Gipsy Blood(1931)

Name: Gipsy Blood
Director: Cecil Lewis
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1931-01-01
Duration: 80 min
Cast: Marguerite Namara, Thomas F. Burke, Lance Fairfax, Lester Matthews, Mary Clare

Marguerite Namara Thomas F. Burke Lance Fairfax Lester Matthews Mary Clare

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.