Baubles, Bangles, & Beads Deodato recorded an instrumental in a hit LP of 1973. Argentine composer Ernesto Acher mixed the "scherzo" of Borodin's string quarted with this piece of music, under the name "Borodin, Bangles & Beads" in 1987 on his album "Juegos" Baubles, Bangles, & Beads "Baubles, Bangles & Beads" is a popular song from the 1953 musical "Kismet", credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest. Like all the music in that show, the melody was based on works by Alexander Borodin, in this case the second theme of the second movement of his "String Quartet in D." The "Kismet" setting maintains the
Kismet (1930 film) amount of pre-Code content (especially in the sequences in the harem) has probably contributed to the film's loss status. Two remakes, both in color, were made of the film, one in 1944 and the other in 1955. The 1955 version was an adaptation of the hit Broadway musical based on the play. Some sources claim that the original 1930 film featured Technicolor sequences. The film is considered lost, while the complete soundtrack of the film survives on Vitaphone disks. One Foreign Language Version of the 1930 version of "Kismet" was made. The German version, also titled "Kismet", was directed by