December 25, 2005
AURORA MIRANDA (1915-2005)
Aurora Miranda (sister of Carmen Miranda) passed away at the age of 90 on Thursday, December 22nd 2005. A major star in Brazil, Aurora was best known in the U.S. for her appearence in Walt Disney's The Three Caballeros (1945) - where she danced with Donald Duck and Jose Carioca in the Bahia sequence, to the tune of Ary Barroso’s Os Quindins de Iaiá.
(Thanks, Celbi Pegoraro)