Directed by:
William DieterleCinematography:
Charles RosherComposer:
Herbert StothartCast:
Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Dan Seymour, Hugh Herbert, Joy Page, Florence Bates, Harry Davenport (more)VOD (1)
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Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in the days of the Arabian Nights. Posing as a prince, Colman woos Marlene Dietrich, the favorite wife of the evil Wazir (Edward Arnold). Meanwhile, Colman's daughter Joy Ann Page falls in love with handsome Caliph James Craig--while the Wazir connives to get Page into his own harem. Several plot convolutions later, Colman ends up with Dietrich, Page winds up with Craig, and the Wazir winds up six feet under. KISMET was based on the war-horse stage play by Edward Knoblock, previously filmed in 1920 and 1930 with the play's original star Otis Skinner. The title ORIENTAL DREAM was bestowed upon the 1944 KISMET when it was remade as a musical in 1955. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ronald Colman
UK
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Random Harvest (1942)
Marlene Dietrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Blue Angel (1930)
James Craig
USA
Best movies:
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Side Street (1950)
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Edward Arnold
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Frank Morgan
USA
Best movies:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Stratton Story (1949)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Dan Seymour
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Hugh Herbert
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Joy Page
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Conquest of Cochise (1953)
Florence Bates
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Rebecca (1940)
The Tall Target (1951)
Harry Davenport
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Little Women (1949)
Hobart Cavanaugh
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
The House of Fear (1945)
Robert Warwick
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Yvonne De Carlo
Canada
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Roots (1977) (series)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Mitchell Lewis
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Dale Van Sickel
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Minerva Urecal
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Charles Middleton
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Good Earth (1937)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Paul Bradley
USA
Best movies:
Giant (1956)
Gilda (1946)
Pretty Woman (1990)
John Maxwell
USA
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Nestor Paiva
USA
Best movies:
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)