The Loves of Carmen is a 1948 American adventure drama romance film directed by Charles Vidor.

The film stars Rita Hayworth as the gypsy Carmen and Glenn Ford as her doomed lover Don José.

It is a remake of the 1927 film of the same name, which was directed by Raoul Walsh and stars Dolores del Río and Victor McLaglen.

In Spain, during the early nineteenth century, Don Jose Lizarabengoa arrives in Seville to begin service as a corporal in the Spanish dragoons.

[3] (Orson Welles had pitched a version of Carmen to Cohn starring Paulette Goddard suggesting they go back to the original novel, saying Prosper Mérimée was the James Cain of his time.)

As co-producer, Hayworth hired her father, the dancer Eduardo Cansino, to help choreograph the traditional Spanish dances.

The New York Times review focused mostly on Hayworth’s performance: “With all due regard to for Rita Hayworth’s abundant and evident charms, bestowed upon her by nature and the make-up department equally, it must be surmised that she simply hasn’t got what it takes to play the role of Carmen, Prosper Merimée’s classic gypsy vamp.

For an emptier lot of posturing and posing, of slinging hips and general emoting of passion you’re never likely to see that that indulged by Miss Hayworth....the slattern conceived by Merimée is a lacquered and lifeless creature in this stagey and stolid charade.

And the Don Jose of the novel, who was a contemptible stuffed-shirt, is here a mopish fall-guy in the performance of Glenn Ford.”[10] In 1954, Hayworth sued Columbia for a financial accounting over this and three other movies she made through Beckworth, Affair in Trinidad, Miss Sadie Thompson, and Salome.