Song of Scheherazade

Song of Scheherazade
1947 Theatrical Poster
Directed byWalter Reisch
Written byWalter Reisch
Produced byEdward Kaufman
Edward Dodds
StarringYvonne De Carlo
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Eve Arden
Brian Donlevy
Charles Kullman (as Charles Kullmann)
Elena Verdugo
Phillip Reed
John Qualen
George Dolenz
CinematographyHal Mohr
William V. Skall
Edited byFrank Gross
Music byNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Miklós Rózsa
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • February 26, 1947 (1947-02-26) (New York City)
  • March 1947 (1947-03) (United States)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.1 million (US rentals)[1]
2,802,722 admissions (France)[2]

Song of Scheherazade is a 1947 American musical film directed by Walter Reisch. It tells the story of an imaginary episode in the life of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont), in 1865, when he was a young naval officer on shore leave in Morocco. It also features Yvonne De Carlo as a Spanish dancer named Cara de Talavera, Eve Arden as her mother, and Brian Donlevy as the ship's captain. Charles Kullman (credited as Charles Kullmann), a tenor with the Metropolitan Opera, plays the ship's doctor, Klin, who sings two of Rimsky-Korsakov's melodies.

  1. ^ "Top Grossers of 1947" Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
  2. ^ French box office of 1948 at Box Office Story