Gipsy Blood

Gipsy Blood (1931)

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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

Casts

	Marguerite Namara as Carmen
	Thomas F. Burke as Don Jose
	Lance Fairfax as Escamillo
	Lester Matthews as Zuniga
	Dennis Wyndham as Doncairo
	Mary Clare as Factory Girl
	Hay Petrie as Remenado
	Victor Fairley as
	Lewin Mannering as Innkeeper
	Winifred Dalle as
	Virginia Perry as
	Charlton Morton as
	Esme Beringer as
	Elsa Brunelleschi as

Crew