Carmen D'Antonio

Carmen D'Antonio was a dancer and actress from the United States whose nightclub routine was billed as exotic; she performed at the Pirate's Den in Hollywood and took the stage on Broadway in Panama Hattie (1940). In the 1940s she appeared in several short films built around her dancing, including Jungle Drums Artist (1941), Balinesia Artist (1942) and Conchita Pepita (1942), and during the next decade she toured the country, dancing in casinos and nightclubs. Her screen credits ran from Another Thin Man (1939) and Destry Rides Again (1939) to Arabian Nights (1942), Sirocco (1951) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). She also worked in television, frequently given Native American parts in Westerns such as Wagon Train, along with appearances in The Thin Man, Checkmate, My Three Sons and Family Affair. A film scholar noted that she offered Hollywood a generic foreignness suited to stories set in Singapore, Arabia or Morocco.