I was just a little ingénue.” Image Ms. James with Harry Belafonte in a publicity photo for “Carmen Jones.” She did her own singing; his singing voice and Dorothy Dandridge’s were dubbed ...

For the reader who wants to know from a review only if the film is worth seeing, Carmen Jones presents no problem: see the picture. It is an experiment and it is largely unsuccessful. But even its ...

It was while performing in the revue that she got an audition for Preminger’s Carmen Jones, an all-Black musical based on Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, landing the role of Cindy Lou ...