Carmen Jones

Director: Otto Preminger

1954 / 105min / DCP

Carroll made her film debut as a part of the talent-packed all-Black cast of Preminger’s musical spectacular, which brings Oscar Hammerstein II’s World War II-era set reworking of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen to the screen in stunning Cinemascope compositions and sumptuous DeLuxe Color. Dorothy Dandridge, nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in the title role, brims with sultry sensuality playing a vixenish North Carolina factory worker whose feminine charms lure upright GI Harry Belafonte into an ultimately tragic romance.