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Kismet: Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen. With Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone. A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
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- Adventure, Musical, Fantasy
- Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen
- 1955-12-23
Lalume hides Marsinah in the harem for her own protection, but there the Caliph sees her and believes her to be a wife of the Wazir. When the Wazir privately congratulates the Poet on bringing the Caliph's true love into the Wazir's own harem, the Poet realizes that the Caliph is Marsinah's beloved.
Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief (Jay C. Flippen) and a dim-witted wazir (Sebastian Cabot) and his wife (Dolores Gray).
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- Howard Keel
- Vincente Minnelli
- Fantasy
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 roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir’s harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph. Kismet (The will of Allah), is the story of a young Caliph who falls in love with the beautiful Marsinah poet’s daughter, in ancient Baghdad.
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Vincente Minnelli
Bernie Hamilton. A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph. Kismet (The will of Allah), is the story of a young Caliph who falls in love with the beautiful Marsinah poet's daughter, in ancient Baghdad. Origin : Stranger in Paradise is a popular English song.
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Jan 27, 2017 · Magicians and caliphs, poets and lovers, all involved in Arabian Nights-style romantic intrigues: the ideal material, one would have thought, for a full-blown exotic musical.
