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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.
Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre.
Carmen Jones: Directed by Otto Preminger. With Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James. Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
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.
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Carmen Jones is an adaptation of Bizet's legendary opera Carmen. It tells the story of young, free spirited Carmen Jones, whose great beauty is the object of many men's desires. However, Carmen sets her sights on young army officer Joe, who is engaged to his sweetheart, Cindy Lou.
In a Southern town during World War II, a soldier named Joe meets Carmen Jones, a fiery employee at the local parachute factory. Fickle and flirtatious, Carmen steals Joe away from his fiancée, and the military as well, and they run off to Chicago together.
Carmen Jones is a retelling of Bizet's opera about an independent woman who lives by her own rules and discards men when she grows tired of them. The characters were changed from Europeans to African-Americans on an Army base in the deep South.
