LA ROSA DI BAGDAD - Italy 1949 Technicolor, 1952/1967(?) Dub

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LA ROSA DI BAGDAD

http://www.avofilm.it/dvdr/9068.html

was directed by Anton Gino Domeneghini and finally completed in 1949 in Italy after several years of work.


The same year I FRATELLI DINAMITE

http://www.fiafnet.org/es/news/shownews.cfm?id=104

by Toni and Nino Pagot was released in Italy after a similar time of production. So these two movies together deserve the entry in movie history as the first full-length Italian animated feature films produced in Technicolor.


Although I FRATELLI DINAMITE never seem to have had forein language versions and worldwide distribution (the Italian DVD has English subs btw), it’s different with Domeneghinis film.


In 1952 LA ROSA DI BAGDAD was dubbed into English in Britain and released in the UK as THE ROSE OF BAGDAD. Then 17-year-old Julie Andrews provided the voice for the princess, far away from My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins. It is said that Howard Marion Crawford, perhaps best remembered as Nayland Smiths‘ comrade Dr. Petrie in the British 60s FU MAN CHU series starring Christopher Lee, was the English narrator. In 1952 also a German dub was produced and released as DIE ROSE VON BAGDAD aka DER ZAUBERER UND DIE PRINZESSIN (The Magician and the Princess). The German dub seems to be a lost film today.


It took until 1967 for LA ROSA DI BAGDAD to get its release in the US, now re-titeled as THE SINGING PRINCESS. The advertising promoted Julie Andrews, who was at the height of her career by then. So one would think, the 1952 British dub was used for the 1967 American release. But Crawford as narrotor is said to have been replaced by Boris Karloff in 1967 uncredited.

http://www.kiddiematinee.com/s-sprincess.html


So who knows exactly about THE ROSE OF BAGDAD and THE SINGING PRINCESS ? Are there two different English versions existing which just have in common Julie Andrews or just differ by Crawford/Karloff ? Is there really a Crawford and a Karloff narration existing ? Does anybody have full lists of the English voice actors ? I only have an almost complete list of the Italian cast.