Carmen, Miranda

Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s.  But this is a picture of Carmen AND Miranda taken earlier this spring--just happened to come across it in an email from Carmen's mom.  The young ladies are enjoying a wee cup of tea with their dollies:  Carmen looks characteristically ebullient, and I can only attribute Miranda's strange expression to her possible consideration of which finger to extend in order to appear most elegantly British (it's the pinky, dear!)... Aye, caramba!