They were among the last autographs the samba star would ever sign. Two days after Miranda left Havana, she was rehearsing for an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show in Hollywood, when, out of the blue, she decided to call Ofelia. “She had called to ask about her guayabera shirts,” said Ofelia, recalling the traditional Cuban four-pocket linen shirts that Miranda was having made by Ofelia’s dressmaker. A few hours later, the forty-six-year-old Miranda died of a heart attack.
