- While filming a scene for THE
THIEF OF BAGHDAD (1978), the scaffold collapsed to
which the "flying carpet" was attached.
The stars were sent "flying" to
the ground - fortunately nobody was injured.
- The US premiere of the soap
opera THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL was on March
23, 1987.
- Kabir's wife Nikki had a small
part in the TV mini-series NOI SIAMO ANGELI
(1996).
- Much of Kabir's movie ASHANTI
(1979) was shot in the Sinai.
- Terence Hill plays the lead
in a 1971 IL CORSARO NERO movie.
His character is called "Blackie" - it's a comedy
action movie - and, of course, his buddy Bud Spencer is in it,
too...
- Kabir's second wife Susan Humphries
designed Kabir's Succubus outfit for his movie DEMON
RAGE (1981).
- Director Clive Donner chose
Kabir for his movie THIEF OF BAGHDAD (1978)
because "he looks like a real prince".
- To celebrate the show's 10th
anniversary and the huge audience in Italy where it's called
simply BEAUTIFUL, THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL
went to Lake Como, Italy in 1997 for a big foreign location
shoot.
- ASHANTI (1979)
is based on the novel Evano by Alberto Vasques-Figueroa.
- In an earlier film version of
Kabir's TV-mini-series I MISTERI DELLA GIUNGLA NERA
(1990) Peter van Eyck is starring in the lead role, Ivan Desny
also stars.
Luigi Capuano directed the German-Italian co-production in 1964.
- Multi-talented Meera Syal of
ANITA AND ME (2001) fame wanted to be a mermaid
in her childhood.
She only gave up practising in bath holding her breath when
she realised she would never grow a fishtail!
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