Last Remaining Seats: Carmen Jones (1954)
Jun 21, 2025 8 pm Get ticketsJoin LA Conservancy for their closing screening of CARMEN JONES, featuring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte!
A bold reimagining of Bizet’s opera, CARMEN JONES (1954) broke new ground by bringing Black voices to the forefront of Hollywood cinema. Directed by Otto Preminger with a screenplay by Oscar Hammerstein II, the film follows the passionate and beautiful Carmen—played by Dorothy Dandridge in a historic, Oscar-nominated performance—as she entangles a soldier, played by Harry Belafonte, in a tragic romance. Featuring Pearl Bailey and a vibrant all-Black cast, the film’s Technicolor brilliance and cultural impact continue to resonate as a landmark achievement in American film history.
$20 Members | $25 General Public | $10 Youth (17 and under)
Discounts are available for groups of 12 or more. Contact us at [email protected].
*Stay in your seat after the screening for a FREE Q&A about the historic Million Dollar Theatre.
CARMEN JONES (1954)
Saturday, June 21st, 8 p.m.
The Million Dollar
NR (Not rated)
Color/Digital
1 hr. 45 mins.
Image credit: Photofest / ©20th Century Fox
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About Last Remaining Seats
The L.A. Conservancy is thrilled to announce Last Remaining Seats’ 2025 return to L.A.’s Broadway historic theatre district with screenings at The Orpheum, The Million Dollar, and, for the first time in seven years, The United Theater on Broadway(formerly the United Artists Theatre)!
The Los Angeles Conservancy launched Last Remaining Seats in 1987 to draw attention to the spectacular yet overlooked and underused historic theatres of Los Angeles. The film series has since become an L.A. can’t-miss beloved summer tradition.
The LRS Committee helps plan our annual classic film series in historic theatres. It supports the Conservancy in selecting appropriate films for the series, creating and implementing the pre/post-film programming, events, and displays, and assisting with concessions and day-of programming needs.
The films in this series are presented as originally created during a different time period and may contain negative attitudes, language, and depictions of people and/or cultures. The Los Angeles Conservancy does not condone these representations.