Carmen
Director: Cecil Lewis
Cast: Dennis Wyndham, Hay Petrie, Lance Fairfax, Lester Matthews, Lewin Mannering, Marguerite Namara, Mary Clare, Thomas F. Burke
Synopsis:
Cast: Dennis Wyndham, Hay Petrie, Lance Fairfax, Lester Matthews, Lewin Mannering, Marguerite Namara, Mary Clare, Thomas F. Burke
Synopsis:
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent then a rising young conductor acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimées classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizets opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmens tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
