CARMEN JONES
CARMEN JONES" --- (1954) --- SYNOPSIS:
"The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to flying school. Conflict arises when a prize-ring champ captures the heart of Carmen after she has seduced Joe and caused him to go AWOL. Carmen remains a flamboyant flirt and ends up being strangled by the soldier."
STARRING:
Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Joe Adams and Diahnn Carroll
SCREENPLAY:
Harry Kleiner; 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 MƩrimƩe novella "Carmen" by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic HalƩvy.
MUSIC COMPOSED BY:
Georges Bizet, Herschel Burke Gilbert and Dimitri Tiomkin.
DIRECTOR:
Otto Preminger
AWARDS & OTHER HONORS:
It was nominated for two (2) Academy Awards but didn't win.
It was nominated for ten (10) additional awards, by various entities, and won four (4) of them.
In 1992, it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry at The Library of Congress.
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