
The Lady's Puppet (1946) - (Naguib Al Rihani) Egyptian one-sheet
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1946 Wali Eddine Sameh film The Lady's Puppet starring Naguib Al Rihani based on the 1898 Pierre Louys novel The Devil Is a Woman AKA La Femme et le pantin, story by Naguib Al Rihani and Badei Khayri and starring Naguib Al Rihani as Hassan. Plot summary: In Cairo during the World War II a poor boy named Hassan marries a runaway named Laaba, [Taheya Cariocca] who later becomes a cinema performer; she leaves Hassan for another man, then agrees to marry the other man while in Lebanon without telling him of her existing marriage to Hassan.
Cast and crew: Wali Eddine Sameh, Naguib Al Rihani, Badei Khayri, Pierre Louys, Taheya Cariocca, Suleiman Naguib, Aziz Osman, Bechara Wakim, Hassan Fayek, Marie Munib, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Badei Khayri, Mustafa Hassan