Carmen Jones
This program is presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Dorothy Dandridge. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
Carmen Jones (1954)
Roles for this dynamic “all Black” version of Georges Bizet’s opera and Oscar Hammerstein’s musical were sought after by most Black actors in Hollywood. Director Otto Preminger thought Dandridge was right for the role of good girl Cindy Lou. With the help of her sister and mother, Dandridge put on new clothes, earrings, a walk and a demeanor to convince Preminger that she could play the seductive, red-hot Carmen Jones. “My God, it’s Carmen!” Preminger is said to have declared when he saw her transformation.
DCP. Director: Otto Preminger. Screenwriter: Harry Kleiner. With: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey.
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