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Mary Queeny Circa 1945
Mary Queeny (Arabic: ماري كويني) was an Egyptian actress and film producer who was based in Egypt.
She was Born Mary Boutros Younis to a Christian family in Lebanon in 1913 and she died on 25 November 2003 in Cairo [1]
She moved to Cairo with her Mother Mary, and Aunt Assia Dagher.[2]
Popular actor and producer in a pioneering age of Egyptian cinema
Her Mother's cousin was Asaad Dagher, who was a writer and journalist at the famous Al-Ahram newspaper.
She was married to the Egyptian film actor and director Ahmed Galal; their son is the Egyptian film director Nader Galal. She was among the first women in Egypt to appear on screen without a veil, appeared in 20 films. Founded with Ahmed Galal a new company, Galal Films, in 1942; in 1944 it became Gala Studios. in 1958 she established a film colour processing laboratory, which in 1963 she sold to the Misr Company,now Misr International, was later acquired by Youssef Chahine and his niece, Marianne Khoury.
She died of a heart attack aged 90
Her best-known movies
- 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, was made by Egypt's leading living director, Youssef Chahine
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External links
Categories:- Egyptian film producers
- 1913 births
- 2003 deaths
- Egyptian actors
- Lebanese actors
- Naturalized citizens of Egypt
- Egyptian people of Lebanese descent
- Film producer stubs
- Egyptian actor stubs
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