Carmen Jones

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. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, from the 1943 stage musical of the same name, set to the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. The opera was an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Carmen Jones was a CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color motion picture that had begun shooting within the first 12 months of Twentieth Century Fox's venture in 1953 to the widescreen format as its main production mode.

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Release date:: October 5, 1954
Director:: Otto Preminger
Cast:: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Joe Adams, Diahann Carroll
Genre:: Romance, Drama, Musical
Country:: United States
Language:: English
Year page:: 1954 in adaptations