the indebted, desperate nightclub singer in Robert Wise's #OddsAgainstTomorrow (both 1959), with Sidney Poitier as the eponymous #BuckAndThePreacher (1972), as gangster Seldom Seen in Robert Altman's #KansasCity (1996) and as Jerome Turner in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018).
#InMemoriam #RIP #CivilRights #Actor #Singer #Cinemastodon #CarmenJones #TheAngelLevine #FilmNoir
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#oddsagainsttomorrow #buckandthepreacher #kansascity #inmemoriam #rip #civilrights #actor #singer #cinemastodon #carmenjones #theangellevine #filmnoir
CARMEN is and has been one of the most discussed, debated, examined, dissected and reassembled, fascinating and enigmatic characters in opera. And will be so for years to come. Dorothy Dandridge added new dimension #CarmenJones #TCMParty
Carmenβs already thinking, βKid Poncho is hotterβ #CarmenJones #TCMParty
βEt maintenant, parlez mes belles / de lβavenir donnez-nous des nouvellesβ#CarmenJones #TCMParty
Lotta masculine pulchritude on Technicolor display here #CarmenJones #TCMParty
As my opera fan dad used to joke: βToreador, please donβt spit on the floor / Use the cuspidor / thatβs what itβs forβ¦β #CarmenJones #TCMParty
Some of the music is slightly out of order in #CarmenJones but it all still works. #TCMParty
Next to Carmen, my fave characters are her gal pals Mercedes and Frasquita, here Myrt (Diahann Carroll) and Frankie (Pearl Bailey). How could all this talent possibly fit into 35 mm?! #CarmenJones #TCMParty
#CarmenJones is terrific. A fine adaptation by Oscar Hammerstein with a glittering cast. #TCMParty