Mary Queeny
Also Known As: Mary Queeny, ماري كويني
Biography: An Egyptian actress, editor, and producer of Lebanese origin, Mary Queeny was born in the town of Tannourine, located in northern Lebanon, in 1916. After the death of her father, she moved to Egypt to live with her mother and sister. She began her acting career in 1929, starring in (Ghada Al-Sahraa), and continued acting until the mid-1950s. Among her films are (Look for the Woman, Magda, The Seventh Wife, and Women Without Men). In addition to acting, Mary Queeny worked as an editor during the 1930s and 1940s. She also produced a large number of films through her private production company and her husband, Ahmed Galal, including: (Son of the Nile, Dawn of a New Day, Badour, and Tomorrow Love Returns). She died in 2003 at the age of 87.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lebanon
Adult: No
Birthday: November 16, 1913
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 25, 2003
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Elham
Overview: Elham is an honest girl, but when her father loses all his wealth, she's forced to deviate from the right path after losing her virginity, she becomes a model to a sculptor and then a night girl in a nightclub, until an affectionate man intervenes and takes her hand to a more compassionate horizon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-04-24
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Bent Elbasha El Moder
Overview: Hikmat disguises herself as a man after her brother suffered a tragic accident while on his way to start his work. She pretends to be teacher for the children of the Pasha instead of her brother. Hikmat gets to know the children whom she teaches and becomes Mr. Hikmat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-13
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Rebellious girl
Overview: Doria is a student in a boarding school. She falls in love with an arrogant young man who decides to follow the straight path out of his love for her. However, they discover that her mother works in a nightclub, and their fates separate them.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1940-02-29
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Rabab
Overview: As Rabab escapes from the cruelty of his stepmother and stays with an actress, she meets the young man, Ihsan, who tries to assault her inside his car, which overturns and dies. With his father’s attempt to take revenge on Rabab, she decides to flee again to Cairo to work as a teacher there under the name (Najwa). Then she met a colleague of hers and married him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Majda
Overview: The film's events revolve around Magda, a beautiful girl who is forced to marry a rich man, but she does not love him, so she decides to run away from him on the wedding night, and he decides to take revenge on her and her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1943-12-06
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When a Woman Loves
Overview: Amina gets involved with a young man she loved, but he deceives her and abandons her. She gives birth to her son Murad, who is raised by her friend Umm Ibrahim. Amina marries Hashem, who knows nothing about her past. Murad is ten years old when his mother's friend Umm Ibrahim sends him to Europe. Years later, Murad returns to Egypt and meets Nadia, a con girl on board a ship who shares her brother Ramzy's crimes.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1933-03-27
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Pangs of Remorse
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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Bewitching Eyes
Overview: Delilah, a singer, seems at first to be in mutual love with a young man named Sami, but her club won't let him in much, and he grows distant while she grows fonder. She accosts him demanding he reconsider, jumping into his car as he leaves the club. Sami's car crashes, throwing him to his death, but Delilah escapes. Heartbroken and traumatized, she visits his grave in the dead of night and performs occult rituals to revive him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1934-02-08
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ضحيت غرامي
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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Women Without Men
Overview: A brother disagrees with his sister which makes her move to live with her older sister in the countryside. She finds her sister living a harsh life and when the brother goes to visit them, he's surprised by the strict way imposed by the sister at home.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Belle of the Desert
Overview: The Sheikh of one of the tribes loves the Bedouin girl Salma, who's engaged to her cousin. The Sheikh kidnaps her and forces her to marry him. As she gives birth to a child, the servant Suleiman helps her escape, only for his malicious intentions to be revealed when he tries to attack her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1929-05-01
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The 7th Wife
Overview: Wahid (Mohammad Fawzi) married a woman for one year in the hope of having a child. That she married the seventh wife in his life, and she believes that she is the first. When she learns that she is the seventh wife, she feels cheated, but she hesitates to secede, so that her marriage is not an obstacle to her younger sister Suad's marriage, His only love for her.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-04-10
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Look for the Woman
Overview: Adel dedicates his life to supporting the farmers, which his wife Hoda, who lives a life of luxury and extravagance, objects to, while her sister Malak Masaei supports Adel, so Hoda suspects that there is something between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1939-01-05
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Shajarat al-Durr
Overview: In the 13th century AD, the Turkish slave girl (Shajarat al-Durr) captures the heart of (Al-Malik Al-Salih) and he marries her so that she can interfere in the affairs of the country and plot and plan conspiracies and schemes when the war against the Crusaders breaks out. It happens that (Al-Malik Al-Salih) dies during the war, so she hides the news of his death so that the soldiers in the battle will not be shaken, and she continues to rule and command in his name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1935-02-26
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Banknote
Overview: A frivolous woman who takes a lover every day, integrates into high society to set her nets around pleasure seekers, and with the events she changes and becomes a loyal wife living with her husband and son, she is accused of killing her husband, and the truth comes out as there is a con man and a woman plotting and scheming against her.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Proxy Wife
Overview: On a ship traveling to Egypt, Burhan kills Amina Hanem to steal her jewelry that the jeweler Cohen had offered her. However, the girl Nahid, who looks like Amina, sees him and orders him to return what he stole to Cohen. She wears Amina's clothes to impersonate her, in exchange for not exposing his crime. In Egypt, Nahid meets Amina's husband, pretending to be his wife. Amina's husband discovers the truth and fights with Burhan. In the fight, Enayat, Amina's husband's lover, is injured. He kills Burhan to make it look like Burhan killed Enayat and then committed suicide. Amina's husband lives with Nahed pretending to be his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1936-02-09
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Zuleikha loves Ashour
Overview: Ashour lives happily with his kind-hearted wife until one of her relatives tries to separate her from her husband Ashour, with the help of one of the girls who tames lions in the circus, who is able to make Ashour believe that he is a very attractive man to whom women are attracted.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Omm el Saad
Overview: Overnight, the situation changes from one extreme to another. This is what happened to Umm Al-Saad after she accepted to live in humiliation in her wealthy uncle’s palace and work as a maid, to the point that she was accused of theft and his wife threw her out. But fate decreed that her innocence would be revealed after the illness of the uncle became severe, and his wife and children neglected him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-11-04
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Return of the absent
Overview: The boy runs away from his parents' home and his mother dies of grief over him. Time turns against them and their situation worsens, and their hope becomes that the absent son will return. A young man arrives at the house, impersonating the absent son, but as soon as he sees the kind father and the gentle sister, his heart overflows with repentance and love, and he devotes his life to serving them and making them happy. He becomes passionately in love with the girl who thinks he is her brother.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-11-03
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