Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:British International Pictures
Gipsy Blood
In 1931 Sir Malcolm Sargent then a rising young conductor acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimées classic story of passion and fatal jealousy Carmen With a score based on Bizets opera Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory her coperformers include Thomas Burke as Carmens tormented lover Don José and New Zealandborn baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival the toreador Escamillo
DirectorCecil Lewis
