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Gipsy Blood (1931)
Directed by Cecil Lewis
Overview
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.
Length 80 minutes
Actors
Marguerite Namara | Thomas F. Burke | Lance Fairfax | Lester Matthews | Mary Clare | Lewin Mannering | Hay Petrie | Dennis Wyndham