#the thief of Bagdad

[vietlad]

Steve Reeves in Il ladro di Bagdad (The Thief of Baghdad), 1961 dir. Arthur Lubin

[flypanegg88]

Jaffar<3

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Thief of Bagdad board game - Selchow & Righter (1940)

[usssnarfblat]

Art Imitates Live Action...

...and sometimes the other way around.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[pr0serpinaa]

A List of Dreamy Fairytale and Fantasy Films

Panna a netvor (Beauty and the Beast) (1979)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Tři oříšky pro Popelku (Three Wishes for Cinderella) (1973)

The Company of Wolves (1984)*

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)

Rusalochka (The Little Mermaid) (1976)

Lisova Pisnya (A Song of the Forest: Mavka) (1981 or 1983)

The Red Shoes (1948)

Ever After (1998)

Morozko (Jack Frost) (1964)

Soľ nad zlato (The Salt Prince) (1983)

Legend (1985)

Deváté srdce (The Ninth Heart) (1979)

Labyrinth (1986)

Peau d’Âne (Donkyskin) (1970)

Ashik Kerib (The Lovelorn Minstrel) (1988)

*The Company of Wolves is also a horror movie (and as such is rated R), so this is something to keep in mind if you are sensitive to certain themes

[thealmightyemprex]

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking

@the-blue-fairie @countesspetofi @princesssarisa

@filmcityworld1 @barbossas-wench @amalthea9

[theatrepup]

Conrad Veidt discusses his life and career coming full circle:

"Twenty-five years of playing the characters I have played. From the demon in my first film, through The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari up to and including A Woman's Face...most of the men I have played have not been quite of this earth. This, maybe, reflects in my expression in the movement of my hands, in my walk. So, I become a bit abnormal to other people. There is another idea I have...it is true I think, that, after awhile in every life, there is something very like a circle. My first part on the screen, I have said, was a so-called demon. This was in 1916 or 1918. In 1939, I made The Thief of Bagdad which is the same sort of person....But there are also larger aspects...I began life as a fat, ugly baby. There is nothing very sinister in that. I have told you what I now am, in my private life, how I like to sit in the sun, and just sit...how I read, play golf, go to the films, control my temper, worry as other men worry...so now I will show you how the circle completes itself: my ideal has always been a farm. Since childhood I have wanted to have a farm, not too big, a few cows, a few chickens, things growing, barnyard sounds. That is what, one day now, I shall have. So now I look in the mirror and I see...the fat baby, who became the man with the wicked eyes, who became the fat baby again, who became a farmer! (Mr. Veidt laughs) That's completing the circle. And in completing the circle the face in the mirror is, I submit, accounted for--in full!" (Silver Screen magazine, 1941)

https://archive.org/details/SSsept1941/mode/2up?view=theater

[piratevaleen]

Conrad Veidt and June Duprez in The Thief of Bagdad, 1940 dir. Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan

[praguehead]

various still from The Thief of Baghdad

(1940)

[dontbestingybaby]

Anna May Wong in costume from The Thief of Bagdad (1924) from Picture-Play, February 1924

[vietlad]

Steve Reeves in Il ladro di Bagdad (The Thief of Baghdad), 1961 dir. Arthur Lubin

[love-pinups]

While June Duprez’s beauty cannot be denied, there was something very special and specific about her look in the 1940 fantasy classic, “The Thief of Baghdad”. Cinematography, makeup / hair, and costuming all came together to produce a character whose beauty stands the test of time.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

[suchamiracle-does-exist]

Evolution of Conrad Veidt 🎬

Thanks @matthew-garth for suggesting the idea and music 🫰🏻

Such a miracle does exist on TikTok

[bitter69uk]

Born 100 years ago today: Indian actor Sabu (Sabu Dastagir, 27 January 1924 – 2 December 1963). The doe-eyed and beauteous Sabu is particularly notable for being perhaps the sole Asian and Muslim major celebrity of Golden Age Hollywood. As with Chinese American star Anna May Wong in the twenties and thirties, the prejudiced dictates of the era limited the types of roles Sabu could play (in the Production Code there could be no hint of interracial romances depicted onscreen, for example) and he continued to portray “primitive” child-of-the-Islands stereotypes well into his thirties. (This is not meant as a diss on Sabu – he performed these parts with genuine aplomb and innate dignity). His most celebrated films include The Thief of Bagdad (1940), The Jungle Book (1942) and Black Narcissus (1947) but perversely, my favourite is camp classic Cobra Woman (1944) starring "the Caribbean Cyclone" Maria Montez – perhaps because Sabu cavorts in little more than a loincloth throughout. Sadly, Sabu died aged just 39 of heart disease.