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Leila Mourad (Arabic:) (February 171918- November 211995) was an Egyptian singer and actress.
She is also credited as "Laila Mourad" and "Layla Mourad".

Life

She was born to a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt. Her father, Zaki Mourad ( from Morroco), was also a famous arab musician. Her brother Mounir Mourad was an Egyptian actor.
Dawoud Housni helped her start her career by composing her first song. However, her true discovery was when the prominent Egyptian composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab heard her singing and gave her a role in his film Yahia el Hob in 1938.
A rumor that she visited Israel and donated money there, placed her as a suspect of spying and made some arab radio stations boycott her. She denied these allegations and obtained a document from the Egyptian armed forces exonerating her . Leila Mourad gave up acting by the end of the 1950s and gave up singing after 1973 with a legacy of 1200 songs.

Marriages

Mourad married Anwar Wagdi (1945-1953) and converted to Islam after marriage. After a few years, she divorced Wagdi and married Fatin Abdelwahab, a movie director.

Works

Her famous songs include:

"Ya msafer we nassi hawak"
"Albi dalleli"
"leeh khaletni ahebak"
"Elmaya we el hawa"
"Ya aaz mn Ainy"
"Sanaten wana ahayel feek"
"Etmakhtary".
"El Hob Gameel".
"Monaya fi Korbak"
"Abgad Hawaz".
"Einy Betref", a duet with the Egyptian actor "Naguib AlRaihani".

Her movies include:

Sayedat al-Qitar (Lady on the Train),1953.
Ward el gharam (Flowers of Love),1952.
Ghazal al-banat (Flirtation of Girls),1949.
El Hawa wa el chabab (Love and Youth),1948.
Darbet el kadar (The Blow of Fate),1947.
Kalbi dalili (My Heart is my guide),1947.
Khatem Suleiman (Solomon's Ring),1947.
Leila bint el agnia (Leila, Daughter of the Rich), 1947.
Leila bint el fukara (Leila, Daughter of the Poor), 1946.
El Madi el maghoul (The Forgotten Past),1946.
Shadia al wadi (The Singer in the Valley),1946.
Leila fil zalam (Leila in the Shadows), 1944.
Leila, bint al-madaress (Leila, the Schoolgirl), 1942.
Laila, ghadet el camelia (Leila, Lady of the Camelias), 1942.
Shuhaddaa el gharam (Romeo and Juliet), 1942).
Leila, bint el rif (Leila, the Girl from the Country ), 1941.
Laila momtera (Stormy Night), 1940.
Yahya el hub (Long Live Love), 1938.

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