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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9781572522725
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 1572522720
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: August 12, 1998
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Few people know that movie star and gay icon Carmen Miranda was actually born in Portugal but moved to Rio de Janeiro as a girl in 1909. She was a determined, self-perpetuated creation--a master at promoting her public self, which "she wore like a mask that could not be penetrated." That she ultimately became the richest woman in America at one point in her career was a testament to her sheer will to succeed in show business. Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business is a hit-and-miss, sometimes shabbily done "proto-documentary" about her childhood and stardom, enacted with the sort of faux seriousness that is at times embarrassingly inane. The real people in the film, including her cousin, actors Cesar Romero, Rita Moreno, and Alice Faye (who says simply, "She had magic"), and boyfriends from her youth ("She had eyes like the headlights on a car," rues one) paint a portrait of a woman who, though effervescent on the surface, was haunted by criticism from home after she became "Americanized" and who endured a cold, loveless, physically abusive marriage. Miranda emerges as a Hollywood victim, for although she had everything she wanted, she was never given the studio's blessing to escape from her image to pursue her true musical talent. Sleeping pills, depression, and electroshock therapy followed, further indicating an underlying misery despite Miranda's gleeful public expression that "bananas is my business." Yet she never despised her famous alter ego--a Latin spitfire bombshell who wore a fruit basket on her head. Her death by a heart attack, which followed a collapse while dancing with Jimmy Durante, is unfortunately mismanaged in the film by director Helena Solberg. Miranda, who is still remembered by millions, hardly merits a bad reenactment of her lonely demise. It's a shame this intriguing documentary (that is, when it sticks to the film clips and archival footage) feels compelled to inject such speculative contrivances, because Miranda's life was fascinating of its own accord. --Paula Nechak
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Rating:  -
Carmen Miranda possessed a singular ability to show people how to have fun; and this talent was so infectious that it was always magical to watch her on the screen I still enjoy movies that feature her today! This documentary about Carmen's life is rather well done; and the action moves along at a good pace.
We see many still photos of Carmen in her late teenage years; sometimes we also see an actress playing a very young Carmen on the beach mostly likely because no such footage exists. ... Read More
Rating:  -
I first saw this documentary back in about 1995 while
I was living in Atlanta on TBS I believe it was...
Anywayz, I thought it was great then and when I saw
that it was now available on DVD, I jumped at the chance to buy it!
Very little was known about how the "Brazilan Bombshell",
the great Carmen Miranda, rose to prominence on the world stage!
Before Celia Cruz and Salsa, Before La Lupe transfixed audiences
with her impassioned and (some say) possessed ... Read More
Rating: -
I first saw this film when it was broadcast on the independent film show, P.O.V. (Point of View), on PBS back in 1995. I knew about as much about Carmen Miranda as the average Yanqui. (Even though I like to think I transcend this national limitation with my inherited sense of Latina soul by way of my Venezuelan father's DNA.) I wanted to know more about "The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat," this icon who represented so many things to so many people. To her people of Brazil, she was their Carmen, that ... Read More
Rating:  -
This was a very odd documentary. Normally, I enjoy this forum of film. I enjoy learning about a person or events that I normally would never learn about. I love learning about famous people that to the normal eye would have a normal life, but behind the scenes it was nothing but trials and tribulations. The only issue I have is that sometimes it is hard to create a good documentary, or just another episode of E! True Hollywood Stories. That is exactly the line that Carmen Miranda: Bananas is my Business ... Read More
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Carmen Miranda's million dollar smile and unforgetable image will continue for generations to remember the priceless contributions of a once unknown Brasilian woman to the rest of the world. Her natural abilities to entertain and gain the favor of Hollywood during the "middle ages" of segregationism and other phobias was an amazing triumphant of what appear impossible for a Latin American women and men. Kudos for her because she won fame and fortune in so little time. In this documentary, you will learn to ... Read More
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