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KISMET
USA 1944. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., controlled by Loew's
Inc.
Released through Loew's Inc.
CAST:
Ronald Colman (Hafiz); Marlene Dietrich (Jamilla);
James Craig (Caliph); Edward Arnold (Mansur,
the Grand Vizier); Hugh Herbert (Feisal);
Joy Ann Page (Marsinah); Florence Bates (Karsha);
Harry Davenport (Agha); Hobart Cavanaugh (Moolah);
Robert Warwick (Alfife); Frank Morgan (Narrator);
Julian Oliver, Victor Dubinsky, Saul Silverman,
Herman Heller, Gabriel Leonoff (Singers);
Beatrice and Evelyne Kraft (Court dancers);
Barry Macollum (Amu); Victor Killian (Jehan);
Charles Middleton (The miser); Harry Humphrey
(Gardener); Nestor Paiva (Captain of police);
Roque Ybarra (Son of the miser); Eve Whitney
(Café girl); Minerva Urecal (Retainer);
Joe Yule (Attendant); Morgan Wallace; Frank
Penny, Pete Cusanelli (Merchants); John
Maxwell (Guard); Walter de Palma (Detective);
Jimmy Ames (Major Domo); Cy Kendall
(Herald); Charles La Torre (Alwah);
Marek Windheim (Sapu); Noble Blake (Nubian
slave); Anna Demetrio (Café owner);
Dan Seymour (Fat Turk); Mitchell Lewis (Sheik);
Phiroz Nazir, Asit Gosh (Nabout fighters);
Carmen d'Antonio (Dancer in café);
Joyce Gates, Jessie Tai Sing, Zedra Conde,
Barbara Glenz, Frances Ramsden (Café girls);
Charles Judels (Rich merchant); Dale van Sickel
(Assassin); Harry Cording, Sammy Stein,
Joseph Granby Ranby(Policemen); Gabriel Gonzales
(Monkey man); Bruno Weise (Pole act);
Zack Williams (Executioner); John Merton,
Dick Botiller, Jack "Tiny" Lipson (Mansur
aides); Eddie Abdo (Mansur aide / Arabic
Prayer voice); Billy Cummings (Arabic Prayer
voice); Lynne Arlen, Leslie Anthony, Rosalyn
Lee, Sonia Carr, Carla Boehm, Eileen Herric,
Shelby Payne (Queen's retinue); Paul Singh
(Caliph's valet); Pedro de Cordoba (Muezzin);
Paul Bradley (Magician); Louis Manley (Fire-eater);
John Vernon Schaller, Ramiro Rivas, William Rivas
(Jugglers).
CREDITS:
William Dieterle (Director); Everett
Riskin (Producer); Marvin Stuart (Assistant
Director); John Meehan (Scenarist);
Charles Rosher (Photographer); John Nickolaus,
Jr. (Second Cameraman); Warren Newcombe (Special
Effects); Mark Davis (Special Effects Cameraman);
A. Arnold Gillespie (Miniatures, Special photographic
effects, Transparency Shots); Natalie Kalmus
(Technicolor Color Director); Henri Jaffa (Associate
Technical Color Director); Cedric Gibbons,
Daniel B. Cathcart, Preston Ames (Art Directors);
Ben Lewis (Editor); Edwin B. Willis (Set
Decorator); Richard Pefferle (Associate Set
Decorator); Costume Supervision by Irene; Costume
Execution by Karinska; Herbert Stothart (Musical
Score); Murray Cutter (Orchestral Collaboration);
Jack Cole (Dance director); Janett Bate (Assistant
dance director); Douglas Shearer (Sound Recorder);
James Z. Flaster (Unit mixer); Standish J.
Lambert, Frank B. Mackenzie, Robert W. Shierley,
Newell Sparks, William Steinkamp, Michael Steinore,
John A. Williams (Rerecording and Effects mixer);
M.J. McLaughlin, Herbert Stahlberg (Music mixer);
Jack Dawn (Make-up); Sydney Guilaroff
(Hair stylist); Victor Stoloff (Technical
Advisor); Doreen Tryden (Singing Double for
Joy Ann Page); based on the play by Edward Knobloch.
SONGS: "Tell
Me, Tell Me, Evening Star", "Willow
in the Wind" by Harold Arlen (Music) and E.Y.
Harbourg (Lyrics).
Technicolor. 2,740 meters, 101 minutes
Production Dates: October 23rd — December 31st
1943.
Premiere: August 22nd 1944, Astor Theatre,
New York.
Oscar Nominations 1944 (17th): Art Direction:
(Color): Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Cathcart;
Cinematography (Color): Charles Rosher;
Interior Decoration (Color): Edwin B. Willis,
Richard Pefferle;
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture):
Herbert Stothart; Sound Recording: Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer (Sound
Director).
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