Carmen Miranda

Phoenix worker convicted of nine slayings in Baseline Killer case

2011-11-01 04:35:44

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Bob Mackie lets fans own a piece of Hollywood history

2011-06-22 16:32:16

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Time for another smash

2010-03-06 00:00:00

Tennis great Pete Sampras and his wife, actress Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, have listed their newly built compound in Lake Sherwood for $25 million. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Hot Property: The March 6 Hot Property column, which reported that...

Groucho Marx's former home sells for $8.8 million

2010-02-10 00:00:00

Update: A Beverly Hills house designed by architect Wallace Neff in 1956 for comedic actor Groucho Marx has sold for $8.8 million. The rebuilt and updated Trousdale Estates home, which maintains its Neff footprint, is approached through a motor court...

Milan Fashion Week: Prada's spring collection a fun mix

2010-09-26 00:00:00

There was an assembly-line quality to the beginning of Miuccia Prada's spring show Thursday, the highlight of Milan Fashion Week. Set on a raised metal platform with industrial-style lighting, the models came out one after another, wearing boxy short-...

Natasha Bedingfield buys Los Feliz home for $2.3 million

2009-09-05 00:00:00

Pop star Natasha Bedingfield, who launched her own British invasion of the U.S. airwaves with such often-played hits as "Unwritten," has purchased a home in the Los Feliz area for $2.3 million. The London-born singer-songwriter bought a 4,792-square-foot...

Beverly Hills house that was built for Groucho Marx is listed at $12.9 million

2009-08-26 00:00:00

A Beverly Hills house originally designed in 1956 by architect Wallace Neff for comic actor Groucho Marx has come on the market at $12.9 million. The Trousdale Estates home, which has been redesigned and updated but maintains its Neff footprint, is...

Milan Fashion Week: Pradaâ€™s Baroque Pop

2010-09-24 16:32:16

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 6, 1941

2011-03-06 16:33:04

'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Fantastic Four

2011-05-17 04:36:02

Book Review: 'Warning Shadows' by Gary Giddins

2010-05-23 00:00:00

Warning Shadows Home Alone With Classic Cinema Gary Giddins W.W. Norton: 416 pp., $18.95 Gary Giddins is well known for his writing about music — he was a Village Voice jazz columnist for three decades, and his books, among them the biography...

Cherie DeCastro dies at 87; member of singing trio the DeCastro Sisters

2010-03-23 00:00:00

Cherie DeCastro, the last surviving member of the DeCastro Sisters, the Latin singing trio that was a part of television history in Los Angeles, has died. She was 87. DeCastro died March 14 of pneumonia at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas,...

By 1944, Carmen Miranda , the "Brazilian bombshell," was the highest paid actress in Hollywood just five years after she hit U.S. shores. | Read more See more stars on the Hollywood Star Walk, the Los Angeles Times' virtual tour of the streets of Hollywood.

2012-07-09 11:08:00

cookie jar? Other finds in the home: a brass spotlight from a Japanese cargo ship, an 1898 lobby directory from Bamberger's department store in Newark, N.J.

2010-08-03 16:52:17

New Jersey artist Margaret McCann's "Carmen Miranda Still Life"

2010-05-11 00:00:00