The Girl from Paris [بنت باريز] (Taheya Cariocca) - (1950) Egyptian one-sheet

The Girl from Paris (1950) - (Taheya Cariocca) Egyptian one-sheet

This is an original-year 23.5" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Gasour and Khatab and printed by al-Halaby printers of Cairo to promote the 1950 Helmy Rafla film The Girl from Paris [bint bariz] starring Taheya Cariocca based on story and dialogue by Abou Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: The manager of a theater where Adel [Mohammad Fawzi] worked as a musician hired a French dancer to work with him; when a cable came to the manager apologizing that the dancer would not be coming to Cairo, he hired a local look-alike [Taheya Cariocca] whom he falsely presented as the French dancer. Adel was not aware of the impersonation at first but he fell in love with the substitute and married her even after he realized what had happened.

Cast and crew: Muhammad Fawzi, Taheya Cariocca, Leila Fawzi, Helmy Rafla, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Aziz Osman, Samiha Tawfiq, Stephan Rosti, Elias Moadab, Abou Seoud El-Ibiary, Bruno Salvi, Sanaa Samih, Wedad Hamdy, Edmond Tuema, Abdel Moneim Ismail

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The Unmarried Mother [الآنسة ماما] (Sabah) - (1950)

The Unmarried Mother [al-anisa mama] (Sabah) - (1950) Egyptian film poster

Pictured is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1950 117-minute Helmy Rafla black-and-white musical The Unmarried Mother [al-anisa mama] starring Sabah based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A girl named Nimra who loved to sing [Sabah] fell in love with a famous musician named Monir Yousri [Muhammad Fawzi]. When Monir began preparing an operetta Nimra competed to be in it and won a place for herself. Monir's father [Suleiman Naguib] liked her and began courting her but at the same time he sensed her feelings for his son. To make Monir jealous Nimra made an agreement with his father that he would claim they had agreed to marry. This shocked Monir. At first Monir's father doted on Nimra but he ultimately had no alternative but to acknowledge their feelings for each other and support their marriage.

Cast and crew: Sabah, Muhammad Fawzi, Ismail Yasseen, Helmy Rafla, Bruno Salvi, Hagar Hamdi, Zeinat Sedki, Salah Mansour, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Suleiman Naguib, Mohamed Kamal al-Masri, Hussein Ibrahim, Soad Ahmed, Fahmy Aman, Saleha Qasin

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The Spirit and the Body (1948) - (Muhammad Fawzi)

The Spirit and the body [al-ruh wal-gessad] (1948) - (Muhammad Fawzi) Egyptian film poster

Shown here is the first printing of a 24" x 35" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer printed by Ashur and Company to promote the 1948 Helmy Rafla 125-minute black-and-white film The Sprit and the Body [al-ruh wal-gessad] starring Muhammad Fawzi based on screenplay, dialogue and story by Youssef Gohar with cinematography by Bruno Salvi. The film was produced by Muhammad Fawzi Films and distributeb by Montakhebat Behna Film. Plot summary: Two young men were quite close to each other. One was a musician and the other was a scholar and a poet. The scholar married a musician and the musician married a dancer, but he also lost his sight in an accident, which caused him to stop singing. The friends became closer, and the musician's sight was restored in an operation. When this happened he concentrated on his art with renewed determination.

Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Camelia, Shadia, Muhammad Fawzi, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Ismail Yasseen, Hind Rostom, Hassan Kamel, Elias Moadab, Abdel Aziz Hamdi, Fouad Fahim, Nagwa Salem

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Fatma, Marika and Rachel فاطمة و ماريكا و راشيل (Mohammad Fawzi) - (1949) Egyptian one-sheet

Fatma, Marika and Rachel (1949) - (Mohammad Fawzi) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a promotional poster designed by Abdel Rahman for the 1949 Helmy Rafla 110-minute black-and-white film Fatma, Marika and Rachel فاطمة و ماريكا و راشيل starring Mohammad Fawzi based on the 1778 play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, with story, screenplay and dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary and cinematograpy by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A wealthy young playboy who loved virgins to obtain pleasure with them met a Jewish girl named Rachel. He told her his name was Youssef and that he was a practicing member of her religion. Her father sent her with him to her tailor named Marika to pay her for the dresses account. Youssef met Marika. He liked her and learned she was of Greek extraction. He told her he was also of Greek extraction and established a relationship with her; then Rachel learned about it and quarreled with Marika. Youssef fled this situation while his rural father sent him a request that he marry Fatma, the daughter of his friend, who was living with her uncle in Cairo and doing nothing but depriving him of his inheritance. The boy and his friend planned to go together to Fatma and claim that the friend was the groom so she would be disgusted with both of them. Fatma made the same plan so she could get rid of this miserable groom. She impersonated her maid and said she was refusing the groom, while the boy refused the bride. After a few laughable exchanges the boy told his father he would marry the girl he loved and the girl told her father she would marry the one she loved. The father objected, but when the truth became clear, everyone realized the girl he loved was Fatma and the boy Fatma loved was the one who was the candidate for marriage with her. They married with the consent of the family and the wealth gave him a reason to live with his wife Fatma.

Cast and crew: Helmy Rafla, Madiha Yousri, Muhammad Fawzi, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Bruno Salvi, Lola Sedki, Ismail Yasseen, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Nelly Mazloum, Hassan Kamel, Hurria Hassan, Gamalat Zayed, Shafik Noureddin

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