The Green Goddess was a popular stage play of 1921 by William Archer.
The 1921 Broadway production four-act melodrama was produced and staged by Winthrop Ames.
Star George Arliss and Ivan F. Simpson reprised their roles in both films, as the Raja of Rukh and his chief aide, respectively.
In 1943 a third film adaptation Adventure in Iraq was produced, with the setting shifted from India to the Middle East.
[1] Green Goddess salad dressing was invented in the 1920s, by the chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, to commemorate the actor George Arliss and this play.