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Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s. By the 1930s, Miranda was a local star, singing and dancing in musicals and five Brazilian feature films. Lee Shubert, a Broadway impresario, offered the Carmen Miranda an eight week contract to perform in "The Streets of Paris" on Broadway after seeing her perform at Cassino da Urca in the Rio de Janeiro in 1939.