<p>Actress-singer Olga James, who portrayed the jilted sweetheart of Harry Belafonte`s character in the landmark Otto Preminger-directed film musical Carmen Jones, is no more.</p>
<p>As per The Hollywood Reporter, James breathed her last on January 25. She was 95.</p>
<p>She died of complications from "a fall in which she broke her pelvis."</p>
<p>James also portrayed the fiancee of Sammy Davis Jr.`s struggling showbiz entertainer in the 1956-57 Broadway musical Mr. Wonderful, and she recurred as Verna Kincaid, the sister-in-law of Bill Cosby`s high school gym teacher, on the comedian`s eponymous 1969-71 NBC sitcom.</p>
<p>James had attended the Juilliard School of Music and was a trained opera singer when she was cast as the heartbroken Cindy Lou, who loses her troubled man, Joe (Belafonte), to the bewitching title character (Dorothy Dandridge) in 20th Century Fox`s Carmen Jones (1954), filmed in CinemaScope.</p>
<p>Carmen Jones transformed her into a sought-after nightclub performer, and in 1955, she made her first television appearance when Saperstein had her sing at halftime of a Globetrotters-Washington Generals game.</p>
<p>James played the supportive Ethel Pearson in Mr. Wonderful, which ran for 383 performances and also starred Jack Carter and Chita Rivera.</p>
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James played the supportive Ethel Pearson in Mr. Wonderful, which ran for 383 performances and also starred Jack Carter and Chita Rivera

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