This is a rare original Egyptian program for the 1945 Niazi Mostafa
musical Miss Bossy [al-anisa busa] based on story and dialogue
by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with screenplay by Niazi Mostafa,
cinematography by Mostafa Hassan and starring Nour Al Hoda as Miss
Bossy. Plot summary: Fawzi Basha [Bechara Wakim] made an agreement
with his daughter Bossy that she would marry someone she loved because
of who he was and not because of his money. Fawzi went bankrupt and
moved into a humble dwelling in a poor neighborhood, where he wandered
the streets playing a keyboard while his daughter sang. His daughter
fell in love with a boy from a rich family named Mohsen [Mahmoud
Zulfikar]. Her father approved of their love but the boy's family
forbade his relationship with a girl who was a poor street musician.
Mohsen stayed with her anyway and they eventually married despite
their social differences.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Hour Al Hoda, Hassan Fayek, Ferdoos
Mohammad, Bechara Wakim, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary,
Mostafa Hassan
This is a 24" x 35" original Egyptian poster designed by Alzaria for
the 1941 film Leila, the Girl from the Country written and
directed by Togo Mizrahi and starring Laila Mourad as Leila. Plot
summary: Laila Mourad has the part of a country girl who becomes
disillusioned with city life in Cairo and returns to her farm with a
new appreciation for country life.
Cast and crew: Togo Mizrahi, Laila Mourad, Youssef Wahby, Mimi
Shakeeb, Taheya Cariocca, Bechara Wakim, Zouzou Shakeeb, Anwar Wagdi,
Ferdoos Mohammad, Hassan el Baroudi, Fakher Fakher, Salwa Elaam, Abdel
Salam Al Nabulsy, Soad Abdou
This is a rare 76" x 100" eight-sheet Egyptian billboard poster designed by
Marcel to promote the 1945 Niazi Mostafa film Miss Bossy
[al-anisa busa] based on story and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary
with screenplay by Niazi Mostafa, cinematography by Mostafa Hassan and
starring Nour Al Hoda as Miss Bossy. Plot summary: Fawzi Basha made
an agreement with his daughter that she must marry someone she loved
because of who he was and not because of his money. Fawzi went
bankrupt and moved into a humble dwelling in a poor neighborhood,
where he wandered the streets playing a keyboard while his daughter
sang. His daughter fell in love with a boy from a rich family. Her
father approved of their love but the boy's family forbade his
relationship with a girl who was a poor street musician. The boy
stayed with her anyway and they eventually married despite their
social differences.
Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Nour Al Hoda, Hassan Fayek, Ferdoos Mohammad, Bechara Wakim, Mahmoud Zulfikar, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Mostafa Hassan, Marcel
Pictured is a 32" x 44.75" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel to
promote the 1958 Abbas Kamel 126-minute black-and-white film A Gift
from Heaven [rahma min al-sama'] starring Hind Rostom based on
screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel with cinematography by Alvisy
Orphanily. Plot summary: Nabila, the wife of a wealthy man named Megdi
[Imad Hamdi (1909-1984)], died, leaving him alone with his young
daughter. While he was shopping one day he met a woman named Nawal
[Hind Rostom (1931-2011)] who looked and acted like his late
wife. Nawal was a nightclub dancer. His daughter and Nawal became
like mother and daughter, and Magdi's relationship with Nawal helped
him forget his sorrow because of the loss of his wife. As the story
develops Megdi's friend Dr. Monir [Mahmoud El-Meliguy (1910-1933)]
also forms a close relationship with Nawal, who is in fact the
film's "gift from heaven."
Cast and crew: Abbas Kamel, Alvisy Orphanily, Hind Rostom, Imad Hamdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Ferdoos Mohammad, Nelly, Mohammad al-Tabei, Hussein Ismail, Mohammad Soleyman, Salwa Mahmoud, Ahmed Abouzeid
These are two original-year Egyptian promotional posters designed by
Anwari for the 125-minute 1947 black-and-white Ahmed Badrakhan
film Fatmah starring Om Kolsum based on a story by Mustafa Amin
with cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Fatmah (Om
Kolsum), a polite young nurse, was given the task of overseeing a
pasha's treatment. When the pasha's brother Fathy (Anwar Wagdy) saw
her he was taken by her beauty and the sweetness of her voice when she
sang. He fell in love with her and tried to attract her in various
ways but failed to arouse any interest. While he had a fierce desire
for her, he did not find any way other than marriage, so he actually
took her under marriage contract as a common law wife and had a
honeymoon with her in Alexandria. He returned with her, but they had
to live together in her humble home in one of the neighborhoods in
view of his father's anger about what had happened. Fathy could not
tolerate living there or interacting with the people of that
neighborhood, and he left after he was fed up with it. Chance led him
to the villa of Mervat (Mimi Shakeeb), an aristocratic girl. He made
preparations to marry her also because he had already promised her he
would do that. Fathy found that this was the way to please his father
the pasha, and he returned to his father's mansion forgetting his wife
the nurse. His father asked him to get the marriage paper from this
nurse, which he did but only after Fatmah had made a photocopy of it.
Fathy abandoned Fatmah but she had become pregnant by him and had his
child, although he denied it. The people in the neighborhood met and
decided to raise the issue of Fathy. In the midst of these events
Fathy told his wife Mervat about the situation and then went to
Fatmah's house to ask her forgiveness. He was struck by an automobile
on the way, just when he had come to his senses and decided to return
to Fatmah with regret for what he had done and acknowledge that he was
the father of her son.
Cast and crew: Mustafa Amin, Om Kolsum, Suleiman Naguib, Zuzu Shakeeb, Anwar Wagdi, Saneya Shawky, Ahmed Badrakhan, Abdelhalim Nasr< Mimi Shakeeb, Hassan Fayek, Ferdoos Mohammad
Personal Double [saheb balin] (1946) - (Bechara Wakim) Egyptian film poster
This is a 23.5" x 35" first printing of an Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Abdel Aziz
to promote the 1946 Abbas Kamel film Personal Double [saheb
balin] starring Bechara Wakim based on story, dialogue and screenplay
by Abbas Kamel with cinematography by Very Verkash. The poster was
printed by Raghaeb Printers and the film was produced and distributed
by the Al-Ahram Studio. Plot summary: The wealthy Shuman Pasha
discovered that one of the local people resembled him to a great
extent. That was the embittered teacher Abbas who lived with his wife
Radia. The pasha lived the life of a rich man in a social position
with systems and rules in addition to collective responsibilities to
the individual. He made an agreement with the teacher Abbas to change
roles in life, because Abbas was fed up with poverty and need. Abbas
fell in love with the pasha's maid, but everyone rejected that
relationship because they were not socially equal. He told them the
truth but they denied it and said he was crazy. Shuman Pasha, who had
lost his memory, was living the homeless life and could not adapt to a
life of poverty. After a few comic incidents the two met and traded
places again. Everyone discovered this strange resemblance, which
clarified the reason for the change in positions. Abbas married the
wealthy man's maid and finally achieved security and social equality.
Cast and crew: Abbas Kamel, Very Varkash, Bechara Wakim, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Mimi Shakeeb, Ferdoos Mohammad, Mohammad Choukoukou, Ismail Yasseen, Soad Makawy, Sanaa Samih, Ya'qub Tanius, Lola Abdou, Tilly Mazlum, Mohammad Kamel, Hassan Kamel
The poster shown here was designed by Stamatis Vassiliou to promote
the 1955 135-minute black-and-white Hassan Al Imam film Girls of
the Night [banat al-lail] based on a story by Hassan Al Imam with
screenplay and dialogue by El Sayed Bedeir and cinematography by
Alevise Orfanelli. Plot summary: One of the girls of the night, the
daughter of a decent man, fell into the ways of seduction and
became a cabaret professional, but she was deeply unhappy and wanted
to return to a pure upright life. One night the girl happened to see
a conservative family who had been her neigbors before her fall. They
loved her and made an agreement with her to save her. They welcomed
her back into the old friendship that had connected the two families
and agreed to a marriage between her and their son, believing she was
still pure. The girl was pregnant and felt that her hopes for
marriage had died, but the nurse who treated her told her to sell the
child at birth to a barren woman who was afraid she would lose her
husband if she could not give him a child.
However the girl refused to sell her baby and decided to tell her
fiance everything. Her fiance's father discovered the truth about her
life and what she had done, forbade his son to marry her and threw her
out of the house. Then the boy had an accident at work, broke his
spine and was taken to the hospital. He was told an operation would
be needed that would cost his father a lot of money. The girl learned
about it and agreed to sell her baby and give the money to the
hospital. The boy she loved was saved and then she had her baby and
gave it to the barren woman, who took advantage of her husband's
travel as a naval officer and told him she had borne the child in his
absence. The days passed and the girl left Egypt for Lebanon. There
she ran across her daughter with the woman who had bought her, and
motherly emotions stirred in her heart. She followed the woman to
Egypt, where she asked her to return her child to her. However the
woman told her husband the whole truth and he went with her to the
cabaret where the girl worked. There the fiance and his father met and
tried to intervene to resolve the situation. They found the girl doing her
dance on a high platform. She died after it became clear that the
woman's husband was the baby girl's father, the one who had previously
had a relationship with her.
Cast and crew: El Sayed Bedeir, Madiha Yousri, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hind Rostom, Zuzu Hamdi, Souraya Helmy, Hassan Al Imam, Hussein Riad, Ahmed Allam, Alevise Orfanelli, Zuzu Hamdi, Ferdoos Mohammad, Nadia Al-Shennawi, Soraya Hassan, Abdel Azim Kamel, E'tedal Shahin, Khayria Khayri, Saleha Qasin, Mohamed Shawky, Mohamed Sabih
This is an Egyptian rerelease promotional poster designed by Wahib
Fahmy for the 125-minute 1947 black-and-white Ahmed Badrakhan film
Fatmah starring Om Kolsum based on a story by Mustafa Amin with
cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: Fatmah (Om Kolsum), a
polite young nurse, was given the task of overseeing a pasha's
treatment. When the pasha's brother Fathy (Anwar Wagdy) saw her he
was taken by her beauty and the sweetness of her voice when she sang.
He fell in love with her and tried to attract her in various ways but
failed to arouse any interest. While he had a fierce desire for her,
he did not find any way other than marriage, so he actually took her
under marriage contract as a common law wife and had a honeymoon with
her in Alexandria. He returned with her, but they had to live together
in her humble home in one of the neighborhoods in view of his father's
anger about what had happened. Fathy could not tolerate living there
or interacting with the people of that neighborhood, and he left after
he was fed up with it. Chance led him to the villa of Mervat (Zuzu
Shakeeb), an aristocratic girl. He made preparations to marry her
also because he had already promised her he would do that. Fathy
found that this was the way to please his father the pasha, and he
returned to his father's mansion forgetting his wife the nurse. His
father asked him to get the marriage paper from this nurse and he
finally succeeded in doing so, but only after Fatmah had made a
photocopy of it. Fathy abandoned Fatmah but she had become pregnant
by him and had his child, although he denied it. The people in the
neighborhood met and decided to raise the issue of Fathy. In the
midst of these events Fathy adjusted his wife Mervat to the situation
and hurried to Fatmah's house to ask her forgiveness. He was struck
by an automobile on the way, just when he had awakened to return to
Fatmah with regret for what he had done and acknowledge his
relationship to her son.
Cast and crew: Mustafa Amin, Om Kolsum, Suleiman Naguib, Zuzu Shakeeb, Anwar Wagdi, Saneya Shawky, Ahmed Badrakhan, Abdelhalim Nasr, Mimi Shakeeb, Hassan Fayek, Ferdoos Mohammad
Unspoken Love (1959) - (Hind Rostom) Egyptian one-sheet
Boheira played games to get a successful man to marry her because
she coveted his wealth, even though he was married to Samiha and loved
her. The engineer's colleague Hoda loved him in silence and was
content just to go along happily with his wife. Samiha had a daughter
and after the birth the family and her husband agreed to an operation
on her to save her life, without telling her. The girl grew and
created a tie between the engineer and his wife. Boheira made her
network around the engineer, but he thought of her as just a friend.
However his wife was mindful of this and doubted him. The child died
in an accdent and this killed the relationship between the enginer and
his wife. Hoda made an effort to restore their unity and get rid of
Boheira. Samiha learned from the physician that she would never bear
children and that her husband had agreed to the operation. She
despaired of restoring happiness to the family and the problems
returned. Boheira took advantage of the opportunity and got close to
the engineer. Hoda worked to restore peace between the two married
people; however Samiha was aware that Boheira was competing in dance
and soccer. Recently she had had a nervous breakdown and thought Hoda
was having a relationship with her husband. She made Hoda leave the
house to prevent them from talking to each other; this left Boheira
alone with the engineer and it strengthened their relationship. The
home was darkened with an air of difficulty. Samiha decided to kill
her husband the engineer because she thought he was betraying her.
However both she and Boheira were hurt in an accident. The engineer
discovered Hoda's love for him and and her sacrifice, and he married
her. Directed by Seif Eddine Shawkat.
Cast and Crew: Hind Rostom, Yehia Chahine, Mariam Fakhr Eddine,
Ferdoos Mohammed, Seif Eddine Shawkat
