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This is a 24" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist for the 1945 Mohamed Abdel Gawad and Kamal Selim film Story of Love AKA Qisset gharam starring Amira Amir as Hoda.
Cast and crew: Amira Amir, Ibrahim Hammooda, Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Kamal Selim, Zaki Rostom, Bechara Wakim, Zaki Ibrahim, Mahmoud El-Meliguy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 1955 Ahmed Badrakhan film God Is on Our Side based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus and starring Faten Hamama as Nadia. Plot summary: Officer Ahmed [Imad Hamdi] went to fight in the Palestine war after promising to write to his fiancee Nadia, [Faten Hamama] his cousin and the daughter of his rich uncle [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. Ahmed was wounded and lost his arm. He returned with the other maimed and injured soldiers as the men in the Army were complaining about the corrupt people who were importing weapons, including his fiancee's father. While the free officers had resolved to liberate the country and avenge it, at Ahmed's behest Nadia searched her father's papers for incriminating evidence. The father was surrounded by soldiers who had come to arrest him; he was killed accidentally by his own hand grenade when he was about to throw it at them. The film ends with the overthrow of the monarchy and the country's liberation.
Cast and crew: Faten Hamama, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Imad Hamdi, Magda, Ahmed Badrakhan, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Abdelhalim Nasr, Olwiyya Gamil, Amira Amir, Shukry Sarhan, Said Abu Bakr, Stephan Rosti, Wedad Hamdy, Mahmoud Ismail, Samiha Ayyoub, Mona Fouad, Adly Kasseb, Zaki Ibrahim, Amina Cherif, Hussein Riad, Aly Reda
This is an original 35" x 23.5" Egyptian poster for the 1945 Kamal Selim film Friday Evening [leylet al-gom'a] based on story and screenplay by Kamal Selim, dialogue by Badi Khairi and starring Taheya Cariocca as herself. Plot summary: This is a musical farce in which a wealthy uncle wants his nephew to marry so he will get his inheritance, but the nephew is already married.
Cast and crew: Taheya Cariocca, Badi Kheiri, Anwar Wagdi, Kamal Selim, Amira Amir, Bechara Wakim, Marie Munib, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Souraya Helmy, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Ismail Yasseen, Ibrahim Hamuda, Mohammad Abdel Matlab, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Ahmed El Haddad
Pictured is a first printing of a 33.5" x 45" Egyptian stone lithograph poster made by an unknown designer to promote the 105-minute Mostafa Hassan black-and-white film The Unknown Singer [al-moghani al-maghul] starring Mohammed Al Kahlawi based on an idea by Mohammed Al Kahlawi with screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematography by Mostafa Hassan. Plot summary: Mohammad and Shafiq grew up together. Shafiq became an engineer while Mohammad was unable to finish school and became a skilled decorator. Mohammad also had a beautiful voice and was able to record his singing for radio broadcasts. Mahasen, Shafiq's cousin, loved Mohammad and he reciprocated, but Shafiq also loved her. When Mohammad proposed to Mahasen her father refused to allow it because he wanted her to marry Shafiq. However when Mohammad won a prize for his singing he became an important person and Mahasen's father changed his mind and allowed the marriage.
Cast and crew: Mostafa Hassan, Mohammed Al Kahlawi, Amira Amir, Aziza Amir, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Choukoukou, Hassan Fayek, Bechara Wakim, Hagar Hamdi, Fakher Fakher, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Hamid Zaki, Naima Gamal, Soad Hussein, Mousa Helmy, Abbas Ahmed, Gaber Ahmed, Abbas Hassan
