This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1956 musical Girls Today
written and directed by Henry Barakat, music by Mohamed
Abdel Wahab and starring Abdel Halim Hafez as Khaled. Plot summary:
Salwa [Magda] and Laila [Amal Farid] are sisters with vastly different
personalities. Salwa is quiet and polite while Laila is extroverted
and cheerful. Khaled gets into a romance with Laila, which brings out
their differences. Khaled soon turns his attention to Laila's sister
Salwa, but his artist friend Fathy [Ahmed Ramzy] is also attracted to
her.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Youssef Issa, Abdel Halim Hafez,
Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Magda, Ahmed Ramzy, Amal Farid, Seraj Munir,
Soraya Fakhry, Fathiya Shahin, Kariman, Abdel Azim Kamel, Hussain
Ismail, Mokhtar El Sayed, Ahmed Khorshid
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the
1957 Hassan Al Imam film Lawahez based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Mohamed Mostafa Samy and starring Shadia [1931-2017] as
Lawahez. Plot summary: Lawahez was a bright star among the great
performers, who sang and danced with wonder and fascination. Her
parents had been sent to prison and she was summoned to visit her
ailing mother at the prison hospital. Her mother confessed to her
that she was not the daughter of the convicted "bachelor teacher."
She was the daughter of a respected man who had married her mother
secretly and had not left her. She later married "the teacher" who
took advantage of her and involved her in his crimes. The mother died
and the girl felt she had been released from the domination of the
criminal she had thought to be her father, who had been sending her
threatening extortionist letters from the prison. The girl refused to
pay anything to the messenger then went to a police officer to seek
protection from him. By chance this officer was the son of the second
wife of the respected man who was the girl's true father. He spoke to
his mother's husband about the tragedy of the girl he had seen in his
office and the man realized the girl Lawahez was his daughter. He
told the officer and asked him to conceal the matter to avoid angering
his mother. The officer decided the only way to save the girl from
the miserable night life was to bring her home to work as a maid for
her father, his mother's husband, who had taken ill. Lawahez agreed
to this because she loved the officer. She lived at her father's house
without telling her friends, and the young son, who was her half
brother, flirted with her. She and the officer fell in love. The
"teacher" got out of prison and went looking for the girl. He broke
into the father's home and demanded that the girl be returned to him.
The real father refused. The teacher offered to pay to have the girl
turned over to him. Then the wife discovered the girl had worked in a
cabaret and banished her from the home to return to her old work. The
teacher and his gang went to the cabaret where they abducted the girl
and took her to his hideout. He tried to rape her but the girl
resisted and stabbed him to death with a knife just when the officer
arrived with policemen to save her.
Cast and crew: Shadia, Hassan Al Imam, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mahmoud
El-Meliguy, Mahmoud Ismail, Zouzou Nabil, Alvisy Orphanily, Mohamed
Mustafa Samy, Kariman, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Fakher Fakher, Aziza
Helmy, Qatquta, Shafik Noureddin, Salwa Sami, Hussein Ismail, Mohsen
Hassanein, Salwa Mahmoud, Abbas Al-Dali, Anwar Zaki, Souraya Hassan,
Mahmoud El Guindi, Elham Ibrahim
This is a rare 8" x 11" film program for the 1953 Helmy Rafla
film Charming Mothers-in-Law based on screenplay and dialogue by
Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Kamal Al-Shennawi as Samir. Plot
summary: In this lively comedy a pair of newlyweds (Kamal Al-Shennawi
and Kariman as Nabila) share their love nest with the two
mothers-in-law, who fight constantly.
Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Kamal Al-Shennawi,
Marie Monib, Mimi Shakeeb, Abdel Salam Al-Nabulsy, Kariman, Ismail
Yasseen
This is a rare 13" x 16" lobby card for the 1953 Helmy Rafla
film Charming Mothers-in-Law based on screenplay and dialogue by
Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and starring Kamal Al-Shennawi as Samir. Plot
summary: In this lively comedy a pair of newlyweds (Kamal Al-Shennawi
and Kariman as Nabila) share their love nest with the two
mothers-in-law, who fight constantly.
Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Kamal Al-Shennawi,
Marie Monib, Mimi Shakeeb, Abdel Salam Al-Nabulsy, Kariman, Ismail
Yasseen
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster for the 1966 Fatin Abdel Wahab
film My Wife the Director General written by Abdel Hamid Gouda
El Sahhar and Saad Eldin Wahba and starring Shadia as Esmat. Plot
summary: Hussein Omar [Salah Zulfikar] was surprised when his wife
Esmat was made director general of the construction company where he
was working. He concealed his marriage to the director general but he
was forced to admit it later when friction developed between them over
trivialities. Esmat tried to have a new honeymoon with her husband,
while her husband asked for a transfer to her department so he could
be a witness to the value of her work.
Cast and crew: Fatin Abdel Wahab, El-Deif Ahmed, Shadia, Salah
Zulfikar, Fatin Abdel Wahab, Mahmoud Fahmy, Tewfik El Dekn, Shafik
Noureddin, Youssef Chaban, Kariman, Adel Imam, Abdel Hamid Gouda El
Sahar, Saad Eldin Wahba
This film is based on the 1929 Jean Giono novel Un de
Baumugnes, and the 1934 film Angele based on the same
novel directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Orane Demazis as Angele
Barbaroux. It was directed by Hassan Ramzi with screenplay by Hassan
Ramzi and Naguib Mahfouz, cinematography by Victor Antoun.
Plot Summary: Zeinab believed it was her right to choose her
husband but her father the mayor arranged a marriage to her cousin
against her wishes. Zeinab ran away and her cousin decided he would
kill her if he found her. Zeinab went to Cairo where she met a young
physician who gave her shelter. They fell in love and agreed to marry
in three years after he returned from an assignment in Europe.
However he came home drunk one night and raped her. In the morning he
was unable to explain to her his decision to marry her. He left and
she thought he had fled after deceiving her. She left the house and
went to live with one of the doctor's friends, who treated her as a
sister. They joined a singing group that toured the Arab nations.
When the physician returned he tried to find Zeinab so he could marry
her but no one could say where she was. She was living with the
physician's friend outside Cairo where she had her baby and was
raising the child. She learned from the newspapers that he had become
a representative for the hospital in her town. She decided to return
to Cairo to ask him to acknowledge his son. When she met him he was
confused to learn he had a son. He emphasized he would acknowledge
him but he asked her to give him time. She believed he was fleeing
from her. Suddenly her family summoned him to help her dying father.
She went with him and asked his forgiveness. The father died and the
cousin decided to kill her, but he changed his mind in the end because
of her sister's pleading, and she finally returned to her town. The
physician's friend mediated between Zeinab and the physician and
harmony was restored between them.
Cast and crew: Hassan Ramzi, Shadia, Shukry Sarhan, Zaki Rostom, Kariman, Ferdoos Mohammed, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Victor Antoun, Abdel Alim Khattab, Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Sabih, Jean Giono, Marcel Pagnol, Orane Demazis, Angele Barbaroux
