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She is the beauty of the screen, Maryam Fakhr El-Din, one of the most prominent beauties of Egyptian cinema. She possessed innocent features that gave her other definitions, such as the gentle pigeon.
And the pure angel of cinema, and she entered the world of art and acting at a time when he appreciated the value of refined beauty, so her angelic features qualified her to cross into the hearts of everyone who watched her through the romantic roles of the girl
The innocent, the oppressed and the helpless, and she proved herself in her with merit, until she decided to take her out to various other roles, so she played the role of the traitor, the playful girl, the girl of the night, and others.
Maryam Muhammad Fakhr El-Din was born on January 8, 1933, to an Egyptian father who works as an irrigation engineer, and a Hungarian mother named Paula, whom he met during one of his foreign travels, so she described herself as “the Khawaja farmer.”
She has one full-brother, the artist Youssef Fakhr El-Din. Maryam lived a long period of her bi-religious life, where she grew up with her father, who was a strict and conservative Muslim, and her mother was a devout Christian, but they lived together with each of them adhering to his religion.
After the age of twelve, her father imposed on her not to go out and only go to school, and in one of the press statements, Maryam said: “It was forbidden until I answered the phone, once I answered because there was no one in the house.
He calls, puts the whole phone away.”
Hasna Al-Shasha added that her mother was strict, as she likened her to the “Minister of the Interior”, saying: “I did not take money like the rest of my schoolmates,
And when I asked him, she told me to do something to get her money, so I kept ironing the house’s clothes and taking money.” She also learned self-reliance from a young age, as she often did the housework on her own despite the presence of someone to help her.
She studied at the German school until she obtained a certificate equivalent to the baccalaureate, and she spoke 5 languages: Arabic, English, German, French, and Hungarian. She entered the field of art by chance, when she was seventeen years old.
After she went to take a photo on her birthday, the photographer offered her to participate in a competition organized by the French magazine “Image”, and she won the award for the most beautiful face. That is why photographer Abdo Nasr and director Ahmed Badrakhan contracted with her to participate in her first film, “Laylat Gharam”.
for which she received a thousand pounds in wages.
Her father rejected the idea of spending her from her own money, throughout her stay in the family home, following working in the technical field and receiving high wages, saying: “As long as I was in my father’s house, I was sweeping, ironing, and taking money to live with at home, and my second money is in the bank for a purpose. I get married.”
She married the director Mahmoud Zulfiqar, who is 18 years old, and he was 23 years older than her, and he treated her severely and deliberately insulted and beat her, and took her wages.
And he gives her a small part of it, so she resorted to hiding half of what she gets in her socks, and one day and at the time of his travels, she found the amount amounted to 17 thousand pounds, so she rented an apartment and furnished it and asked him for a divorce, following a marriage that lasted 8 years.
And the fruit of it was her daughter Iman, and she was linked to Shadia until her death, in contrast to her relationship with Faten Hamama, who was tense, as she saw that she was not “the lady of the Arab screen”, saying: “We are not all women.”
3 months following her divorce, she married Dr. Muhammad Al-Taweel, and she retired from art for a while in implementation of his desire, and gave birth to her son Ahmed, but they divorced because of her mistreatment once more following 4 years of marriage, the third marriage
In Maryam’s life, she was one of the Syrian singer Fahd Ballan, as she moved to life with him in Lebanon, and shared several works of art with him, and her husbands treated her most well, but she divorced once more because her children did not accept the idea of marriage.
Her last marriage was to businessman Sherif Al-Fadali, who is 10 years younger than her, but as usual the end was a divorce, and despite 4 marriages, Maryam Fakhreddine never wore a white wedding dress.
Maryam Fakhr El-Din participated in more than 200 films, which is a record, and she had bold statements that angered many of her, as she attacked Faten Hamama, Adel Imam, Youssef Chahine and others,
Mary was not religious because of her dispersion between the religion of her father and mother, but her proximity to Shadia made her search for a method of prayer and ablution, and she began to learn Surat Al-Fatihah and Short Pictures at an old age.
The artist, Maryam Fakhr El-Din, said that due to the duality of religion, she lived all her life without knowing the method of prayer, and she did not arrive one day until a day came and she had a strong desire to establish the imposition of prayer, which made her seek the help of the artist Shadia,
Until he taught her, she sent her the book “The Little Muslim” and she did not understand anything from it, so I was surprised by the late Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy calling her to help her. ablution,
Until she was able to learn ablution and memorize the tashahhud following one of her friends told her the story of the Night Journey and Al-Miraj. Maryam Fakhreddine died on November 3, 2014, at the age of 81.
