Antique collectors piece 1980s vintage piece Carmen Miranda cookie jar Small flaw in pineapple on hat (see photos) Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and recognized for her signature fruit hat outfit that she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang’s All Here. She is considered the precursor of Brazil’s Tropicalismo.