Murād, Laylá, 1918-1995
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Name (Hebrew)
מוראד, לילה, 1918-1995
Name (Latin)
Murād, Laylá, 1918-1995
Name (Arabic)
مراد، ليلى، 1918-
Other forms of name
Laylá Murād, 1918-1995
Mourad, Laila, 1918-1995
Mourad, Leila, 1918-1995
Murad, Leila, 1918-1995
Murad, Layla, 1918-
Layla Murad, 1918-
Mourad, Laila, 1918-
Date of birth
1918
Date of death
1995
Associated country
Egypt
Occupation
Actresses
Singers
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- A geniza, 2015:title page (Leila Mourad)
- Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Murad, Layla; popular singer; born 17 February 1918 in Cairo, Egypt; sang one of her original pieces in the movie "The Victims" (1932); Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab, the leading male singer of his generation and a dominant figure in the cinema business, cast her alongside him in his third film, "Long Live Love" (1938); made twenty-seven films (1938-1955); next five films for Togo Mizrahi, a pioneer of the industry who turned her into a superstar; played in "The Flirtation of Girls" (1949), an iconic film from the post-World War II boom in production; publicly converted to Islam; "Layla, Daughter of Nobility" (1954), the best of her late films and reminiscent of her early work; made only two more films; retired in 1955; "I Ask about You" was judged best song by a panel of critics (1954); the Syrian government banned her music from state radio and disallowed screening of her films (until 1958); recorded some 1,200 songs over her career, many of them composed by the leading musicians of the day; died 21 November 1995 in Cairo, Egypt)
- Internet movie data base website, 12-23-2004(Laila Mourad; Egyptian film actress, singer; b. 2-17-1918, Cairo, Egypt; d. 11-21-1995; Cairo, Egypt; married to Egyptian film director Anwar Wagdi from 1945-1953)
- Ṭanṭāwī, Ṣ. Riḥlat ḥubb maʻa Laylá Murād, 1979 (subj.)t.p. (Laylá Murād) p. 329 (b. 2/17/18)
- Wikipedia, April 5, 2016:under Leila Mourad (Leila Murad; February 17, 1918-November 21, 1995; was a Jewish-Egyptian singer and actress; also credited as "Layla Murad"; born in Alexandria on February 17, 1918 to Ibrahim Zaki Mordechai and Gamilah Salmon; father was a respected singer, musician, and religious cantor, (Hazzan); mother was a Jewish Egyptian of Polish origin; relationship with her family was not an easy one, possibly due to her conversion to Islam)
- Tantawi, S. Rihlat hubb maa Layla Murad, 1979 (subj.)t.p. (Layla Murad) p. 329 (b. 2/17/18)
- Internet movie data base website, 12-23-2004(Laila Mourad; Egyptian film actress; b. 2-17-1918, Cairo, Egypt; d. 11-21-1995; Cairo, Egypt; married to Egyptian film director Anwar Wagdi from 1945-1953)
- The Author's ليلى مراد, [١٩٩٥].
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Laila Mourad
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Wikipedia description:
Leila Mourad or Layla Morad (Arabic: ليلى مراد; February 17, 1918 – November 21, 1995) was an Egyptian singer and actress, and one of the most prominent superstars in Egypt and the entire Arab world in her era. Born Lilian Zaki Ibrahim Mourad in the El Daher District in Cairo, she later changed her name to Leila Mourad as a stage name. Leila married three times and divorced three times. She died in 1995.
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