Urgent.. 106 years since the screen brunette’s birth anniversary
Today, Tuesday, is the anniversary of the birth of one of the beauties of the time of beautiful art, the distinguished actress Madiha Yousry, whose real name is Hanouma Habib Khalil Ali, who was born on this day, December 3, 1918 in Cairo and received her education at the School of Arts.
The director was Mohamed Karim The first to discover it and it appeared for the first time with Mohamed Abdel Wahab in the movie “Forbidden Love.” As a smiling face, she also participated with him in the movie “Bullet in the Heart.” Which qualified her for the lead role for the first time in the movie “Dreams of Youth.” She got her real chance when Youssef Wehbe saw her performing a scene in one of the platoons, so he summoned her and his partner Togo Mizrahi, and offered her to work with him in three films without her working with anyone else. She was “Ibn Al-Haddad.” , "great artist" , "My children"
The artist Madiha Yousry influenced art with many films that are still among the main stations in the journey of fine art, and the film " “I’m leaving” The masterpiece of the late writer Youssef El Sebaei, which co-starred Imad Hamdy, is an important masterpiece in the history of Arab cinema. Her work with the distinguished artist Imad Hamdy is considered one of the best duos in Egyptian cinema, as she presented other works with him that are still present, including “Without Farewell.” , "Burning Heart" "Loyalty forever" , "There is no one but you," , "sins" "The groom arrives tomorrow" And other films that completed the stage of artistic maturity. Madiha Yousry worked in production, and among the films she produced was " “Too young for love” Starring Souad Hosni and Rushdi Abaza.
The artist Madiha Yousry had many talents, as she was not limited to acting only, but was also a painter, novelist, and writer, and her love for literature brought her close to the late Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad, Who was keen for her to attend the Akkad Salon, after he read to her one of the stories that was serialized in one of the newspapers about it. Time.
After overwhelming stardom, Madiha Yousry decided to retire permanently from the arts twice, the first time after her marriage to Sheikh Ibrahim Salama Al-Radi, the founder of the Shazliyya order, and the second after the movie “Al-Farah.” , which was her last cinematic work, with Mervat Amin and Hassan Hosni, with which she bid farewell to cinema before making the decision to retire permanently after 10 years, perhaps because she was no longer able to give artistically as much as she did. Some people say this, and perhaps because she did not find anything that would motivate her to return to the seventh art.
She was politically active, as she was a member of Parliament for seven years, the duration of her parliamentary term, and she refused during that period. All the offers she received to return to the screen, she preferred to preserve her history, and focus on Parliament.
During a long artistic career that extended until 2012, the able Madiha Yousry presented a number She played a wide variety of roles between comedy and tragedy, and her roles varied between the roles of the heroine, the daughter, the lover, then the mother and grandmother. She was honored at the "Cairo International Film Festival" For two consecutive years (2001 and 2002), the first about her romantic roles in cinema, and the second about her entire artistic work as an artist who enriched Egyptian cinema and its library with more than 100 cinematic works. In addition to these honors, Madiha Yousry headed the “Egyptian Oscars Film Festival” during that period. And the “Oscar of the Egyptian Song”, and she was keen to hold them on time, regularly and seriously. She died in the early hours of the morning of May 30, 2018 in Maadi Military Hospital in Cairo, after a long struggle with old age diseases.
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