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November 18 – November 24, 2023
BY JAY BOBBIN
TCM recalls the impact of Harry Belafonte
During his very full life, Harry Belafonte was many things, personally and professionally. And being an actor was one of them. The entertainer and activist didn’t make a lot of films, relatively speaking, but those he did make generally had social undercurrents — not surprising for someone who was so concerned with the world around him. Following his death last April at age 96, Turner Classic Movies pays tribute to him with a double feature on Sunday, Nov. 19: “Carmen Jones” (1954) will be followed by “The World, the Flesh and the Devil” (1959). The Otto Preminger-directed “Carmen Jones” was Belafonte’s second movie, revising the Bizet opera “Carmen” with Dorothy Dandridge in the title role of a much-desired wartime parachute factory employee who sets her sights on an already engaged soldier (Belafonte). It’s interesting that despite his famous singing skills, Belafonte took the opportunity to be dubbed by another vocalist (Le Vern Hutcherson), who was more accomplished specifically in the
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operatic realm. The cast also includes Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters and Diahann Carroll. Directed and co-written by Ranald McDougall (who was married to second wife Nanette Fabray at the time), “The World, the Flesh and the Devil” came shortly before Belafonte took a break from moviemaking for roughly a decade, casting him as a miner who is one of the relative handful of people to survive a nuclear holocaust. Indeed, the picture has only two other actors, Inger Stevens and Mel Ferrer. As their characters try to adjust to an otherwise empty New York (filmed very early each work day, before the city’s usual population began filling the streets), racial tensions eventually surface among them. In a way, the Nov. 19 evening actually will be TCM’s second salute to Belafonte this year. Last July, his daughter Shari Belafonte served as a guest programmer on the channel, and her choices included her father’s 1959 feature “Odds Against Tomorrow.” His subsequent screen credits would
include a couple of teamings with his close friend Sidney Poitier — “Buck and the Preacher” and “Uptown Saturday Night” (both of which also included Poitier as a director) — and a cameo as himself in Robert Altman’s Hollywood satire “The Player.” Belafonte and the movies will be connected again in the near future, since he is the subject of the forthcoming documentary “Following Harry,” previewed via some advance footage at last June’s Tribeca Film Festival. While filming it, director Susanne Rostock (who also made the 2011 Belafonte profile “Sing My Song”) enabled him to reflect on the change he hoped to bring about in America … though he questioned how much he had accomplished. Many admirers believe Belafonte achieved a considerable amount during his lifetime; TCM clearly does, too, as evidenced by the salute
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