Carmen Jones (film)
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Theatrical release poster by Saul Bass
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| Directed by | Otto Preminger |
| Produced by | Otto Preminger |
| Written by | Harry Kleiner Based on a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II |
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Harry Belafonte Dorothy Dandridge Pearl Bailey Olga James Joe Adams |
| Music by | Georges Bizet |
| Cinematography | Sam Leavitt |
| Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9.8 million |
Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte, produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the libretto for the 1943 stage production of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was inspired by an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Hammerstein also wrote the lyrics to music composed by Georges Bizet for his 1875 opera Carmen.
Carmen Jones was a CinemaScope motion picture that had begun shooting within the first 12 months of Twentieth Century Fox's venture in 1953 to CinemaScope Technicolor as its main production mode. The historical costume drama, the western and the war film had filled Fox's production schedule and this all-black musical drama based on an established and popular opera would surely be a box-office success, as proved true. Carmen Jones was released in October 1954, exactly one year and one month after Fox's first CinemaScope venture, the Biblical epic The Robe, had opened in theatres.
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