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  2. The Streets of Paris - Wikipedia

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    The Streets of Paris is a musical revue featuring Bobby Clark, Luella Gear, Abbott and Costello and Carmen Miranda, debuted on May 29, 1939 in Boston and on June 19, 1939 in New York. Had two hours and-a-half, with the interval. The musical was staged from June 1939 to 10 February 1940, totaling 274 presentations. [1]

  3. South American Way - Wikipedia

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    "South American Way" is a 1939 song with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Al Dubin. Carmen Miranda introduced the song in the 1939 Broadway musical The Streets of Paris. Miranda performed it on-screen a year later in her breakout role for U.S. audiences in the film Down Argentine Way (1940), causing it to become very popular in the United ...

  4. Abbott and Costello - Wikipedia

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    With Carmen Miranda, The Streets of Paris, in 1939. The team's first known radio broadcast was on The Kate Smith Hour on February 3, 1938. [3] At first, the similarities between their voices made it difficult for radio listeners (as opposed to stage audiences) to tell them apart during their rapid-fire repartee. As a result, Costello affected a ...

  5. 1939 in television - Wikipedia

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    1939 1946 1952 Starlight (UK) November 3, 1936 1939 1946 1949 The Disorderly Room (UK) April 17, 1937 August 20, 1939 For The Children (UK) April 24, 1937 1939 July 7, 1946 1950 Sports Review (UK) April 30, 1937 1939 Telecrime (UK) August 10, 1938 July 25, 1939 October 22, 1946 November 25, 1946 Let's Talk It Over with June Hynd (US) June 21, 1939

  6. Carmen Miranda filmography - Wikipedia

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    Carmen Miranda in 1944. This is a complete filmography of Carmen Miranda, a Portuguese-Brazilian singer, actress, and dancer.. By the mid-1930s, Carmen Miranda had become the most popular female singer in Brazil, and one of the nation's first film stars.

  7. Paris in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The metro ran, but service was frequently interrupted and the cars were overcrowded. Three thousand five hundred buses had run on the Paris streets in 1939, but only five hundred were still running in the autumn of 1940. Bicycle-taxis became popular, and their drivers charged a high tariff.

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  9. Édith Piaf - Wikipedia

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    Édith's father Louis Alphonse Gassion (1881–1944) was an acrobatic street performer from Normandy with a theater background. Louis's father was Victor Alphonse Gassion (1850–1928) and his mother was Léontine Louise Descamps (1860–1937), who ran a brothel in Normandy and was known professionally as "Maman Tine".