Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
Otto Preminger has transferred it to the screen with taste and imagination in an opulent production.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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.
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Bosley Crowther, New York Times
A crazy mixed-up film.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies
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.
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Cast
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Dorothy Dandridgeas Carmen Jones -
Pearl Baileyas Frankie -
Harry Belafonteas Joe
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Diahann Carrollas Myrt -
Olga Jamesas Cindy Lou -
Nick Stewart [Nicodemus]as Dink Franks
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