Song of Scheherazade
| Song of Scheherazade | |
|---|---|
1947 Theatrical Poster | |
| Directed by | Walter Reisch |
| Written by | Walter Reisch |
| Produced by | Edward Kaufman Edward Dodds |
| Starring | Yvonne De Carlo Jean-Pierre Aumont Eve Arden Brian Donlevy Charles Kullman (as Charles Kullmann) Elena Verdugo Phillip Reed John Qualen George Dolenz |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr William V. Skall |
| Edited by | Frank Gross |
| Music by | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Miklós Rózsa |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.1 million (US rentals) 2,802,722 admissions (France) |
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.