Mary Queeny

Mary Queeny
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

References

  1. ^ IMDB on Mary Queeny
  2. ^ IMDB on Assia Dagher

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