I find Dandridge's performance wonderful. She took the screen away and presented Carmen Jones to a T. If it wasn't for her performance, the bar wouldn't have been set for the 1st Black woman nominated for an Academy Award as best actress. That's history and was made by a robust woman. Dorothy Dandridge did an extraordinary job and reached a whole new height that no other African American had went before. She convinced me that she was in fact the tempetuous femme fetale, Carmen Jones. I've noticed that some are racist and think that a black cast should not have been made and to leave it to the Spainards, well here is a news flash, there is always someone bigger and badder, that can do it better.
Review of Carmen Jones
