotic, volatile stereotype of a Latina, and thereafter she was typically typecast in such roles.

Her parts often genericized Latin American cultures and played to stereotypes. This was very well received by American audiences, and fed the interests of the United States' Good Neighbor policy in the s, but it angered critics in South and Central America.

On a return trip home to Brazil in , she was poorly received, and was actually booed off a stage at a charity event she arranged, a drastic change from the adoration she was given before her departure for America.

She did not return to Brazil until shortly before she died in Miranda's greatest legacy, perhaps, is the popularization of the samba.

The samba was created by Afro-Latin American musicians with roots in the Carnival celebrations that blended European Catholic traditions with African ones. Even though Carmen Miranda never went back to Portugal, she maintained her Portuguese nationality.

A samba singer, dancer, actress and movie star, Carmen Miranda gained her popularity between the years of and Carmen Miranda was a sensation! Her grand trademark was a fruit hat that she would use in her American films. During the s, Carmen Miranda performed on a Brazilian radio station and made an appearance in five Brazilian chanchadas , which were movies that celebrated Brazilian music, dances as well as the culture of carnival.