Carmen Jones

Release Date:

Oct 28, 1954

Running Time:

1:45

Genre:

Musical

Director:

Otto Preminger

Cast:

Dorothy Dandridge	Carmen Jones
Harry Belafonte	Joe
Pearl Bailey	Frankie
Olga James	Cindy Lou
Diahann Carroll	Myrt
Roy Glenn	Rum Daniels
Nick Stewart	Dink Franklin
Joe Adams	Husky Miller
Brock Peters	Sergeant Brown
Sandy Lewis	T-Bone
Mauri Lynn	Sally (uncredited)
DeForest Covan	Trainer (uncredited)

Producers:

Otto Preminger

Writers:

Harry Kleiner

Language:

English

Related Programs:

Lady Sings the Blues

Cabin in the Sky

King Creole

West Side Story

Gone With the Wind

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 the soldier kills his sergeant, but Carmen's taunting faithlessness drives her lover to a crime of passion.

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