This is a 6.5" x 9.5" 14-page film program for the 1950 film My Sister Seteita> written\
and directed by Hussein Fawzi and Starring
Sabah as Hodhod. Plot summary: Hodhod was a singer who fell in love
with a famous singer named named Nabil [Saad Abdel Wahab]. To
insinuate herself into his life she impersonated his sister Seteita,
[Afaf Shaker] whom he had not seen in years.
This is a rare original Egyptian program for the 1949
musical She's Cute! [baladi wa khifa] written and directed by
Hussein Fawzi and starring Naima Akef as Hanouma. Plot summary:
Hanouma was engaged to Mahrous, [Saad Abdel Wahab] a musician. She
met Khaled Bey, [Abbas Fares] a film director, who introduced her to
the world of fame. She turned her back on the people in her old
neighborhood, but after that she was torn between the devil and a
good angel tugging at her from opposite directions; she finally went
back to Mahrous.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fawzi, Saad Abdel Wahab, Naima Akef, Abbas
Fares, Mahmoud Choukoukou, Lola Sedki, Stephan Rosti, Zeinat Sedki
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Pictured is a 23" x 35" poster designed by Dimitri Gabriel and Hassan
Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1951 Helmy Rafla two-hour
black-and-white film The Beloved Country [al-balad al-mahbub]
starring Taheya Cariocca based on a story by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary with
dialogue by Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, screenplay by Helmy Rafla and
cinematography by Bruno Salvi. Plot summary: A wealthy farmer owns
hundreds of acres of land. He advises his son to marry his friend's
daughter but she refuses because she does not want to marry a
farmer. Her father pressures her to marry him because this will
relieve him of financial hardship due to the money he will get
after they marry. However the girl loves her cousin in Cairo who does
not have money. The boy meets a dancer and and asks her to teach him
the ways of modern life and how to interact with girls. He wants all
of this so he can please the girl who has refused him. The dancer
falls in love with him. Meanwhile the girl discovers the truth about
her cousin, who abandons her after learning her father is on the verge
of bankruptcy. Then the girl agrees to marry the first boy. The dancer
withdraws from their lives.
Cast and crew: Abu Seoud El-Ibiary, Helmy Rafla, Bruno Salvi, Taheya Cariocca, Ismail Yasseen, Saad Abdel Wahab, Soad Makawy, Hassan Fayek, Sherifa Maher, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Wedad Hamdy, Soraya Fakhry, Zaki Ibrahim, Amina El-Said, Dalal Mahmoud, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim
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
This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian poster designed by
Ahmed Fouad for the 1949 Hussein Fawzi film Bread and Salt
written and directed by Hussein Fawzi with dialogue by Badei Khayri
and starring Naima Akef as Botheina. Plot summary: A boy lived in the
Bread and Salt neighborhood and worked for one of the rich people. He
loved the girl next door, who reciprocated, but she suddenly changed,
turned away from his love and behaved in a disagreeable way that was
unlike the warm nature of the Bread and Salt neighborhood. The boy
criticized her behavior but it became clear that she was turning away
because of her special family circumstances; here the people in the
neighborhood were working together to overcome the problems she was
facing. However they were unable to help her and she ran away from the
neighborhood to work in a nightclub. The boy was having problems at
his job with the rich man, who had blind faith in him. People were
trying to create a division between the two of them. The people in
another neighborhood were trying to prove that the boy was upright and
honest, and the girl came back to stand by her neighbor. Conditions
improved and the boy went back to his job with reputation restored.
Conditions also improved with the girl's family so they ended up
getting married.
Cast and crew: Hussein Fawzi, Saad Abdel Wahab, Naima Akef, Mahmoud Nasr, Abbas Fares, Lola Sedki, Hassan Fayek, Said Khalil, Mokhtar Hussein, Hassan Kamel, Wedad Hamdy, Soad Ahmed, Badel Khayri, Abdel Moniem Ismail
