Elaine Stewart in The adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

 


Gorgeous Elaine Stewart made her movie debut as a Persian princess in Walter Wanger's sex-and-sand offering, The adventures of Hajji Baba. The film follows a new 1950s tren in the use of color, employing five color themes worked out by former Vogue photographer Hoyningen-Huene to symbolize the traits of principal characters as well as help identify them in the mob scenes. In the steely-blue (foor moonlight) harem scene above, white-gowned (for purity) Princess Fawzia does a slow burn at the sight of her intended husband's happily snoozing concubines. The rest of the movie, based loosely on James Morier's 1842 classic, is, in the apt words of producer Wanger, "a What makes Sammy run in the desert."

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