This is a 67" x 104" 14-piece Egyptian billboard designed by Hussein
Fawzi of Studio Adly to promote the 1952 Henry Barakat musical
Don't Tell Anybody based an a story by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary,
screenplay by Henry Barakat and starring Farid Al Atrache as Wahid.
Plot summary: Wahid the musician loves a dancer named Wela [Samia
Gamal] and proposes marriage to her after her return from a business
trip. However while Wela is away Wahid marries a singer named Nousa
[Nour Al Hoda] as part of a ruse arranged by Nousa's uncle Ghazal,
[Stephan Rosti] who wants to marry Wela.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Hussein Fawzi, Farid Al Atrache,
Samia Gamal, Nour Al Hoda, Stephan Rosti, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Omar
El-Hariri, Aida Kamel, Aziz Osman, Lola Sedki, Abu Seoud El-Ibiary
This is a 35" x 25.5" Egyptian stone litho one-sheet designed by
Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1953 Henry Barakat film The Rule of
Time [hukm al-zaman] based on a screenplay and dialogue by Youssef
Esa and starring Imad Hamdi as Adel. Plot summary: Engineer Adel
returns to Cairo from Europe looking for Wedad [Nour Al Hoda], the
woman he wants to marry.
Cast and crew: Hassan Mazhar Gasour, Giulio De Luca, Imad Hamdi, Henry Barakat, Magda, Nour Al Hoda, Zuzu Shakeeb, Seraj Munir, Mohammed Al-Bakkar, Souraya Fakhry, Abdel Rahim al-Zerkani, Omar al-Hariri, Samiha Tawfik
This is a 23.5" x 35.5" Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Andrea to promote the 1949 100-minute
Helmy Rafla black-and-white film Hoda starring Nour Al Hoda based on a
story by Alexandra Nicola Badran (Nour Al Hoda) with screenplay by
Helmy Rafla, dialogue by Badei Khayri and cinematography by Mohamed
Abdel Azim. Plot Summary: A secretary worked with an important
businessman. She set out to win his heart, he was overwhelmed, fell in
love with her and finally married her to get her into his life. She
found his daughter the student Hoda antagonistic towards her. His
daughter rejected this wife who was not the right age nor in the right
social position for him. Disputes erupted betwen the young wife and
the daughter. The father could not avoid helping the wife and this
caused another dispute between his wife and daughter. Because of
this the daughter left her father's home. She decided to go her own
way to pursue her artistic gifts, and she succeeded. On the other
hand the wife began to devour her husband's assets, bringing him into
bankruptcy. She left him and became estranged from him. He found
himself alone until his daughter returned to him to reveal the secret
of the plot his wife had devised with her lover to steal his money.
He divorced her for revenge and returned to his daughter, regretting
his bitter experiences after learning much from them.
Cast and crew: Nour Al Hoda, Helmy Rafla, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Hassan Fayek, Farid Shawqi, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Alexandra Nicola Badran, Badei Khayri, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Charanfantah, Zeinat Sedki, Afaf Shaker, Soad Ahmed, Rafia Al-Shal