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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…
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Otto Preminger earned his place in the history of cinema by his willingness to push the envelope and defy limits considered acceptable in 1950s and 1960s Hollywood films. A prime example can be found in *Carmen Jones*, a 1954 musical, known as one of the first major Hollywood productions to feature an all-black cast, made in an era when much of the USA was still under institutional racial discrimination. The film is…More
