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Rushdi Abaza (1927 – 1982)
Born of an Italian mother and an Egyptian father, Rushdi Abaza was the scion of a respectable old family whose members held high posts in the state. As a student at St. Mark’s College in Alexandria, Rushdi was fonder of body building and athletics than academic studies. He was well-proportioned and muscular, with a handsome ...
Suad Husni (1943 – )
After she first appeared in Henri Barakat’s Hassan wa Na’eema (Hassan and Na’eema, 1959), Suad Husni became known as the Cinderella of the Screen and The Mischievous Girl. Born into an artistic family, she started her career at the age of three. She could act, sing, dance, and perform both comedy and tragedy; a woman ...
Anwar Wagdi (1904-1955)
Anwar Wagdi was of Syrian origin, the son of a textile trader, and believed from an early age that he resembled the American actor Robert Taylor. His first appearance on stage was in Julius Caesar in 1922. It was not until ten years later that he made it onto the screen, taking minor parts in ...
Layla Murad (1918-1995)
Layla Murad began her film career in 1932, singing “The Day of Departure” in al-Dahaya (The Victims), directed by Badr Lama. Egyptian cinema was on the threshold of sound. The Victims had originally been made as a silent film, but the public wanted Hollywood-style talkies, so Lama added the song by Layla Murad. She was ...
Nazli
Loking objectively at this shot from the 80s farce Dollar man, which may or may not have been influenced by the occidental show ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’, one wonders how this look worn by B-actress Nazli ever got past the censors. Although the actress’ face is typically eastern; with flawless well arched brows, kohled ...
Allaudin
Allaudin, one of the most versatile character-actors of Pakistani Film industry, began his career in undivided India. He belonged to the Kashmiri community of Rawalpindi, and his full name was Allaudin Butt. Handsomely built and blessed with a fine voice, Allaudin had reached Bombay with the sole wish of becoming a top-grade singer. But, luck ...
Mohana Cabral
Mohana Cabral was a Goan Christian. A famous konkani theater personality and singer during late 40s and early 50s in Bombay and Goa. She acted in many hindi movies of late 40s and early 50′s and sang a couple of songs in hindi movies also. After many years of acting on stage, Mohana left for ...
Dev Anand
Along with Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand completes the trio of the top male stars from the 1950s and 1960s who established the dominant acting style of post-Independence Hindi cinema. Born in Gurdaspur, Punjab, as Devdutt Pishorimal Anand to a well-off family (his father was a lawyer) Anand received a BA. with honors ...
Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit was the leading female star of the 1990s. Born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, into a middle-class family — her father is an engineer and her siblings are professionals settled in the U.S. – Dixit was studying biology at Parle college, when she was offered the chance to act in the Hindi film, Abodh (Innocent; ...
Nargis
Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, as Fatima A Rashid, Nargis was introduced to films at the age of five by her mother — actress, singer, and filmmaker Jaddanbai. Nargis acted in five films as “Baby Rani,” and then starred in her first leading role at the age of 14 in Mehboob Khan’s Taqdeer (Luck). Although ...
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Pakistani Film Database - 1957:
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Aankh ka Nasha (U)
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Mehboob Khan - The Turning Point: R.G. Torney, the general manager of Imperial Film Company, took a liking to the God-fearing young ma...
Daera (1953):
Kamal Amrohi's Daera is a deeply experimental look at a young and frail woman's mis-marriage wit...
Fatin Hamama (1931— ):
Fatin Hamama discovered the cinema when she was young, living with her family in the eastern Del...
Cinema and Films - Firsts: The Great Train Robbery (1903) - First Narrative movie
First silent film ever made
Roundhay Gar...
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