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A Thousand and One Nights (1945) Facts
| Director(s) | Alfred E. Green |
| Producer(s) | Samuel Bischoff |
| Featured Cast | Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens, Cornel Wilde, Dennis Hoey |
| Total Facts | 3 |
Shelley Winters is most easily spotted as one of Adele Jergens' blonde handmaidens, standing in the background at the aborted wedding scene.
The hero is introduced several times as "Aladdin of Cathay" referring to Marco Polo's name for (Northern) China. In the original Arabian Nights tale, Aladdin is a Chinese lad and his adventure takes place in a rather Arabian-seeming China. No attempt is made to make Cornel Wilde look Chinese.
This film is notable for documenting the use of the word "groovy" as a recognized slang term in American society as early as the mid-1940s.