With Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme hitting theaters nationwide on June 6th, the time is right for The Criterion ...

K and Blu-ray must-haves of June 2025 include J-horror obscurities, and films from Paul Schrader, Terry Gilliam, and William ...

The biggest and best Blu-ray releases of the month, including new films by Steven Soderbergh and Bong Joon Ho.

Special guests in venue this month will include Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox and series producer Nick Freand Jones, filmmaker Peter Strickland, and Psychoville actors Steve Pemberton and Reece ...

The current cast of Chicago features Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Dylis Croman as Roxie Hart, Rema Webb as Matron "Mama" Morton, Max von Essen as Billy Flynn, Raymond Bokhour as Amos Hart ...

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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The current cast of Chicago features Erika ...

Olga James, the singer, actress and nightclub performer who portrayed the jilted sweetheart of Harry Belafonte’s character in the landmark Otto Preminger-directed film musical Carmen Jones ...

Olga James in the film 'Carmen Jones' (1954) John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Olga James, the singer and actor who costarred with Harry Belafonte in Otto Preminger’s ...

Managed by Abe Saperstein, owner of basketball’s Harlem Globetrotters, James — who spoke Italian, French and German — sang an aria for Preminger during her Carmen Jones audition at the Alvin ...

the 1943 “race” version “Carmen Jones,” with its all-Black cast and WWII setting; a 2001 film “Carmen: A Hip Hopera,” starring Beyoncé; and others set in Senegal and South Africa.

Carmen, a factory worker, falls in love with a soldier. Show more Bizet's evocative music blends with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II in this drama, set in mid-20th-century USA for an African ...