Gipsy Blood (movie)
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Producer: Cecil Lewis
- Production companies: British International Pictures
- Genre: Music, Drama
- Release date: 10/30/1931
- Run time: 80 min.
Movie description
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.
