| Kismet | |
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| Directed by | William Dieterle |
| Screenplay by | John Meehan |
| Based on | Kismet 1911 play by Edward Knoblock |
| Produced by | Everett Riskin |
| Starring | Ronald Colman Marlene Dietrich James Craig Edward Arnold |
| Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
| Edited by | Ben Lewis |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Color process | Technicolor |
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| Distributed by | Loew's, Inc |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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. It was directed by William Dieterle, but was not a success at the box office. Dieterle had directed Dietrich two decades before in the German silent film Man by the Wayside, which was both the first role in which Dietrich was cast competitively and Dieterle's directorial debut.
The film is based on the play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, which was also the basis for a 1953 musical. The play had been filmed three times before, in 1914, 1920, and again in 1930 by Warner Brothers in an English version directed by John Francis Dillon and in a German-language version directed by William Dieterle that was released in 1931.