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Carmen Miranda\\u2014Brazil\\u2019s Ambassador of Samba, the highest paid woman entertainer in the world in the 1940s. When she died, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians lined the streets of Rio to pay homage to her. Over 50 years after her death she is still Brazil\\u2019s most famous celebrity. Her iconic turban, piled high with fruit, her moves, her rapid fire Portuguese lyrics,\\xa0her wild lens of samba, rhumba, \\xa0along with her epic dance numbers in 1930s Busby Berkeley musicals, captured the imagination of the world.\\xa0The Kitchen Sisters travel to Rio to meet Carmen\\u2019s sister, her husband, her lover, her band leader, her driver, her composers,\\xa0Cesar Romero. And we visit\\xa0the\\xa0Carmen Miranda Museum.