Carmen Jones
Carmen Jones is an adaptation of Bizet's legendary opera, Carmen. It tells the story of a young, free spirited woman called Carmen Jones whose great beauty is the object of many men's desires. However, Carmen sets her sights on young army officer Joe, who is engaged to his sweetheart, Cindy Lou. Joe quickly succumbs to Carmen's charms , forsaking his Cindy Lou, thus beginning the tragic love story.
3 June 1914, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA
12 June 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 July 1935, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
2 January 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 March 1918, Newport News, Virginia, USA
16 January 1934, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA
11 April 1922, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 31, 1935 in Santa Monica, California, USA
9 November 1922, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2 July 1927, New York City, New York, USA
January 5, 1931 in Rogers, Texas, USA
19 April 1914, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
October 01, 2009
A film in which talented, attractive people sing ugly lyrics to beautiful music in other people's beautiful voices amid ugly shot framing and ill-timed cutting.
October 23, 2007
Preminger's heavy-handed adaptation of a Broadway triumph combines gorgeous music with risible lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; the project is saved by a terrific cast.
February 09, 2006
The somewhat heavy-handed direction and the ultimately two-dimensional characters leave you admiring the workmanship without plucking at the necessary emotional/romantic heart-strings.
February 10, 2007
Every frame, you feel, is freighted with the tension imposed by the never-appearing white folks. It was, however, laudable in its desire to showcase the talents of African-American performers who were denied opportunities in Hollywood.
December 17, 2013
If you're not a fan of opera, you probably won't care much for 'Carmen Jones,' despite some pretty solid acting and scenes that bring postwar America to life.
October 23, 2007
Impeccably liberal in its time, the film has not aged gracefully, although Dorothy Dandridge's performance in the lead remains a testimony to a black cinema that might have been.
July 14, 2010
Dorothy Dandridge became the very first black woman to receive Best Actress Oscar nomination for Otto Preimger's audacious (for the early 1950s) all-black musical of the famous opera.
May 20, 2003
A crazy mixed-up film.
January 27, 2008
Electric performance by Dorothy Dandridge as the sultry whorish Carmen Jones.
February 09, 2007
Woefully miscast in places and extremely dubious in its portrayal of African-Americans but does boast an on-form Dorothy Dandridge.
October 23, 2007
Otto Preminger has transferred it to the screen with taste and imagination in an opulent production.
February 10, 2007
The best reason to revisit Carmen Jones lies in Dorothy Dandridge's electrifying performance, which saw her become the first African-American to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
