Anwar Wagdi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anwar was born in the Cairo district of El Daher, Cairo.[4] His father, Yehia Wagdy El-Fattal, immigrated to Egypt from Syria with his family in the 19th century for economic reasons.[citation needed] Anwar's Egyptian mother, Muhiba El-Rikaby, was from Cairo. Anwar grew up very poor and was known for his extraordinary ambition and desire to amass wealth. Anwar Wagdy was married to Egyptian actresses Elham Hussein, Leila Mourad (three times), and Leila Fawzy. He died at 51 in Sweden while seeking treatment for polycystic kidney disease. Anwar Wagdy began his acting career as an extra in 1922 in the Youssef Wahbi Theatre Company's production of Julius Caesar. He quickly leaped to stardom and played leading roles in and/or directed 92 Egyptian films between the 1932 and 1955. He achieved particular success partnering with his wife, Egyptian legend Leila Mourad. Youssef Wahbi directed his first film: "Defense" in 1934 and called "Anwar Wagdy" to take part in this film with him. After the failure of a film caused some financial problems for Youssef Wahbi and producer, which resulted in Anwar to join the National Force Theater, which was founded in 1935. Anwar Wagdi found that cinema is more suited to his talent and more in tune with its aspirations because of its popularity and its ability to reach a wider audience. Throughout that period, he made "Wings of the Desert", in 1939.[8] Anwar Wagdy became a star, as directors of the ...
The Flirtation of Girls
(1949)
Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private ... (more)
Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private ... (more)
The Victory of Youth (1941)
Amir El Entikam (1950)
Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo. (more)
Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo. (more)
Raya and Sakina
(1953)
Dramatic rendition of a real life crime wave that terrorized the city of Alexandria, Egypt, between the years 1920 and 1922. Women are disappearing without a trace in what looked like the work of a serial killer. Being Egypt's first ever case of serial killings, ... (more)
Dramatic rendition of a real life crime wave that terrorized the city of Alexandria, Egypt, between the years 1920 and 1922. Women are disappearing without a trace in what looked like the work of a serial killer. Being Egypt's first ever case of serial killings, ... (more)
Layla the Country Girl (1941)
Laila is a rich rural girl raised by her aunt who succeeds in marrying her off to her son, a doctor who just returned from England. But the doctor lives a reckless life, and he looks down on Laila who turns into a beautiful modern girl after moving to Cairo. (more)
Laila is a rich rural girl raised by her aunt who succeeds in marrying her off to her son, a doctor who just returned from England. But the doctor lives a reckless life, and he looks down on Laila who turns into a beautiful modern girl after moving to Cairo. (more)
Leila, Daughter of the Poor (1946)
Gold (1953)
Anwar Wagdi plays vagabond musician Alfredo, who comes across an abandoned baby in the night. He tries his best to get our heroes someone to take it and raise it. When that fails, he has no choice but to raise it on his own. He names the child, Dabab, after the ... (more)
Anwar Wagdi plays vagabond musician Alfredo, who comes across an abandoned baby in the night. He tries his best to get our heroes someone to take it and raise it. When that fails, he has no choice but to raise it on his own. He names the child, Dabab, after the ... (more)
The Will (1939)
The story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr. (more)
The story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr. (more)
Fatmah (1947)
Om Koultoum stars in this musical-drama as Fatmah, Nurse to a Pasha who falls in love with his younger brother and marries him in secret. But soon their relationship deteriorates and her husband refuses to recognize the child she expects from him. (more)
Om Koultoum stars in this musical-drama as Fatmah, Nurse to a Pasha who falls in love with his younger brother and marries him in secret. But soon their relationship deteriorates and her husband refuses to recognize the child she expects from him. (more)
The Beast (1954)
Abdel Sabour was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his ... (more)
Abdel Sabour was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his ... (more)
Passion and Revenge (1944)
A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process. (more)
A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process. (more)
Sons of Aristocrats (1932)
The film is a look into the problems facing Egyptian men who marry foreign women, heavily portraying the women as immoral gold diggers and cheats. (more)
The film is a look into the problems facing Egyptian men who marry foreign women, heavily portraying the women as immoral gold diggers and cheats. (more)
Directed by Niazi Mostafa. (more)
Cleobatra (1943)
A historic drama that chronicles the story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony, the Roman commander who fell in love with her, and the war that Octavian led to eliminate them, as the fate of the three intertwines in this conflict. (more)
A historic drama that chronicles the story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony, the Roman commander who fell in love with her, and the war that Octavian led to eliminate them, as the fate of the three intertwines in this conflict. (more)
Victims of Love (1944)
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy. (more)
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy. (more)
Directed by Anwar Wagdi. (more)
بنت الاكابر (1953)
The film belongs to a series of films like Anwar Wagdy, with his wife Laila Murad, who promoted the idea of alienating class differences between people, especially lovers. The film is not accurate in presenting the information it provides. For example, the titles ... (more)
The film belongs to a series of films like Anwar Wagdy, with his wife Laila Murad, who promoted the idea of alienating class differences between people, especially lovers. The film is not accurate in presenting the information it provides. For example, the titles ... (more)
Kiss in the Desert (1927)
The foreign girl Hilda falls for Shafik, a Bedouin young man who lives in a village in the desert. When his uncle Abdel Qader is killed, the villagers accuse Shafik of killing him and he is forced to flee into the desert with the members of a gang that he joins. (more)
The foreign girl Hilda falls for Shafik, a Bedouin young man who lives in a village in the desert. When his uncle Abdel Qader is killed, the villagers accuse Shafik of killing him and he is forced to flee into the desert with the members of a gang that he joins. (more)