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Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film featuring an African American cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey and produced and directed by Otto Preminger.
Carmen Jones: Directed by Otto Preminger. With Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James. Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre.
Screen version of the musical "Carmen Jones," which adapted Bizet's opera Carmen for an African-American cast. A soldier falls for Dandridge, a seductive factory worker. The lovers flee after...
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Watch the first part of Carmen Jones, a musical film adaptation of Bizet's opera Carmen, starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. Enjoy the stunning performances, the catchy songs, and the ...
Carmen Jones is an adaptation of Bizet's legendary opera Carmen. It tells the story of young, free spirited Carmen Jones, whose great beauty is the object of many men's desires. However, Carmen sets her sights on young army officer Joe, who is engaged to his sweetheart, Cindy Lou.
Carmen Jones is playwright Oscar Hammerstein II’s adaptation of Carmen, a 19th-century French opera set in Seville, Spain. In it, serviceman Don José is seduced away from his military duties and fiancée by a young gypsy named Carmen, ending — as operas often do — in tragedy for all involved.
Dec 7, 2020 · AFI Movie Club: CARMEN JONES. This riveting rendition of “Carmen” with an all-Black cast, CARMEN JONES stars Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. Dandridge was nominated for an Oscar® for her performance, making her the first African American woman to be nominated for a leading role.
In a Southern town during World War II, a soldier named Joe meets Carmen Jones, a fiery employee at the local parachute factory. Fickle and flirtatious, Carmen steals Joe away from his fiancée, and the military as well, and they run off to Chicago together.
Purchase Carmen Jones on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Powered by Georges Bizet's grand music and Oscar Hammerstein II's magnificent lyrics, this Americanized all-black version of the classic opera Carmen is a dynamic superb show with a positively incandescent Carmen.
