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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 ...
Olga James (born February 16, 1929) is an American singer and actress best known for her role in the film Carmen Jones (1954). Her later acting credits include a role in the Broadway musical Mr. Wonderful and a recurring role on The Bill Cosby Show.
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954). [1]
In 1954 Adams played boxer "Husky Miller" in the award-winning "Carmen Jones" film opera featuring an all-black cast headed by Best Actress Oscar-nominee Dorothy Dandridge. On stage, Adams had the role of Joe Nashua in the Broadway musical Jamaica (1957).
Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera Carmen updated to a World War II-era, African-American setting.
Credited as Elizabeth Taylor, she had roles in the Broadway musicals Mr. Wonderful, Shinbone Alley, and was an original cast member of West Side Story. [1] Taylor also appeared in the Off-Broadway productions of Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess. [2] At the peak of her career, she left Broadway to marry jazz musician Miles Davis. [3]
He also had a role in the movie Carmen Jones. Stewart's final acting role would be returning to Disney to reprise the voice role Br'er Bear for the Disneyland attraction Splash Mountain (1989–2023), [24] based on the animated segments of Song of the South. He was the only actor to return and voice his character from the aforementioned movie. [25]
Carmen Jones: Husky Miller Off-Broadway, Classic Stage Company AUDELCO Award nomination, Featured Actor in a Musical. 2019 Big River [53] Jim Rubicon Theatre Company: 2020 The Unsinkable Molly Brown: J.J. Brown Off-Broadway, Transport Group Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Actor in a Musical. 2021 A Turtle on a Fence Post: Z Off ...