Princess Leila ليلى العامرية (Kouka) - (1948) Egyptian two-piece poster

Princess Leila (1948) - (Kouka) Egyptian two-piece poster

This is a 47" x 35" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Ragheb for the 1948 Niazi Mostafa musical Princess Leila AKA layla al-amiriya AKA Leila and Magnun written by Abol-Farag al-Isfahani and starring Kouka as Leila. Plot summary: In a desert village in 7th Century Arabia Qays ibn al-Mulawah [Yehia Chahine] fell madly in love with his cousin Leila and incessantly recited poems about her. His story spread through the village, but it was a violation of tradition. Moreover, although Leila was happily spending her days with Qays, Qays had a rival for her hand in a man named Ward [Mahmoud El-Meliguy]. When the rival proposed her father [Ibrahim Emara] agreed and married Leila to him without her consent. The distraught poet took to wandering aimlessly, reciting poems and hallucinating about his lost love, while Leila got sick and died.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Yehia Chahine, Kouka, Mahmoud El-Meilguy, Reyad El Kasabgy, Ibrahim Emara, Abol-Farag al-Isfahani, Rafia al-Shal, Abdullah al-Husseini, Ali Rushdy, Mohamed Nehad, Shafiq Noureddine, Husny Claude, Awham George

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Wahiba Queen of the Gypsies [وهيبة ملكة الغجر] (Kouka) - (1951)

Wahiba Queen of the Gypsies [wahiba maliket al-ghajar] (Kouka) - (1951) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 23" x 35" original Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1951 Niazi Mostafa 111-minute black-and-white film Wahiba Queen of the Gypsies [wahiba maliket al-ghajar] starring Kouka based on a story by Mohammad Kamel Hassan with screenplay by Niazi Mostafa, dialogue by Bayram El Tounsi and cinematography by Wuhan. Plot summary: Adham Bey expelled a group of gypsy farmers from their land and the gypsies, led by Qandil, responded by kidnapping his little girl. Adham's son Sherif [Gamal Fares] and his friends began looking for the girl. Wahiba [Kouka], the leader of the gypsies, disguised herself as a pretty girl and had a meeting with Sherif. The two of them fell in love and decided to marry, even though gypsy traditions were a barrier to such a marriage. The situation became more difficult when Sherif realized that the pretty girl he loved was just a gypsy and was unacceptable to his family, and he decided to call off the marriage. Wahiba went to Cairo to break into show business as a singer and a dancer with the help of a friend named Mahrous [Abdel Aziz Mahmoud]. She met Sherif there again after she had begun to make a name for herself and no longer dressed or acted like a gypsy. He did not know her at first; then he recognized her and realized she was none other than Wahabia herself, the queen of the gypsies; they reconciled and married, but the experience had taught Sherif a hard lesson.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Muhammad Kamel Hassan, Saad Abdel Wahab, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Sophie Dimitry, Gamal Fares, Wedad Hamdy, Zaki Ibrahim, Aida Kamel, Kouka, Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, Bayram El Tounsi, Fouad Al-Rashidi, Rafia al-Shal, Zaki Ibrahim, Sharif Hamouda, Abdel Hamid Badoaha

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A Cigarette and a Glass [سيجارة وكاس] (Samia Gamal) - (1955)

A Cigarette and a Glass [sigara wa kas] (Samia Gamal) (1957) original Egyptian stone litho film poster

Pictured is a 27.5" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohamed Abdel Aziz to promote the 1955 112-minute Niazi Mostafa black-and-white film A Cigarette and a Glass [sigara wa kas] starring Samia Gamal based on a story by Abdel Aziz Salam, screenplay by Abdel Aziz Salam, Hassan Tewfik and Niazi Mostafa, dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam and Hassan Tewfik and cinematography by Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: This is a famous Egyptian melodrama in which the late Samia Gamal (1924 - 1994) plays the part of a renowned dancer named Hoda Gamal, who gives up the spotlight for marriage and is then driven to drink by jealousy. Hoda is jealous of a scheming Italian nurse named Yolanda [Dalida] who is working for her husband Dr. Mamdouh Samy [Nabil Al Alfi]. The tension is resolved at the end with the outbreak of a fire in their apartment that threatens the life of their daughter; this brings the couple to their senses and results in Yolanda's replacement as Dr. Mamdouh's assistant. Kouka, the wife of director Niazi Mostafa, sings the title song in her role as Hoda's friend and fellow performer Azz.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Aziz Salam, Nabil Al Alfi, Seraj Munir, Dalida, Kouka, Mohamed Reda, Hussein Abdel Nabi, Hosni Claude, Mervat Kazem, Kamal al-Zeini, Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Hassan Tewfik, Samia Gamal

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Rabha رابحه (Kouka) - (1945) Egyptian one-sheet

Rabha (1945) - (Kouka) Egyptian one-sheet

This is is a 27" x 39" stone lithograph poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1945 102-minute Niazi Mostafa black-and-white film Rabha starring Kouka based on a story by Mahmoud Taymoor with screenplay by Niazi Mostafa, dialogue by Bayram El Tounsi and cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim. Plot summary: Rabha, a pretty girl from a Bedouin tribe, came to the aid of a boy from the city who was injured when he fell off his galloping horse on a hunting trip, and the two of them fell in love. Her tribe had made arrangements for her to marry her cousin, but on the night she was supposed to do that she eloped with the city boy. Rabha could not enjoy her married life because she was afraid of her tribe and knew they would not forgive her for eloping. However when the tribe learned the city boy was also of Bedouin extraction they forgot about what had happened and celebrated the marriage.

Cast and crew: Kouka, Niazi Mostafa, Badr Lama, Seraj Munir, Abbas Fares, Bechara Wakim, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Negma Ibrahim, Mohammed Al Kahlawi, Ahmed Abdelhalim, Zuzu Shakeeb, Soraya Fakhry, Bayram El Tounsi, Mahmoud Taymoor, Tawfiq al-Mardanli, Fouad al-Rahidi, Amal Hussein, Mohamed Kamela

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Queen of the Desert سلطانة الصحراء (Kouka) - (1947) Egyptian rerelease one-sheet

Queen of the Desert (1947) - (Kouka) Undated rerelease Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease poster designed by an unknown artist to promote the 1947 82-minute Niazi Mostafa black-and-white film Queen of the Desert [soltanet al-sahra] starring Kouka with story and screenplay by Niazi Mostafa, bedouin dialogue and songs by Bayram El Tounsi and cinematography by Klelio. Plot summary: Soltana, the queen of the desert, had been kidnapped and left among the desert tribes after a dispute between her father and a member of the lower classes. Her cousin, a pilot, came upon her by chance, fell in love with her and told her father about it. At first the father did not know Soltana was his missing daughter, but when this became clear to him he helped his nephew rescue her from the desert tribes and the two cousins married.

Cast and crew: Niazi Mostafa, Yehia Chahine, Kouka, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Ismail Yasseen, Mokhtar Hussein, Rafia al-Shal, Bayram El Tounsi, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Farag al-Nehas, Fatheya Chahine, Fahmy Imam

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