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Who was the voice of 'Carmen Miranda'???

posted 17 years ago by GrouchoRocks
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This is one of my top five favorite Bugs Bunny shorts. My favorite part is when the 'Carmen Miranda' character goes onstage and sings that spanish gibberish song (I wish I could find the lyrics!!!). I think it is simply impossible for Mel Blanc to have imitated the voice of 'Carmen Miranda'. I wonder who did the voice. Could it have been the real Carmen Miranda? Did she have a contract with Warner Brothers? I have searched high and low on the internet for this information with no results. Any clues out there?

[–] J. Spurlin 17 years ago

I'd like to know this, too. It's possible that a Carmen Miranda recording was used, but I doubt it. I'm hunting around, and I'll let you know if I find out. I'd like to add the info to the database.

And I agree: Mel Blanc is talented as hell but there's no chance he could have sung that song.

... Justin

[–] ignorant 16 years ago

... 'Carmen Miranda' character goes onstage and sings that spanish gibberish song...

Actually the "Carmen Miranda" character is singing in real portuguese about a brazilian girl and all that, not spanish nor castilian... so it might have been a recording of Carmen Miranda herself or maybe taken from the Copacabana film... not sure about this anyway.

[–] Chesterfield_Invincible 16 years ago

A rabbit who could dance, play guitar, and does a great Groucho impression---and Elmer still wanted to "fwickasee" him? And why didn't Bogie notice Bugs during the show?

[–] pc-privconfounder 9 years ago

According to the Wikipedia entry for this cartoon, Carmen Miranda supplied her own voice.

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