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Miss Chiquita started as an animated banana with a woman's dress and legs. Vocalist Patti Clayton was the original 1944 voice of Miss Chiquita, followed by Elsa Miranda, June Valli and Monica Lewis. Advertisements featured the trademark banana character wearing a fruit hat. The banana with a fruit hat was changed into a woman in 1987. [40]
In 1947, Lewis began to provide the singing voice for "Miss Chiquita Banana", a cartoon television commercial character. In 1948, she appeared in the first Ed Sullivan Show, then titled Toast of the Town, which also featured Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis].
Clayton was the original voice of Miss Chiquita, the Chiquita banana singer. In 1944, bananas were an exotic fruit in America. The Chiquita banana jingle was introduced, not only to promote bananas, but to teach the public how to use and store them.
Elsa Miranda was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, a city located in the southern region of the island.She moved to New York City with her mother Amelia Miranda (1898-2007) and became a performer who first attained notoriety as a vocalist through her live performances during the Golden Age of Radio in the United States in the 1940s.
Miss Chiquita Banana: Chiquita bananas: 1944–present Chuck E. Cheese: Chuck E. Cheese restaurants: 1977–present: voiced by Duncan Brannan until 2012 when he was replaced by Jaret Reddick (due to the revamp of Chuck E.). However Brannan's voice was still used for the Chuck E Cheese Animatronic and music video shows (in studio C), that are ...
After a series of mergers, new corporate managers, and name changes in the 1970s and 1980s, much of UFC transformed into Chiquita Brands International in the 1990s under a new name, building on ...
In the late 1940s, he worked as an illustrator for Newsweek as well as for Johnstone and Cushing, an advertising company, where, in 1944, he created the Carmen-Miranda-inspired Miss Chiquita trademark/logo, for Chiquita, and later, the Birds Eye bird, a Campbell's Soup kids redesign, and a Mounds candy bar ad. [10] [11]
Rita Moreno (born Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano; [1] December 11, 1931) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. [2] She has performed on stage and screen in a career spanning over eight decades.