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Plot

Parachute maker Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge) makes a play for a soldier named Joe (Harry Belafonte), who is in love with sweet Cindy Lou (Olga James). After meeting boxer Husky Miller (Joe Adams), she is asked along with her friends Frankie (Pearl Bailey) and Mert (Diahann Carroll), to go to a boxing match with them. She declines. She eventually gets bored with Joe and leaves. Later, Carmen abandons Joe to pursue Husky Miller. She accepts his invitation to go to his boxing match. Joe then abandons Cindy to pursue Carmen; when she rejects him, he kills her. Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922–September 8, 1965) was an American actress. ... Harold George Belafonte, Jr. ... Joe Adams was a well known mercenary and drug smuggler who led the Contra rebellion in Nicaragua on behalf of the US CIA. He was indicted in Iran-Contra for violating the neutrality act and waging war on a foreign nation without the approval of Congress, convicted, sentenced to one... Pearl Bailey in “St. ... Diahann Carroll, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935) is an American actress and singer. ...

Awards and acclaim

• The motion picture won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture—Musical and star Dorothy Dandridge was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, the first African-American so honored. Halle Berry, who played Dandridge in the biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, which included a re-enactment of one of the film's famed scenes, was the first African-American actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film Monster's Ball.
• The film has also been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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Cast

Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey in Carmen Jones (1954)

• Carmen Jones - Dorothy Dandridge, sung by Marilyn Horne
• Joe - Harry Belafonte, sung by LeVern Hutcherson
• Husky Miller - Joe Adams, sung by Marvin Hayes
• Cindy Lou - Olga James
• Frankie - Pearl Bailey
• Mert- Diahann Carroll
• Sergeant Brown - Brock Peters
• Carmen's Grandmother - Madame Sul-Te-Wan

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External link

• Carmen Jones at the Internet Movie Database