Prosper Merimee's heroine, Carmen, is one of the most durable ladies ever created. Bizet first adapted the story as an opera that was introduced in 1875. The Edison company's film version was done in 1904, the first in an apparently endless series of film versions. Marguerite Snow, Marion
Leonard, and Pearl Sindelar all played the role in 1913, then Cecil B. DeMille starred Geraldine Farrar in his depiction in 1915, while William Fox used Theda Bara that same year, and Charles Chaplin spoofed it the next. Then the cigarette girl got a rest until Ernst Lubitsch directed Pola Negri
in 1921. In 1927, Dolores Del Rio was tapped and, in 1928, the French did a version wi...
Released:
1948
Rated:
NR
Length:
99 mins