- The Loves of Carmen
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director =Charles Vidor
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starring =Rita Hayworth Glenn Ford
music =Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
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distributor =Columbia Pictures
released =23 August 1948
runtime = 99 min.
country =U.S.A.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0040552"The Loves of Carmen" (1948) is a
Technicolor film starringRita Hayworth as the gypsyCarmen andGlenn Ford as her doomed lover Don José. It was directed byCharles Vidor and released byColumbia Pictures . The film was publicized as a dramatic adaptation of the novella "Carmen" byProsper Mérimée and is otherwise unrelated toGeorges Bizet 'sopera "Carmen ".This was the first film chosen and co-produced by Hayworth's production company, the Beckworth Corporation, which gave her approval over her material and a percentage of the film's profits. As co-producer, Hayworth hired her father, the dancer Eduardo Cansino, to help choreograph the traditional Spanish dances. Also, her uncle José Cansino can be seen as her dance partner in one scene, and her brother Vernon Cansino has a
bit part as a soldier.The musical score of the film was composed by
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco .Other cinema versions are realized in the
Silent Cinema , in 1917 withPola Negri , and in 1927 withDolores del Rio .External links
*imdb title|id=0040552|title=The Loves of Carmen
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