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pictory: Debra Paget as Persian Princess
03-Oct-2008
Debra Paget IS Persian Royalty in "Omar Khayyam" 1957 classic movie.
Plot Summary: Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
Directed by: William Dieterle
Produced by: Frank Freeman Jr.
Costume Design by: Ralph Jester
Cast overview, first billed only:
Cornel Wilde .... Omar Khayyam
Michael Rennie .... Hasani Sabah
Debra Paget .... Sharain
John Derek .... Young Prince Malik
Raymond Massey .... The Shah
Yma Sumac .... Karina
Margaret Hayes .... Queen Zarada
Joan Taylor .... Yaffa
Sebastian Cabot .... The Nizam
Perry Lopez .... Prince Ahmud
Morris Ankrum .... Imam Nowaffak
Abraham Sofaer .... Tutush
Edward Platt .... Jayhan
James Griffith .... Buzorg
Peter Adams .... Master Herald
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Only One True Persian Princess
by Ma'at (not verified) on Wed Oct 08, 2008 07:46 PM PDTI don't know what this is all about but I do know that in my heart there is, and will forever be, only one true Persian Princess. She is a daughter (descendant)of Cyrus the Great and his grandson Xerxes by his wife Esther. She is known as Nazanin Afshin Jam. No, she did not put me up to this and she doesn't even know I said this. So, don't tell her. :)
Samarkand ;0)
by Darius Kadivar on Fri Oct 03, 2008 05:28 AM PDTAbsolutely and it also written in an interesting way linking the plot to other major historical events like the Constitutional Revolution of 1906.
It would make a great movie if directed by someone with a real cinematographic eye and insight into things Iranian and Western. I wish someone like Bernardo Bertollucci ( The Last Emperor, Last Tango in Paris ) would have directed it. Because the story is not just about khayyam but his philosophy also and I think Bertollucci has what it takes to explore it.
Who knows ? ... ;0)
Samarkand
by Orang Gholikhani on Fri Oct 03, 2008 04:49 AM PDTThe most intresting book I've ever read about Khayam's life is Samarkand written by Amin Malouf. A MUST BE READ book ;-)
//www.storycode.com/lcompare.php?r=1956
//www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/amin-maalouf/samarkand.htm
//www.amazon.co.uk/Samarkand-Amin-Maalouf/dp/0349106169