Leila Mourad

Acting

Leila Mourad

Born — Died

1918-02-17 — 1995-11-21

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

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 to an Egyptian Jewish family, known for their patriotism in 1918 in the El Daher District in Cairo, she later changed her name to Leila Mourad as a stage-name. She made her first stage appearance, aged nine, at the Saalat Badi'a, one of Cairo's most successful Music Halls. The theatre had been founded in 1926 by the actress and dancer Badia Masabni, who became Mourad's patron. Her first film appearance, aged fifteen, was in the 1932 " Al-Dahaaya " (The…

Known for

The Flirtation of Girls poster
7.2

Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.

The Flirtation of Girls

1949

Singer of the Valley poster
NR

After the artist Wahid Fakhry travels around the world, he returns to Egypt to search for new talent for his impending project. He finds what he is looking for in the form of a poor girl who is selling Falafel.

Singer of the Valley

1947

Lady of The Train poster
5.4

Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling debts.

Lady of The Train

1952

Long Live Love! poster
8.0

Mohamed Fathy rents a new apartment facing the palace of Taher Pasha, Nadia's father. A misunderstanding occurs between Fathy and Nadia, and he discovers that she is the niece of his boss at the Bank of Egypt. As soon as Nadia complains to him, he decides to transfer him to Beni Suef. Fathy discovers the truth about the misunderstanding, and they fall in love. Nadia tries to request that the transfer order be cancelled.

Long Live Love!

1938

In a rainy night poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

In a rainy night

1939

My Heart is My Guide poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Heart is My Guide

1947

Film credits

1950s · 9 titles

Lady of The Train poster
5.4

Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling debts.

Lady of The Train

1952

Bent Al-Akaber poster
7.5

Laila is a beautiful and delicate woman. She lives with her grandfather in the Grand Palace, and he forbids her from going out or meeting strangers. The Pasha travels for Hajj, leaving Laila with her uncle to take care of her. Anwar and his colleague Shafshaq come to fix the broken phone in the palace. Anwar falls in love with Laila, believing that she is a housemaid, and they agree to get married.

Bent Al-Akaber

1953

Shore of Love poster
7.5

Leila Mourad one of the Orient's Divas stars in this classic musical romance as a poor girl who marries a wealthy young man while others try to break them apart.

Shore of Love

1950

The Unknown Beloved poster
6.0

Laila falls for Dr. Hussein who decides to marry her so that he could take on the responsibility for her heart surgery. Laila starts to believe that Hussein doesn't love her and that he only sees her as his patient, while Hussein thinks that Laila is in love with his friend.

The Unknown Beloved

1955

Flowers of Love poster
NR

Latif, Abdul-Ghani’s son, asks to marry Elham, Tayseer’s daughter. Elham refuses this marriage. Latif spreads rumors about Elham’s behavior, and Tayseer has no choice but to file a case against Abdul-Ghani, demanding large compensation. Latif agrees with his cousin Maher, who works in the field of civil aviation, to represent The role of passionate love and the lover to inspire.

Flowers of Love

1951

Life is Love poster
NR

Layla is a volunteer nurse at the red crescent helping the injured in Palestinian war. She falls in love with officer Adel , and during a raid he gets seriously injured and decides to disappear from her life. She gets married to her colleague and later discovers that Adel is in need of a critical surgery.

Life is Love

1954

Adam and Eve poster
8.0

Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza, in one night. Over time, the lives of the two sisters differ after marriage, and each of them tries to find happiness.

Adam and Eve

1951

Men Al-Qalb Lel Qalb poster
NR

Latfa works in cabarets and earns money by hunting and deceiving customers. Sherif Bey, a friend of her late father, helps her in this. She meets a wealthy customer and agrees with her to play the role of his wife in order to get rid of his marriage to a rich, idiot girl imposed on him by his father out of greed for her wealth.

Men Al-Qalb Lel Qalb

1952

Habib el-Rooh poster
8.0

The famous artist Youssef Fahmy discovers Laila's talent for singing. He encourages her to sing professionally against the wishes of her husband, Wahid, with whom she was living happily, which complicates their relationship.

Habib el-Rooh

1951

1940s · 15 titles

The Flirtation of Girls poster
7.2

Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.

The Flirtation of Girls

1949

Singer of the Valley poster
NR

After the artist Wahid Fakhry travels around the world, he returns to Egypt to search for new talent for his impending project. He finds what he is looking for in the form of a poor girl who is selling Falafel.

Singer of the Valley

1947

My Heart is My Guide poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Heart is My Guide

1947

Anbar poster
NR

Vim Anbar is a lyrical comedy film starring Laila Murad and Anwar Wagdy with a group of stars who participated with Laila Murad in singing the song that is dear to my heart. They are Ismail Yassin, Aziz Othman, Mahmoud Shoukoko,

Anbar

1948

Layla in the dark poster
7.0

Hussein and Laila are children who pledge to love. Circumstances separate them and they meet after they grow up and their feelings are renewed, but Laila is exposed to an accident that loses her sight, so she decides to sacrifice her love so that Hussein can avoid life with a co-wife.

Layla in the dark

1944

The Unknown Past poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Unknown Past

1946

Victims of Love poster
7.0

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.

Victims of Love

1944

Layla the Country Girl poster
9.0

Laila is a rich rural girl raised by her aunt who succeeds in marrying her off to her son, a doctor who just returned from England. But the doctor lives a reckless life, and he looks down on Laila who turns into a beautiful modern girl after moving to Cairo.

Layla the Country Girl

1941

Leila, ghadet el camelia poster
9.0

A night film adapted from the story of Ghada al-Kamiliya produced in 1942 and directed by Togo Mizrahi

Leila, ghadet el camelia

1942

Layla, Daughter of the Rich poster
7.0

Laila is a wealthy girl, with a father who has no will and a domineering wife. Her stepmother tries to marry her to his son so that the wealth does not go outside them. Laila decides to flee, and causes an accident with her car. Everyone thinks she is dead, but she ends up in a village, and a journalist sympathizes with her.

Layla, Daughter of the Rich

1946

Leila, Daughter of the Poor poster
7.0

Laila lives in the Sayeda Zeinab district. A woman invites her to her palace and introduces her to her fiancé, the young officer Wahid, as the daughter of Pasha Darwish Pasha. Laila is amazed by the palace and the party held there. After a while, Laila turns into a wealthy girl. Wahid's heart falls for Laila. Wahid proposes to Laila from her alleged father, Darwish Pasha, but he discovers her true identity.

Leila, Daughter of the Poor

1945

Love and Youth poster
9.0

Sameer is an unemployed young man. His father forces him to work in a shop. He meets Misbah, a colleague of his at work, and decides to marry her. Sameer and his father discover that the shop manager is an embezzler, so he fires him, and events unfold.

Love and Youth

1948

Layla The Schoolgirl poster
7.0

The strict lawyer Yusuf receives his orphan cousin Laila at his place after she finishes her studies. She brings a fun and cheerful atmosphere to the palace. Yusuf starts embracing life but he falls in love with an unfaithful woman, and Laila tries to advise her.

Layla The Schoolgirl

1941

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Blow of Fate

1947

Solomon's Ring poster
9.0

Musical from the Egyptian Golden Age of cinema.

Solomon's Ring

1947

1930s · 3 titles