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Kismet is a 1955 American musical-comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Arthur Freed. It was filmed in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is the fifth movie version of Kismet.
A roguish poet pretends to help a scheming Wazir usurp the young caliph in this lavish and exotic film based on the music of Borodin. Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray and Vic Damone star in this tale of fate, love and comedy.
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- Adventure, Musical, Fantasy
- Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen
- 1955-12-23
Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli ("Gigi," "An American in Paris") directs this musical film version of the acclaimed Broadway production about a Baghdad poet who charms his way into the ...
A beggar and his daughter dream of marrying princes in ancient Baghdad, while the Caliph and the Grand Vizier plot to seize power. Kismet is a Technicolor film starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich, nominated for four Oscars.
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- Adventure, Fantasy
- William Dieterle
- 1944-10
Kismet is a 1944 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates. James Craig played the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Edward Arnold was the treacherous Grand Vizier .
A musical comedy adaptation of the play Kismet by Edward Knoblock, set in ancient Baghdad. Howard Keel stars as the "king of the beggars" who disguises himself as a caliph and falls in love with his daughter's suitor.