The Singing Princess

La Rosa di Bagdad (English: The Rose of Baghdad) is a 1949 Italian animated film by Anton Gino Domeneghini. In 1952, the film was dubbed into English, retitled The Singing Princess and dubbed by Julie Andrews as her first venture into voice-over work. The film was reissued in 1967, at the height of Andrews' subsequent Hollywood career. It is often cited as one of the first animated films from Europe and in Technicolor together with The Dynamite Brothers. It also Italy's first film in Technicolor.

Release
In 1952 the film was dubbed into English, retitled The Singing Princess. The voice cast starred Julie Andrews in her first film role, as well as her first voice-over work. It was her only voice-over work in the 1950s and her only film until Mary Poppins fifteen years later. The film was reissued in 1967 at the height of Andrews' subsequent Hollywood career. The film came out on VHS in the mid-1980s and on DVD in 2005.

Released in the U.S. at the same time as the animated Italian feature I Fratelli Dinamite, and inspired by The Arabian Nights, the story concerns a beautiful princess, a poor-but-honest hero, an evil sultan, and a slave of the lamp. Reviewers in 1949 were taken by director Anton Gino Domeghini's clever choice of camera angles and by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli's musical score.

Cast
English Patricia Hayes Stephen Jack Arthur Young Don Barclay Humphrey Kent Paul Hansard Julie Andrews Italian Germana Calderini Beatrice Preziosa Giulio Panicali Carlo Romano Olinto Cristina Mario Besesti Giovanna Scotto Renata Marini Lauro Gazzolo Maria Saccenti Sakella Rio Luisa Malagrida F. Delle Fornaci Giulio Fioravanti Piero Passarotti