| Carmen Jones | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Carmen_jones.jpeg) Theatrical release poster by Saul Bass | |
| Directed by | Otto Preminger |
| Screenplay by | Harry Kleiner |
| Based on | Carmen Jones by Oscar Hammerstein II |
| Produced by | Otto Preminger |
| Starring | Harry Belafonte Dorothy Dandridge Pearl Bailey Olga James Joe Adams |
| Cinematography | Sam Leavitt |
| Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
| Music by | Georges Bizet |
Production company | Otto Preminger Films |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $800,000 |
| Box office | $9.8 million[1] |
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. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is 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 Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
Carmen Jones was a CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color motion picture that had begun shooting within the first 12 months of Twentieth Century Fox's venture in 1953 to the widescreen format as its main production mode. 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.
In 1992, Carmen Jones was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2][3]
- ^ 'They've Gotta Have Us': A Brilliant History of Black Cinema
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
- ^ Wharton, Andy Marx,Dennis; Marx, Andy; Wharton, Dennis (1992-12-04). "Diverse pix mix picked". Variety. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
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