Sabah
Birthday: Born in 1927-11-10 in Wadi Chahrour, Lebanon
Deathday: 2014-11-26
Sabah was a Lebanese film actress and singer. Sabah was among the first Arabic singers to perform at the Olympia, Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. She is considered one of three Lebanese icons, along with Fairuz and Wadih El Safi. She was an actress and producer, known for Wahabtak Hayati (1956), Sharia el hub (1958), and The Temple of Love (1961). She was previously married to Rushdi Abazah, Wassim Tabbara, Anwar Mansi, Baligh Hamdy, Nagib Shammas, Ahmed Farag, Joe Hammoud, Fadi Lebnan, Prince Khaled Bin Saud Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, and Youssef Chaban. She died on November 26, 2014 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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الحب الضائع
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The Green Doorstep
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A naive man Mahrous from Upper Egypt arrives in Cairo meets a fraudster. The fraudster feels that Mahrous has reassured him that he can sell him the famous green threshold square...
Welcome to Love
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Featuring a tour-de-force performance by sour-faced Abd us-Salim in-Nabulsy as the puffed-up Professor Hamdi, 'the greatest of all scientists, a modern-day Edison, and the overlooked inventor of nasal batteries and youth elixir', whose latest scheme involves projecting the mind beyond the body....
Alribat Almuqadas
Character: Samiha
Dr. Raafat does not care about his young wife, Samiha, as much as he cares about reading and following the works of the famous novelist, the monk of thought. So the wife decides to search for the monk himself for the secret of his popularity and his possession of all her husband’s senses, but soon she, in turn, becomes one of his enthusiastic students, and when she fails to flirt with him and seduce him, she decides to start... To write a story inspired by her life....
أيام اللولو
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Habibet Al-kol
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The Pearl Necklace
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Salim is a simple farmer who loves Bedour and wants to marry her. He comes across a letter that he thinks is written to his lover, but it turns out that it's written by Bedour whom Ghawar loves and he returns from overseas with a pearl necklace for her....
Fatinat aljamahir
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Qalby Yahwak
Character: Souad
Souad is in love with the daughter of one of the merchants (Ahmed), who works for her father, but her father forces her to marry the teacher (Sayed), so she marries him, but she suffers a lot in her married life, but as fate would have it, her husband is involved in an accident while he is travelling....
Layali Al-Sharq
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Enta Omri
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Wajih Bey (Abdul Salam al-Nabulsi) is a very rich man who has everything, but he lacks happiness. His assistants try to make him happy in any way by bringing in great singers (Fahad Ballan - Najah Salam - Sabah) or dancing parties. He goes out to the street dressed as a Roman, so he is suspected of his mental faculties and imprisoned in a prison. So he hopes for poverty for the sake of happiness. He lavishes his assistant's fiancé, Amal Al-Faqir, with money and appoints him with him in the compa...
The Rebellious
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القلب له واحد
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Mawal
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Hotel of Dreams
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Two friends work as guards at a luxurious villa, whose owner only comes at long intervals. They turn it into a hotel but the owner suddenly comes with his fiancée, and he discovers the situation,causing funny situations to happen....
Guitar of Love
Character: سلوى
Salwa is a poor young woman who sells grilled corn to people on one of the beaches of Lebanon,she falls in love with a guitarist she meets by chance, while looking for her mother and sister who got lost since she was young, and then strange coincidences begin to happen to her....
Utmost Joy
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A group of Egyptian soldiers returns from the Yemen War, including Men'em who promises his friends a grand wedding. As Sheikh Hassan claims to be an acquaintance of artists, he gets in trouble when it is discovered that belly dancer Nagwa Fouad doesn't know him....
عصابة النساء
Character: Seham
Two Turkish reporters are in Beirut, investigating Lebanese life. They do not find any scoop and are about to leave the country when they discover something juicy, an all-female gang of forgers. Adventure can begin....
Sahifat el sawabek
Character: نادية
The story revolves around a young man who squandered all his wealth, joins a gang to counterfeit money, falls in love with a singer, marries her, but the police arrest him, the young man gets out of prison and tries to take revenge on the gang leader who tried to marry his wife during the period he was imprisoned, the gang leader plans to harm him in his work in which he works in order to support his family....
The Warm Nights
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سر أبي
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Eghraa
Character: Neamat
The events revolve around the character of the girl Nemat (Sabah), who aspires to have a prosperous life to compensate for the suffering she has endured. Neamat pretends to be rich to lure the wealthy young man Hussein (Shukri Sarhan) into falling in love with her. Nemat's plan faces many difficulties and challenges as events unfold....
نهاية حب
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Salam e alhabayib
Character: Sabah
A young singer refuses to marry the owner of the nightclub where she works, and expels her for her refusal....
How Can I Forget You
Character: Zanouba
Two orphaned sisters, one working as a singer (Sabah), and the other working as a dancer (Nadia Jamal), decide to escape from their mother and her husband who takes their money. They go to a famous singer (Farid al-Atrash) to work in his band. He discovers the talent of the singer and falls for her....
Youth and beauty
Character: Nehad
Mounir grows up between two anxious parents. The mother knows that her husband frequents the apartment of singer Nihad. Mounir tries to find out his mother's secret. She tells him that his father spent all his savings on Ghania. He decides to keep his father away from Nihad. He goes to the night club where she works, so that she can fall in love with him. He plays the role of a lovelorn lover for her, and begins to recover the money that his father spends on her....
A Lebanese at the university
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A young college man and a girl fall in love, but another girl loves the same man, so she tries to get between them by unjustly informing his father about him....
Bolbol Afandy
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(Sabah) is an arrogant actress, arrogant and married to the old man lover (Hassan Fayek) and lives with them his daughter Wafa (Samiha Tawfiq) engaged to the young man Munir (Kamal Hussein) and treated as a wife or mother, betraying her husband with her lover Abdullatif Abdal (Istfan Rusti) Aziz Bey, and he fought to blackmail her with the help of his wife, the employment of Znobh Alexandrian (Isaf Abdel Maqsoud)....
Love of my life
Character: Nadia
A wealthy, good-for-nothing man wastes his fortune, loses his house and moves in with his private secretary's family. He falls in love with the secretary's daughter. After a few disastrous attempts at salaried employment, he pawns the family ring and buys a taxi cab. The secretary's son's fiancee, a popular singer and actress, is being blackmailed by a hoodlum ex-lover. Our intrepid reformed taxi driver comes to the rescue. A madcap comedy directed by Niazi Mustapha. Songs performed by Sabah....
Paris and Love
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The film revolves around a poor family that financially depends heavily on their daughter, Halla, who works as a singer in small bars. One day, the daughter meets Aziz, a young millionaire who returns from Paris and she falls in love with him. The family encourages this relationship until she marries this millionaire in order to lift them out of poverty in which they live. However, Halla refuses to consummate the marriage due to the disparity in the social level but she's still in love with Aziz...
Khataf Merati
Character: Samira
A young man and a girl get married without love. They are visited by the wife’s cousin and the husband’s cousin. The wife seizes this opportunity and approaches the husband’s cousin to make her husband jealous. The husband also courtes the wife’s cousin to make her jealous....
Faeil Khayr
Character: سهير هانم
A poor young man loves art and music. There is a love relationship between him and a rich girl. This girl appreciates his art and creation. Her father rejects this relationship, but stands in her way and declares that he does not agree with their marriage. His argument is that the young man is still in the first path of art. His daughter in case the artist stabilizes materially...
أختى ستيتة
Character: هدهد
Nabil is a famous singer and a member of the Thousand and One Nights band. Rising singer Hudhod wishes to work with him. She follows him to Kafr El-Zayat where he's meeting his wet nurse and pretends to be his sister in breastfeeding to get his attention, while Anwaar pretends to love him to benefit from his fame....
The Millionaire
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Valley of Death
Character: Najla
The Iranian police sends a detective to Beirut cooperating the international police to identify head of the dangerous heroin smugglers named "Scorpion" ....
الحب كده
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Sabah wants her father to marry her from a man she does not like, and can not find a solution but convince her cousin to marry her in front of people until her lover returns from abroad, her cousin plays the role well but he feels love towards her through the honeymoon trip in a hotel and hides it His feelings, and events follow....
Soft Hands
Character: كريمة عبدالسلام
A prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim....
The Love Street
Character: Karima
A poor graduated singer struggling to get his chance, disguises into an old music teacher to work in a girl's school. A bet is launched between two of the leading students to trap this teacher into their affection....
The Second Man
Character: Lamia
Esmat Kazem runs a smuggling operation between Egypt and Lebanon, using his cabaret in Cairo as a front. Ibrahim, the smuggling ring's operative in Beirut, is murdered over a dispute with Esmat. The police relay the news of the murder to Ibrahim's sister Lamia, a former singer at Esmat's cabaret and an old flame of Esmat's. When she learns of her brother's death, she decides to avenge her brother's murder by co-operating with the police and bringing down Esmat's smuggling ring....
The City's Revolt
Character: Fatima
Fatima's mother dies after giving birth to her. Her father observes that the women in her family die when they put their first children. And to avoid this fate her father keeps her away from any man. But Fatima falls in love with Ahmed....
Melody of My Love
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When a musician's family faces financial difficulty, the daughter starts working as a singer in a nightclub owned by her mother's lover. When she learns about her mother's affair, the girl claims that she's in a relationship with the nightclub's owner in order to save her mother's reputation....
Ladies Barber
Character: Herself
The film revolves around three friends, one of whom decides to develop his father's shop for shaving. It is divided into three sections: one for men, the other for women and the third for animals. The first customer is a maid and her mistress is married. After that, he married a rich master to avenge her ex-husband....
The Troublemakers
Character: Rasha
Rico is the director of an Egyptian theater company, a message comes from a concert in Lebanon to go to Lebanon, and upon arrival there, the band is surprised that the contractor died, and the wife refuses to fulfill the contract concluded with the band, the band suffers from unemployment and looking for a job, fall heroine The band in love with a wealthy young man trying to help the girl....
This Was My Father's Crime
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A big lawyer is involved with a girl demanding marriage, but he refuses where his social status does not allow him to be associated with her, and the girl puts her child and calls her Samiha and then she leaves life before the girl grows up to disclose her father, Samiha grows up and works in a worker, and the lawyer grows until he becomes a famous lawyer. Samiha gets to know Samir Bey, who assgresses her and escapes from her to the Levant, but Samiha insists on resorting to the judiciary, and S...
Three Women
Character: Shams
Three different stories about three women. Three women, the first (Hana), who loves (Adel), but she meets (Sami) to also fall in love with him, the second widow (Tawahida), who loves (Yusef) the employee of the Muslim Council, but he is married, and the third (Shams), the singer who falls in love with Fathi But he lives at a loss because of her sitting with clients, what happens to the three women...
Nar Elshouq
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(Sabah), the famous singer, agrees that her daughter (Howaida) will travel to Cairo in one of the nightclubs. Howaida meets (Sherif) and loves him, the sheriff tells his father Hassan that he wants to marry Howaida, the father denounces his son's behavior, as he had previously stood against his brother (Ali )’s marriage to Howaida's mother and still lives memories of his love for her, Sharif finds no way but To tell his uncle of his tragedy, he encourages him to continue to love and preserve him...
A Night When the Moon Cried
Character: Hanan
Famous singer Hanan's car breaks down, and she meets Ahmed who drives her with his car. Because Ahmed dreams of having a theater, he decides to take advantage of Hanan's growing feelings towards him and marries her to help him with his dream. But a surprise changes everything, messing up his plans....
Cairo at Night
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The Theater Lights Trio try to meet the singer Sabah, but her busy schedule forces her to postpone. As they grow to believe that the Maspero building's guard wants to kick them out, they go on a lot of comic adventures as they meet with a lot of celebrities including Shadya, Fayza Ahmed and Nagat....
Miss Mama
Character: نمرة
(Namira) is a girl who loves to sing, wandering in love with the famous singer (Mounir), who is preparing a new lyric operetta, and decides to create a contest to choose a new singer to perform in front of him in the operetta, and a tigress advances and wins, and in order to arouse Mounir's jealousy, she agrees with His father has to claim that they agree to marry, so will the trick deceive Munir?...
Rihlat El Saada
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A millionaire's daughter goes to Tunisia with her father's secretary, but she refuses to sing at concerts despite her beautiful voice. When she meets a flirty guy who tries to make her fall for him, she decides to teach him a lesson when she learns of his history with women....
Repentance
Character: وداد
After his wife's death, Ahmed gets to leave his kids alone because of his work. His children seek help from a singer called Wedad who takes care of them. Ahmed gets attracted to Wedad, and uses his children to get her to stay longer, but they don't know that she has a past that still haunts her....
House of Forbidden Pleasures
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Escaping the cruelty of the streets, Na'ima turns to a lady who runs a den for vice and gambling. Na'ima becomes a totally different person as she invents a new identity for herself, but when she meets Hasanin, other considerations have to be taken into account....
Ya Zalemni
Character: Afaf
On a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teacher thinks that he killed him by accident. He escapes and meets his daughter and tries to atone for what he thinks he has committed, and he helps her become a famous singer....
3 Men and a Woman
Character: سامية
Samya is a girl who is on the look for her white knight. First, she falls for the anchor Ahmed but after he proposes, she finds herself falling for the athlete Mokhtar. Then she falls for Dr. Galal, only to find herself unable to choose between the three of them....
Gouz Meraty
Character: Laila
Because of his recklessness, Ahmed divorces his wife for the third time, but he wants to return to her again, so they search for a solution, until they find Ustaz Hassan, and Ahmed agrees with him to marry his wife Laila for one day, but because of Ustaz Hassan's brother, the marriage extends for several days, during which Laila discovers Hassan's noble personality and wishes for him to be her husband....
Awal nazra
Character: Seham
A couple has a disagreement, after which the husband leaves his wife and daughter (Siham) in Lebanon and travels abroad. They get to know the boxer (Ezzat), Siham falls in love with him and he loves her back, but the mother falls in love with him too and tries to separate them by forcing (Siham) to marry a wealthy man, and she succeeds in doing so, but (Siham) refuses the marriage and travels to her father, and tries to convince him to return. (Ezzat)'s level deteriorates after his separation fr...
Hadaya
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A wealthy young man rejects the way his mother and sister live, and decides to rebel against this life by marrying a simple Upper Egyptian girl who respects traditions and social customs, which angers his mother and sister and they mistreat the wife, who discovers the relationship between her husband's sister and his friend and tries to mediate to end it....
The night is ours
Character: Nawal
Nawal is a singer in a traveling band. She admires Dr. Medhat and tries to win his admiration, but she is afraid of rejection due to the nature of her work. She is forced to pretend to him that she is a teacher, but with time he discovers her real profession, which pushes him even more to cling to her and marry her. Their relationship is put to a real test when a friend of hers is accused of a murder of which he is innocent....
Tareeq El Demoaa
Character: Samia Fouad
Ashraf Hamdi works as a supporting actor, and lives a peaceful life, but he leaves his only friend Saeed and his lover and colleague Faiza on the day he signed a contract to play a leading role opposite the great singing star Samia Fouad. He considered his acquaintance with Samia the first step towards achieving his goal, so he married her....
Kant Ayam
Character: Nadia Refaat
Jalal is a busy doctor with his patients all the time. His wife, Wafiya, decides to travel to Alexandria and he will join them in a few days. However, on his way back after dropping his wife off, he meets a beautiful girl with whom he spends most of his days....
A criminal on leave
Character: نازلي
A lawyer tries to realize what crime is, and whether it is inherited or as a result of upbringing and the environment, and the lawyer comes up with a criminal and decides to treat him well and prepare him with all the appropriate circumstances....