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This is a 24" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist for the 1945 Mohamed Abdel Gawad and Kamal Selim film Story of Love AKA Qisset gharam starring Amira Amir as Hoda.
Cast and crew: Amira Amir, Ibrahim Hammooda, Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Kamal Selim, Zaki Rostom, Bechara Wakim, Zaki Ibrahim, Mahmoud El-Meliguy
This is a 23.5" x 35" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Zaria for the 1942 film Leila the Schoolgirl written and directed by Togo Mizrahi and starring Laila Mourad as Leila. Plot summary: Youssef [Youssef Wahby] is a famous attorney who welcomes his orphan cousin Leila into his mansion after she completes her studies. Leila brings happiness to the mansion. This changes Youssef and makes him happy, but he falls in love with an unfaithful woman. Leila tries to correct her, but Youssef believes Leila is the one who has a lover and he throws her out of his house.
Cast and crew: Laila Mourad, Youssef Wahby, Togo Mizrahi, Mohsen Sarhan, Bechara Wakim, Mimi Shakeeb, Zaki Ibrahim, Aqila Mohammad, Mohammad Kamel
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
Pictured is a 25" x 35" Egyptian stone lithograph poster designed to promote the 1941 Togo Mizrahi 94-minute black-and-white film A Thousand and One Nights [alf layla wa layla] starring Ali Al-Kassar based on story and screenplay by Togo Mizrahi, dialogue by Badie Khayri and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: One of the tales told by the legendary Scheherezade becomes the main plot in this film. While fishing one day a fisherman named Othman Abd al-Baset [Ali Al-Kassar] finds a child in a floating basket, raises him and teaches him how to fish. After 20 years or so when the son (named Morgan) has become a man, Othman is arrested and put in prison for fishing in a forbidden area, but the daughter of the prince [Aqila Ratib] intervenes and gets him released. Othman catches a big fish and gives it to his son to give to the princess as a gift. As Morgan approaches the home of the princess he hears some beautiful singing and responds with some beautiful singing of his own. The adviser to the father of the prince wants to marry the princess to a fake prince so he can take her money. While fishing one day Othman finds a box and opens it. This releases a genie (a man dressed in a devil suit with stuffed horns), who rewards Othman with a magic scepter. Later on, the genie appears before him again another day and tells him his son Morgan is in danger. At that moment Morgan is singing as usual under the window of the princess. They arrest him and turn him over to the adviser, who realizes because of a star tatooed on his arm that Morgan is the missing prince, Bahaeddin, [Hamed Morsi] who is also the cousin of this princess. To prevent Morgan's true identity from becoming known, the adviser orders him imprisoned and held for execution. Just as they are about to cut off his head, Othman appears and proves the adviser's treachery. The princess sees the tattoo, realizes who Morgan is and introduces him to his real father and mother. The two cousins marry and Othman is rewarded.
Cast and crew: Ali Al-Kassar, Aqila Ratib, Togo Mizrahi, Hamed Morsi, Mohammad Shukry, Zaki Ibrahim, Zouzou Nabil, Loutfi El Hakim
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy to promote the 1950 Henry Barakat 125-minute black-and-white film The Shores of Love [shati al-gharam] starring Laila Mourad based on story and screenplay by Henry Barakat with dialogue by Ali Al-Zarkani and Youssef Isa and cinematography by Abelhalim Nasr. Plot summary: The Egyptian mediterranean resort of Mersa Matruh provides a picturesque setting for this romantic drama. Adel [Hussein Sedki] was a young man who did not know the meaning of love. He spent his time at racetracks, dance halls and in the arms of prostitutes. While on a beach vacation at Mersa Matruh, Adel fell in love with a schoolteacher named Laila [Laila Mourad] and asked her father for permission to marry her. The father agreed and Adel took Laila with him back to Cairo. Adel's aunt and her husband were surprised by his sudden marriage, because the aunt had been planning for him to marry her daugher Mona so she could use Adel's wealth to lift her family out of bankruptcy. On the other hand Adel's mistress Soheir [Taheya Cariocca] had also been hoping to marry him. The aunt devised a scheme to disrupt the marriage by accusing Laila of being unfaithful and she succeeded with it because Adel believed her. He sent Laila back to her father in Mersa Matruh. However Adel then learned his aunt was just after his money and that the accusation was false, so he went to Mersa Matruh to correct the mistake and bring his wife back to Cairo again.
Cast and crew: Henry Barakat, Taheya Cariocca, Laila Mourad, Mohsen Sarhan, Hussein Sedki, Salah Mansour, Abdelhalim Nasr, Ali Al-Zarkani, Youssef Esa, Samiha Ayyoub, Stephan Rosti, Zaki Ibrahim, Gom'a Idris, Mimi Shakeeb, Mona, Edmond Tuema, Nahed Farid, Shafik Noureddin
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel to promote the 1965 Abbas Kamel 109-minute color and black-and-white film Wisdom and Money [al-aql wal-mal] starring Ismail Yasseen based on a story by Ezzedin Aref with screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel and cinematography by Mahmoud Nasr. Plot summary: Fakhreddine [Ismail Yasseen] believed love was the foundation for everything and he bet his friend [Tewfik El Dekn] he could live happily with his beloved Shamsolasil, but his friend told him money was the basis for everything because with money one could buy other people and the needs of the people. When Fakhreddine saw his beloved he told her he was going to marry her and told her about the bet he had made with his friend about whether wisdom was better than money. Shams gave him a novel and asked him to read it. The story was about a man who wasted his money because he was unwise. After reading the novel Fakhreddine concluded that wisdom is attractive in life but one must also hang on to one's money.
Cast and crew: Ismail Yasseen, Mahmoud Nasr, Abbas Kamel, Hassan Fayek, Tewfik El Dekn, Madiha Kamel, Abdel Alim Khattab, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ibrahim Khan, Tarub, Mohammad Shawky, Kamel Anwar, Zaki Ibrahim, Anwar Mohamed, Hussein Ismail, Aly Kamel, Zeinab Alawy, Qatquta, Kitty, Kawsar al-Asal, Abdel Nabi Mohamed, Khaled Agabani, Soheir Magdi
This is a 34.75" x 23.5" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to promote the 1955 109-minute Hussein Sedki black-and-white film My Heart Worships You ['albi yahwak] starring Hussein Sedki and Sabah based on story and screenplay by Hussein Sedki with dialogue by Abdel Aziz Salam and cinematography by Awhan Hagun. Plot summary: Soad loved Ahmad but married Zaki. Ahmad married his divorced wife Afkar again, but she soon became a problem for him. Soad was also having a lot of problems with her husband Zaki. Then Zaki fell in love with Afkar. When Zaki had a painful accident in the mountains of Lebanon, Soad separated from him and Afkar also separated from Ahmad. Then Zaki married Afkar and Ahmad married Soad.
Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Sabah, Abdel Aziz Salam, Awhan Hagub, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad al-Dib, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Nadia Gamel, Akram Gawdat, Nour El-Demerdash, Zaki Ibrahim, Victoria Habiqa, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Ibrahim Heshmat, Rashad Hamed
Pictured is a 46.75" x 34.75" Egyptian poster by an unknown artist for the 100-minute black-and-white Hussein Sedki film Struggle for Life starring Hussein Sedki based on a screenplay by Hussein Sedki with cinematography by Mohamed Abdel Azim with dialogue by Abdel Moniem Shaker. Plot summary: Ahmed worked successfully at a law firm. His brother Fadel worked in a factory. The two of them were different on religious matters because Ahmed was a firm religious believer while Fadel was a materialist. He married Samia, the daughter of the owner of the factory where he worked, because he was hoping to get some of her father's money. When he got one of his fellow workers fired, his brother Ahmed agreed to defend the worker in court, but Fadel plotted to have the worker kidnapped to prevent him appearing in court to defend himself. Ahmed married a woman named Fathia and had a child, while Fadel and Samia lived a life of luxury and partying. Then Fadel became ill and died and Ahmed became trustee of his family affairs. Samia objected to this, but finally went insane in a mental hospital.
Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Abdel Moniem Shaker, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Samiha Tewfik, Hassan Fayek, Stafan Rosti, Stefan Rosti, Nazok, Zaki Ibrahim, Souraya Fakhry, Mohammad al-Dib, Kitty, Mohamed Abdel Azim
This is a poster promoting the 120-minute 1963 black-and-white Ezzel Dine Zulficar film Meeting at the Tower [mowed fil-borg] starring Soad Hosny with screenplay by director Ezzel Dine Zulfikar and cinematography by Massoud Essa, based on the 1957 Leo McCarey film An Affair to Remember starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr taken from a story by Mildred Cram. Plot summary: Adel met Amal on a ship bound for Alexandria while they were both trying to steal jewels from a wealthy elderly woman named Khadija Hanem, who considered Adel her fiance. An old Anatolian man loved Amal and also wanted to court her, but the two thieves fell in love. They decided to meet after a few months. Adel began working as a cook on a ship; his situation improved when the captain discovered he knew a number of languages. Amal's brother Ala was a gangleader who tried to force his sister to continue stealing and exploting her Anatolian fiance while he prepared to steal his money. Amal did everything in her power and worked at a modest job despite all the difficulties, but she did not succeed in getting the money. The day came when she was to meet Adel at the Cairo tower, but she had an automobile accident on the way there. Adel was waiting for her, but he found himself surrounded by Ala's men. He was able to get away from them but he did not know what had happened to his sweetheart. He tried to find her and while he was looking for her, he decided he would marry her. Then he found her and they married. When the brother Ala was arrested the newlyweds went on a honeymoon to Europe.
Cast and crew: Mildred Cram, Soad Hosny, Salah Zulfikar, Fouad El-Mohandes, Souraya Helmy, Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Mohamed Abu Youssef, Zein El-Ashmawy, Zeinab Sedky, Mahmoud Farag, Samia Rushdy, Zaki Ibrahim, Anwar Mady, Salah al-Masry, Helmy Halim, Al-Sayed Gaber
Egyptian 46x35 stone litho poster for the 1955 Hussein Sedki film My Heart Worships You featuring Hussein Sedki and Sabah, art by Abdel Rahman, printed by Rahgaeb Printers of Cairo.
Cast and crew: Hussein Sedki, Sabah, Abdel Aziz Salam, Awhan Hagub, Samiha Ayyoub, Mohammad al-Dib, Abdel Ghani Kamar, Nadia Gamel, Akram Gawdat, Nour El-Demerdash, Zaki Ibrahim, Victoria Habiqa
