The Loves of Carmen

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The Loves of Carmen
Directed by	Charles Vidor
Starring	Rita Hayworth Glenn Ford
Music by	Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	1948
Running time	99 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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The Loves of Carmen was a 1948 Technicolor film starring Rita Hayworth as the gypsy Carmen and Glenn Ford as her doomed lover Don Jose. It was directed by Charles Vidor and released by Columbia Pictures. The film was publicized as a dramatic adaptation of the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée and is otherwise unrelated to Georges Bizet's opera of that name. This was the first film chosen and co-produced by Hayworth's production company, the Beckworth Corporation, which gave her approval over her material and a percentage of the film's profits.

As co-producer, Hayworth hired her father, the dancer Eduardo Cansino, to help choreograph the traditional Spanish dances. Also, her uncle José Cansino can be seen as her dance partner in one passage.

The musical score of the film was composed by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.