''The Small Millionaire'' ( arz, المليونيرة الصغيرة,

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Al-Millionairah al-Saghirah) is an Egyptian 1948

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed and written by Kamal Barakat. It stars

Rushdy Abaza Rushdy Saiid El Bughdady Abaza ( arz, رشدي سعيد البوغدادي أباظة) (3 August 1926 – 27 July 1980) was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was considered one of the most charming actors in the Egyptian film industry. He ...

and Faten Hamama.

Plot

A beautiful, young lady falls in love with a

pilot officer Pilot officer (Plt Off officially in the RAF; in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly P/O in all services, and still often used in the RAF) is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countri ...

and wants to marry him, but her grandmother, of a

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aristocratic family, doesn't concur and would not allow her to marry the man. One of the family members tries to convince the grandmother to accept this. The grandmother dies and the woman inherits some of her wealth. Her lover becomes hesitant towards their marriage, thinking everybody might assume he married her for her wealth. She convinces him that this is not true and trusts him and loves him, so they marry each other.

Cast

* Faten Hamama as the young woman. *

as the pilot officer. * Mary Munib *

Fouad Shafiq Mohamed Fouad Shafiq, more commonly known by his stage name Fouad Shafiq or Fouad Shafik (1899–1964) was an Egyptian actor. Early life Shafiq was born "Mohamed Fouad Shafiq" on 13 October 1899, in Cairo, Egypt. His father was an Egyptian of Tur ...

References

Film summary
Faten Hamama's official site. Retrieved on 27 December 2006.

External links

* 1948 films 1940s Arabic-language films 1948 drama films Egyptian drama films Egyptian black-and-white films {{1940s-drama-film-stub