Solomon and Sheba is a 1959 biblical-epic film made by Edward Small Productions and distributed by United Artists. The film stars Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders and Marisa Pavan, with David Farrar, Harry Andrews, Jack Gwillim, Laurence Naismith, William Devlin, Jean Anderson and Finlay Currie. It was directed by King Vidor and produced by Ted Richmond and Tyrone Power (who originally starred as Solomon but died during filming) from a screenplay by Anthony Veiller, Paul Dudley and George Bruce, based on a story by Crane Wilbur. The music score was by Mario Nascimbene with some additional cues by Malcolm Arnold, and the cinematography by Freddie Young. The film was shot in Technirama.
A box-office success, Solomon and Sheba is the 13th highest-grossing biblical epic adjusted for inflation, and was the second highest-grossing biblical epic made in 1959, after William Wyler's Ben-Hur.