Gipsy Blood
1931 · 80 min · Music, Drama
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s 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 Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
- Director
- Cecil Lewis
- Writers
- Prosper Mérimée, Walter C. Mycroft, Cecil Lewis
- Released
- October 30, 1931
- Language
- English
Cast
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