Leila Mourad

Leila Mourad ( Arabic ليلى مراد, DMG Lailā Murād , also Laila Morad , Laïla Mourad , Layla Mourad , Layla Murad , Leyla Murad , Lila Murad ; real .: Lilian Ibrahim Zaki Mordechai ; * February 17, 1918 in Cairo ; † November 21, 1995 in Cairo) was an Egyptian actress and singer.

Life

The daughter of the Egyptian-Jewish composer and cantor Zaki Mourad and sister of the actor Munir Mourad attended the mission school of Notre Dame de Apotres and received singing lessons from her father and Dawud Hosny . She performed at the age of fourteen and sang a song at the opening of the Egyptian state broadcaster when she was sixteen. As an actress, she became known in Mohamed Karim's musical comedy Yahia El Hob (1938) alongside Mohammed Abdel Wahab . Between 1939 and 1944 she made five films with the director Togo Mizrahi .

In 1945 Mourad married the director Anwar Wagdi , and in 1947 she converted to Islam. She made seven films with Wagdi before her divorce in 1953. In 1953 she was elected the official voice of the "Egyptian Revolution" . Rumors that emerged that same year that she was a spy and donated money to Israel led to her being boycotted by several Egyptian radio stations. The rumors spread by her divorced husband later proved unfounded.

In his second marriage, Mourad was married to the Egyptian officer Wagih Abaza before she married the director Fatin Abdel Wahab in 1954 . From this marriage, the actor Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab emerged. In 1955 Mourad shot her last film El habib el maghul with Hassan El- Seity .

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SURNAME	Mourad, Leila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Murād Laila; Morad, Laila; Mourad, Laïla; Mourad, Layla; Murad, Leyla; Murad, Layla; Murad, Lila; Ibrahim Zaki Mordechai, Lilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian film actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cairo
DATE OF DEATH	November 21, 1995
Place of death	Cairo