---
title: 'Carmen Jones (1954)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Otto Preminger'
released: '1954-10-05'
runtime_minutes: 105
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/carmen-jones-1954'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046828/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Carmen Jones (1954)

1954 · 105 min · Drama, Music, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

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 Prosper Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Otto Preminger](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-preminger)
- **Producer:** [Otto Preminger](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-preminger)
- **Screenplay:** [Harry Kleiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-kleiner)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Bizet](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-bizet), [Dimitri Tiomkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/dimitri-tiomkin), [Herschel Burke Gilbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/herschel-burke-gilbert)
- **Director of Photography:** [Sam Leavitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-leavitt)
- **Editor:** [Louis R. Loeffler](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-r-loeffler)

## Cast

- [Harry Belafonte](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-belafonte)
- [Sandy Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/sandy-lewis)
- [Marilyn Horne](https://cinepixo.com/people/marilyn-horne)
- [Roy Glenn](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-glenn)
- [Nick Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/nick-stewart)
- [Bernie Hamilton](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernie-hamilton)
- [Joe Adams](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-adams)
- [Brock Peters](https://cinepixo.com/people/brock-peters)
- [DeForest Covan](https://cinepixo.com/people/deforest-covan)
- [Pearl Bailey](https://cinepixo.com/people/pearl-bailey)
- [Dorothy Dandridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-dandridge)
- [Diahann Carroll](https://cinepixo.com/people/diahann-carroll)
- [Alvin Ailey](https://cinepixo.com/people/alvin-ailey)
- [Sam McDaniel](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-mcdaniel)

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