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Carmen Jones

1954, Movie, NR, 105 mins

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Great music from Bizet's opera combined with new lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II are not enough to completely gloss over the cardboard characterizations in this update of Carmen. Dorothy Dandridge's magnificent, Oscar-nominated performance, however, is. Read the complete review for Carmen Jones
Year: 1954
Rated NR

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Cast
Dorothy Dandridge: Carmen
Harry Belafonte: Joe
Olga James: Cindy Lou
Pearl Bailey: Frankie
Diahann Carroll: Myrt
Roy E. Glenn Sr.: Rum

 

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Pearl Bailey (as "Frankie"), one of only two principals to sing her own part, in her big...
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Title character Dorothy Dandridge's voice is dubbed by Marilyn Horne while she's driven to...
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Question Back when I was a young lad mid- to late 1960s WWOR-TV in NYC used to run something called Million Dollar Movie They would play the same movie for the entire week I remember one movie that was based on the opera Carmen At the time of course I didnt know the movie was based on the opera I dont remember seeing it since then I only remember the last scene The male lead dragoon is about to be shot when the female lead Carmen I think gets in front of him and gets shot instead She dies in his arms and he dies shortly afterwards from an earlier injury then theres a rush of dragoons into the bandits hideout and the movie ends I thought it was the Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford version of Carmen but when I saw that a few years ago it wasnt the one I remembered There have been several movies based on Carmen and I couldnt even tell you if the movie was foreign and dubbed If you have any idea about the movie an read more

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