- In the 1940s, she was the highest paid star and performer in the United States.
- Her contract with 20th Century Fox specified that there would be no cutting away from her to reaction shots and/or dialog from other players while her musical numbers were in progress.
- The intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Orange Drive was named Carmen Miranda Square. (September 1998)
- To date (2016), she was the only Brazilian to have their hand - and footprints in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
- Although born in Portugal, she considered herself Brazilian deep down.
- Following her sudden death, she was flown back to Rio de Janerio according with her wishes, and was interred at San Joao Batista Cemetery.
- Though this was not widely known by her fans, she refused to wear panties forcing the camera to do very careful filming.
- She appeared in the 1939 Broadway revue, "Streets of Paris", in which she introduced the song "South American Way".
- The Lady with the Tutti-Frutti Hat in Hollywood musicals of the 1940s. See her at her sparkling best as the cheeky Rosita Murphy in the gorgeous Technicolor Springtime in the Rockies (1942), in which, without the slightest effort, she virtually steals every scene she's in - upstaging even the film's [nominal] star, Betty Grable.
- While she was one of the best liked, highest paid, and most well known Hollywood stars of the 1940s, she very rarely played a feature role in films. Instead, she often appeared as the comic foil for other actresses and received relatively little screen time.
- Pictured on one of five nondenominated USA commemorative stamps honoring Latin Music Legends, issued on 16 March 2011; price on day of issue was 44¢. The other stamps honored Tito Puente, Selena, Carlos Gardel and Celia Cruz.
- While her grasp on English was tenuous at best in her early days in Hollywood, she would often play up the language barrier in promotional appearances. Audiences found her mispronunciation of words and her obliviousness in the face of interviewers' questions charming. To capitalize on that aspect of her popularity, Miranda would often intentional mispronounce words, over emphasize her accent, feign ignorance when asked a question in English, and begin speaking to English-speaking audiences in Portuguese before correcting her mistake and attempting to speak English.
- Never had children. She became pregnant once in 1948 but tragically suffered a miscarriage.
- Her appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show (1954), in which she had a heart attack while filming, aired posthumously. She appeared on the second episode of the show's second season. It aired two months after her untimely death.
- While working for Fox, she was often instructed to just speak in Portuguese for portions of her films. This saved time while filming, as her English was generally poor (particularly early in her Hollywood career). The studio would simply have Carmen Miranda say her lines in Portuguese and would have the actor she was talking to respond in English; frequently the Portuguese lines did not match the English responses, but the studio figured that few people in American audiences in the 1940s would know the difference.
- Sister of actress Aurora Miranda (born 1915), Olinda da Cunha (born 1907), Amaro da Cunha (born 1911), Cecília da Cunha (born 1913) and Oscar da Cunha (born 1916).
- She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6262 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- Leslie Fish made Carmen Miranda, or rather her ghost, the subject of a song called "Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting Space Station Three". There is also a book by that name, containing a collection of short stories. The only connection between the stories is that each have to do with the title.
- Jimmy Buffett made her the subject of a song called "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More". The song appeared on his album "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean" (1973).
- Her stage name was chosen based on the popularity of the Georges Bizet opera, "Carmen" and on its similarity to portions of her birth name.
- Bob Mackie's Brazilian Banana Bonanza Barbie, a Gold Label collector Barbie released by Mattel in 2012, was directly based on her. The doll wears her iconic fruit hat, tall platform sandals, and a sarong.
- Daughter of José Maria Pinto da Cunha (1887-1938) and Maria Emília Miranda (1886-1971).
- In 1998 the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Orange Drive was renamed Miranda Square.
- She spent most of her early life in Brazil where she worked as a hat maker before being invited to attend the Brazilian Music Academy.
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