“The lady who wear my turban, my funnee shoes and my treek jewelry, she gotta have the skinny face and the big-a-mouth like me, eh? After all, how would I going to look in hoop-skirts and Watteau hats, huh?” — Carmen Miranda
Source (and accent): Duncan Underhill (1941)
Photo: 1941
“Call me Carmen. I tell you how come thees turbans begin. In Bahia, Brrrazeel, the black womans go to market weeth fruits and vegetables or flowers in beeg baskets which they wear on the head. So I say…thees ees unusual…and I design my turbans from them.” — Carmen Miranda
Source: Dorothy Raymer (1947)
“Before I speak Engleesh, you Americans treat me like I was a great foreign star. Now you act like I am slightly half-wit baby.” — Carmen Miranda
Source: 1945
Photo: 1942
