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Carmen Jones
Thu, Nov 10 | 7:30pm | TMT
Dorothy Dandridge made history as the first African American woman ever nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award in producer- director Otto Preminger’s stylish musical adaptation of Georges Bizet’s Carmen . Updating the opera’s story to World War II-era North Carolina, Carmen Jones tells how parachute factory vixen Dandridge (singing voice provided by Marilyn Horne) seduces young private Harry Belafonte (singing by LeVern Hutcherson) into an affair with tragic results. Preminger supported his leading duo with an all-African American cast including Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, and Diahann Carroll, though it’s Dandridge’s striking figure that appeared on the Saul Bass-designed posters for the film.
DIRECTOR: Otto Preminger.
WRITTEN BY: Harry Kleiner.
CAST: Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Olga James. 1954. 108 min. Color. Scope. USA. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
CARMEN JONES, 1954
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