Kismet (1955) [Blu-ray]

With Alexander Borodin'’s soaring music fashioned by Robert Wright and George Forrest into “Stranger in Paradise,” “Baubles, Bangles and Beads” and even more evergreens, Kismet turned the Broadway stage into a glittering, gleaming Arabian Nights’ dream.

Ideal material, in fact, for the dream factory.

To Hollywood and director Vincente Minnelli, Kismet was kismet.

This lavish musical follows one fateful, fabulous day as a beggar-poet (Howard Keel) and his daughter (Angg Blyth) cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical curse, opulent sets and exotic adventure.

“Princes come, princes go,” sings the beggar.

Glorious Kismet endures!