Mary Queeny
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Early life
Mary Boutros Younis was born in 1913 to a Lebanese Christian family in Lebanon. Her mother's cousin was Asaad Dagher, a writer and journalist at the Al-Ahram newspaper.[1]
Career
In 1923 Queeny moved to Cairo with her aunt, actress and film producer Assia Dagher, and started acting in 1929.[1] Her first role was in 1929 in the film Ghadat al-sahara (The Desert Beauty), and she went on to star in all of her aunt's subsequent films.[2]
Queeny became a popular actress and producer in a pioneering age of Egyptian cinema.[2] She appeared in 20 films and was among the first women in Egypt to appear on screen without a veil.[1]
Queeny married Ahmed Galal[3][4] (1897-1947)[5] in 1940.[6] Until her retirement in 1982, she produced all of the films he directed.[2] With her husband she founded Galal Films in 1942; in 1944 it became Galal Studios. During the Golden Age of Egyptian film, it was one of the five largest studios.[2] The first films shot at the studios were Om al-Saad, Amirat al-Ahlam (Princess of Dreams) and 'Aoudat al-Gha'eb (The Return of the Departed). After her husband's sudden death in 1947, Queeny and her son, Nader Galal, continued to run the studios.[7] The studios were later nationalised by the Nasser government.[2]
In 1958 she established a film colour processing laboratory, which in 1963 she sold to the Misr Company (later Misr International), which was later acquired by Youssef Chahine and his niece, Marianne Khoury.[1]
Personal life and death
Film director Nader Galal is the son of Queeny and Ahmad Galal.[2] Their grandson Ahmed Nader Galal is also a director.
Queeny died on 23 November 2003 in Cairo of a heart attack. She was 90.[1]
Selected filmography
Actress
- Ghadat al-sahara (1929)
- Pangs Of Conscience (1931)
- When A Woman Loves (1933)
- Rebellious Girl (1940)(in which she took her first leading role)
- Prisoner No 17 (1949)
- The Seventh Wife (1950)
- Sacrificing My Love (1951).
- Women Without Men (1953), the last in which she acted, directed by Youssef Chahine
Producer
- Dawn of a New Day (1965)
References
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External links
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