A howling female camel ruined take after take. The camel's owner finally determined that her howls were cries of passion, as she had had fallen in love...with Vincent Price. (From "Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography" by Victoria Price.)
Yvonne De Carlo was originally cast as Princess Marjan. However, she had recently been ill and lost a lot of weight, so much that the producers decided to replace her with Maureen O'Hara.
Bagdad (1949) netted 1.6 million dollars in 1949 and was the 73rd highest grossing movie of that year.
Filmed at Alabama Hills in Lone Pine, California.
Maureen O'Hara was stung by a scorpion a few days into the shoot.