Tag: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

Chu Chin Chow, 1910s

Chu Chin Chow. Postcard by Samuels Ltd. London. Photo: F. W. Burford. Costume design for Chu Chin Chow, a musical comedy written, produced and directed by Oscar Asche, based on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. The piece premièred at His Majesty’s Theatre in London on 3 August 1916 and ran for five years. | src Flickr

Blythe in Chu-Chin-Chow · 1923

James Abbe ~ The Slave Girl. Betty Blythe in ‘Chu Chin Chow’. Motion Picture Classic, January 1924 | src internet archive
Betty Blythe in Chu-Chin-Chow (Herbert Wilcox, 1923). Italian postcard by Vettori, Bologna, nº 345. Photo: James Abbe. | src Flickr

The film was based on the musical Chu Chin Chow (a reinterpretation of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) by Oscar Asche that ran in London from 1916 to 1921 and was shot at a studio lot in Steglitz in Southwestern Berlin.

James Abbe ~ The Slave Girl. Betty Blythe poses in the role of Dugget Flower in ‘Chu Chin Chow’. MPC, January 1924 (full page) | src internet archive