Ali AlKassar
Acting
Biography
A pioneer of musical comedy, he was born in the Sayeda Zeinab district in 1887. He began his artistic career in 1908 by working in the Zainab Theatre Company, which he founded in 1907. He then worked in the George Abyad Company, where he met Amin Sedky. Together, they formed an acting company in 1916, named after Ali Al-Kassar and Mustafa Amin. On January 6, 1919, he moved his company to his new theatre, the Majestic, on Emad El-Din Street, with his partner and playwright, Amin Sedky. It was the strongest and most successful comedy company, without competition, and it withstood all the challenges that the history of modern Egyptian theatre has known. The two partners remained together until they parted ways at the end of the summer of 1925. Ali Al-Kassar continued to work alone with a troupe bearing his name at the Majestic Theatre until 1939. Throughout that period, he remained steadfast and artistically brilliant, regularly presenting full theatrical seasons to his audience, summer and winter, a new play every three weeks, and eleven concerts, including matinees and soirées, per week. He also traveled with his troupe throughout the governorates of Upper and Lower Egypt and sister Arab countries. Ali Al-Kassar's plays were written by many prominent writers, such as Amin Sedqi, Badi' Khairi, Hamed Al-Sayed, and others. He also presented more than two hundred operettas to the theatre. Ali Al-Kassar's immortal artistic character (Othman Abdel Basset) in his plays represented a symbol of the popular hero who triumphed for his popularity on the stage of that era. He presented it in a variety of different roles, and he never presented it as a servant or a doorman in one of his novels. He remained that way until he dissolved his troupe in 1950 after he became tired of searching for a stage to work on constantly. This was after he left his great theater (the Majestic) following a dispute with its owner, Khawaja Kosti, due to the lack of theaters at that time and the proliferation of cinemas that had taken over the scene instead of theaters. Director and producer Togo Mizrahi exploited the success of the character (Othman Abdel Basset) on the stage, and transferred it to the white screen in nine films, which were not presented by Ali Al-Kassar. It is worth noting that the success of the character (Othman Abdel Basset) did not require him to be presented in the cinema as a doorman or servant. In all the 36 films that presented the character, directed by major directors such as Hussein Fawzy, Hassan El Imam, Mahmoud Zulfikar, and Fouad Khalil, the character was not presented as a servant or doorman except in the film (A Bullet in the Heart). Ali Al-Kassar passed away in Kasr Al-Aini Hospital on January 15, 1957, at the age of 69, after a long struggle with poverty and illness.
Known For
Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures. He tries to solve his financial problems with thehe contents of the cave, but as Qasim enters the picture, things turn irreversibly.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Revenge
Ihsan arrives from Lebanon to Cairo, and works with his friend Marzouk in a nightclub. Massoud Bey asks them to perform at his daughter's birthday party. Then he learns that his brother died and Mabrouka, his niece arrives from the countryside, and he tries to kill her because she's the sole heir to his brother.
Qadam Al Kheir
Othman Abdelbaset suffers from the intervention of his mother-in-law in his life with his wife. He always worries about his assistants in the pancake shop he runs until his mother-in-law succeeds in cutting him off with his wife and turning his life into hell. He thinks of committing suicide and introduces his idea to his aides. The three go to sea to carry out the idea, but one of the sailors sees them leading the boat trip to one of the islands and they are on an adventure inside the Prince of the Island where they fight the bad guys who want to take over the island rule
Nour al-Din and the Three Sailors
When Narges, the only child of wealthy parents, goes missing, a middle-class man takes her in and raises her. As she falls in love with a poor guy, her parents find her and bring her back. A wealthy guy proposes to her but she remains faithful to her old sweetheart.
Narges
Lawyer Raouf meets Yasriya Hanem, the daughter of Hassan Bey Abu El-Dahab, and falls in love with her and tries to reach her. Raouf bets with his friend that Raouf will marry Yasriya. A quarrel occurs that ends with the friend's lover shooting Raouf. The sound of the bullets restores his cousin's sight and she nurses him. Raouf marries her after he is certain that his love for her is stronger than his love for Yasriya.
I'm No Angel
Osman Abdel Basit is a Nubian man working in a school who tries to get three pounds to pay his mortgage, which is due , otherwise he will lose his house. He moves from one job to another, and from one chance to the next to get the three pounds.
Lend Me Three Pounds
Muhammad Karim directed adaptation of Tawfiq Al-Hakim's play. Mohsen is a reckless young man who has many relationships. He meets the girl of his dreams by chance and falls in love with her immediately, but he discovers that she is his friend's fiancée, so he decides to stay away from her, but she has fallen in love with him.
A Bullet in the Heart
Othman, a fisherman, finds a baby inside a floating basket while fishing, so he takes him, raises him and teaches him fishing. Othman gets arrested for fishing in a protected area, but the prince's daughter intervenes to exempt him. A genie than appears to Othman and tells him the story of his adopted son Morgan.
A Thousand and One Nights
A girl named Souad shows up to her father, who was the result of an affair he had with her mother. The father kept it a secret in fear of his family's reputation. Souad works in a nightclub and when the manager knows the truth of Souad, he starts extorting huge money from the father.
Ghaltet Ab
A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window around him with the help of her boyfriend until she marries him out of the greed for his wealth, and actually this is done without the knowledge of the wife and children. The daughter has no choice but to inform her mother of this.
killer mother
Karima becomes lonely after her parents separate and enrolled in a boarding school. Feelings of deprivation and loneliness increase in (Karima) with the passage of days, and when she reaches the age of puberty, she decides to live with her mother, who leads her in the same way that she takes, and then works as a dancer like her, and tries to entrap a lover Her mother is in love with her.
Ana W Omy
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خضرة والسندباد القبلي
Khadra's father, Hajj Abdullah, dies, leaving her and her brother Fares a huge fortune that he stored in Balalis. Khadra is surprised when their cousin, who has been absent for a long time, returns to them in an attempt to plunder the money, taking advantage of Khadra's rural naivety to obtain wealth. She resorts to one of the young men whom she throws into Khadra's path to deceive her.
Mughamarat Khadra
After he neglects his work, the phone operator Osman is fired for being preoccupied with his sweetheart, the maid Yasmina. When he goes to a new job, he discovers that everyone has him confused with Ali Bey, the company's owner, due to their resemblance, a fact that he exploits to his advantage.
Osman and Ali
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صاحبة العمارة
The love between two singers is tarnished when jealousy rears its head, as each one begins to be jealous of the other's fans. After a violent quarrel between them, the singer thinks that her sweetheart is cheating on her. She runs away and meets a deceitful man who drags her into his reckless life.
Congratulations to you
Qatayef's daughter, Samara, dreams of a life other than that of her mother. She wants luxury and a life of extravagance. Rabih, the driver of Bey, Mohsen, who claims that he is Mohsen Bey, is well-known, so Katayev is the daughter of Bakir Pasha, the owner of the Grand Palace. "Mohsen Bey" who is "Spring" and the ceremony begins already only to It comes as the family of "good" preacher "Amany" daughter Bakir Pasha. After many comical circumstances the truth becomes clear and the driver knows that she is not the daughter of Basha. Katayev envisions that her plan has been corrupted and that the marriage of the rich has failed in turn.
على أد لحافك
Othman works as a bank collector and lives a quiet life, but his mother-in-law makes his life miserable. One night, he drinks too much and dreams that a gang has robbed him to steal the money he has in his possession, and that he has become accused and escaped from the police while dressed as a woman. Will the dream become reality?
Seven O'clock
Osman is a tram conductor, Sayed is a tram driver, and his son, Taata, loves singing. Taata meets the dancer, Nosa, and they fall in love. She invites him to visit her at the cabaret. Nosa's friend, Ajoura, is annoyed by Taata's appearance. A wealthy man offers him a job as a singer with Nosa in the cabaret. Osman tries to push his son to marry his neighbor.