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Find out what it was like to play the best UK theaters as the bombs fell.... My Dad Was Carmen Miranda! is the storyline of music-hall showgirl Nena Jover Kelty - part of the renowned Jover family who entertained in circuses, theaters, and music halls throughout the world for three decades. When her father's work, The Two Jovers, broke up in 1939, Tommy Jover drafted his children to create a new work, Tommy Jover with Nena and Raf. They played out around Britain through the dark years of World Battle II, from 1939 to 1946. Although buzz bombs were dropping, food was scarce, and travel was often dangerous, nothing would frighten the Brits into giving up their evenings at the music hall. In the best custom of British isles variety, Tommy Jover do a raucous convert as a lady impersonator - music hall patrons screamed with pleasure when he topped his brain with a berry basket and made like Carmen Miranda - much to the humiliation of young Nena, who played out right to her father's comic antics. My Dad Was Carmen Miranda! offers glimpses of well-known British isles headliners like Utmost Miller, George Formby, Tommy Trinder, Vera Lynn, Flanagan and Allen, Dick Henderson, and Tessie O'Shea which is a stunning backstage go through the vanished world of the British music hall.
