Films about the South: Carmen Jones.
Carmen Jones (1954) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.As the Second World War rages, parachute maker Carmen Jones wages her own quarrel involving an airman and a boxer. Using the score from Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, this adaptation by Oscar Hammerstein II resets the story with an all African-American cast, and is the first major New York revival since its debut on Broadway 75 years ago.Baldwin argues that the film Carmen Jones revolves around a parallel between “an amoral gypsy and an amoral Negro woman”; at the same time, it denies the charge that black people are amoral by making the black characters in the film seem white. The film is an adaptation of the 19th-century French opera Carmen with an all-black cast. Baldwin.
In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale.Taken from the famous Bizet opera, this classic film stars an all black cast. The movie sets in World War II where Carmen Jones, a sexy temptress whom is used to being wooed by many men, but only one catches her eye and that it Joe.
Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte, produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry.
