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Which performers starred in the all-Black cast of Carmen Jones?
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Film director Otto Preminger, 1976.
The 1954 film Carmen Jones, directed by Otto Preminger, featured an all-Black cast that included the following prominent performers:
Dandridge starred in the title role, for which she became the first African American to receive an Academy Award nomination for best actress, though her singing in the film was dubbed by mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.123