Word: carmen
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...Carmen's Friends...
...Carmen has been filmed at least ten times, but moviegoers have by no means seen the last of the wench. A Manhattan theater is currently showing an Argentine-made version. A U.S. producer is toying with the idea, and Britain's Alexander Korda has announced a forthcoming Carmen with Paulette Goddard in the lead...
...turns out in the film, the story involves a young widow, Vivian Rutledge (Bacall) and a mysteriously all-knowing private dick by the name of Marlowe (Bogart). Marlowe is hired to investigate the facts behind the blackmailing of Vivian's maniae young sister Carmen; but as he investigates, he unearths mystery after mystery and murder after murder instead of mere blackmail. Amidst the razzle-dazzle, the spectator knows nothing except that Marlowe is never surprised...
Divorced. (Francis) Xavier Cugat, 46, Spanish-born bandleader who made the U.S. rumba-constious; by Carmen Castillo Cugat, 40, aunt of Actress Margo; after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...Lively Performance." Dr. Koussevitzky had commissioned Peter Grimes in memory of his late wife, and he proudly proclaimed it the greatest opera since Carmen. He did not conduct its U.S. première, but left it to his prize protégé, Manhattan's Leonard Bernstein. The crowd in Tanglewood's barnlike opera theater got three hours of violent and raw emotion, and agreed that in plot, at least, Peter Grimes had much in common with Bizet's lurid tale of smuggling and murder...