![[Book #151628] Carmen Jones. Otto Preminger, Georges Bizet, Oscar Hammerstein II, Harry Kleiner, Dorothy Dandridge Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, director, music, book, screenwriter, starring.](https://royalbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/151628_01.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674021247)
Carmen Jones
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954. Collection of 43 vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 film.
Loosely based on the 1943 musical, an all-Black stage adaptation of Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen," which was in turn based on Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy's 1845 novella. A parachute factory worker (Dorothy Dandridge) has a reputation for promiscuous behavior, but finds herself obsessed with the one man she cannot have: Joe, an engaged army officer.
Set in North Carolina.
10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine.
National Film Registry. BFI 611.
[Book #151628]
Price: $2,200.00