Carmen holds Aracy de Almeida's face as if she treasured something dear from happier times while Almirante looks on and Paulo Machado de Carvalho holds her gently...
In a period less than one year - 9 months actually - the tragedy which became Carmen Miranda's life was reported almost daily in most Brazilian newspapers. Aurora Miranda decided to travel to California to try and bring her sister to Brazil to save her from a great depression that had set in and the US doctors didn't know how to deal with.
Here are some newspaper articles clipped from Rio de Janeiro's 'Correio da Manhã' from December 1954 through to August 1955, when Carmen Miranda dies in Hollywood - 5 August 1955 - and her body is flown down to Rio and is buried on 13 August 1955.
4 December 1954 - Saturday - Correio da Manhã's headlines was a total misconception of the drama Carmen Miranda was living.
3rd December 1954 - Friday - 5 December 1954 - Sunday
2nd December 1954 - NBC news script from WBAP-TV, Fort Worth, Texas kept by University of North Texas tells of Carmen Miranda's stop-over in Dallas, Texas on her way to Brazil. Carmen was accompanied by her Mother & sister Aurora. She had a chance to talk to the press and be 'cheeky' as was her usually was.
10 December 1954 - Saturday -
18 December 1954 - Sunday -
Aurora, Carmen and Cecília Miranda at home, in Rio, in 1955.
Carmen trying to have as much fun as she could at a Copacabana Palace ball in the Carnaval of 55.
Revista do Rádio's Photo of the Week: Carmen embraces Ary Barroso and Sylvio Caldas during a function in a Rio night-club in early 1955. She'd be dead before year's end.
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