Remembering Faten Hamama On Her Birth Anniv.

Today marks the 90th birth anniversary of late actress Faten Hamama, the most beautiful actress to ever grace the Arab screen.

Despite her death, the cute actress, who was the epitome of love and beauty, left an indelible mark in the minds of people.

Often referred to as the ‘'Lady of the Arab Screen", Hamama featured in numerous films that garnered attention from people across the Arab world.

"If in the Arab world somebody has the unique distinction of appearing in the most number of successful films in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, it is undoubtedly Hamama,"  Egypt's critic Tarik El-Shenawy said.

"A career spanning over 40 years saw her delivering splendid performances in many great romantic movies and social-drama shows," he noted.

Born on 27th May 1931 in Cairo to an Egyptian middle-class family in Mansoura, Egypt, Hamama was one of the top leading ladies of her time.

In 1936, the so-called ”Lady of the Arab Screen“ won the “Children’s beauty pageant in Egypt” title for the first time.

Later that year, her father took her to the theater to see an Assia Dagher film; when the audience clapped for Assia, she told her father she felt they were clapping for her.

According to the Elcinema website, her parents sent her picture to the director Mohammed Karim who was looking for a young female child to play the role of a small girl with the well-known actor and musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab in his new film. After an audition, Abdel Wahab decided she was the one he was looking for.

Thereafter, Hamama acted as a child artist in the film ‘Happy Day’ at just seven years old. After this film, Hamama’s work was appreciated by many directors. At the age of only sixteen, in “The Two Orphan” film, she was introduced as a heroine. It was the year 1949.

Although it became popular with the maven director Mohammed Karim’s earlier films and was also recognized by audiences, it was only in 1955 that she reached the first heights of her career arrived.

The veteran actress is known for starring in shows such as (Road of Hope), (Land of Peace), (Sleepless),(The Barred Road), (The Virgin Wife), (Lady of the Castle), (Among the Ruins), (The Nightingale’s Prayer), (River of Love) and (I Will Not Confess).

Hamama married three times; the first was the Egyptian renowned director Eizz EL Dein Zulfakar, the father of her daughter, Nadia. The second was the popular actor Omar Elsherif and they gave birth to her son Tarik; they got porced in 1974. Her last marriage was to Mohamed Abdel Wahab who was her personal doctor.