The great artist Anwar Wagdy was one of the most important Egyptian filmmakers, acting, producing and directing, and he was endowed with great intelligence and artistic and administrative talents that made his star rise and transform from poverty to rich and from a small compars in the Ramses troupe to the largest producer in Egypt, and Anwar Wagdy, who was born in 1904, was always busy With cinematic development, when he was kidnapped by death after a journey of illness in 1955 before he was over the beginning of his fifty years and without having children, he found in his apartment what confirms that he had been planning artistic works for years to come, including international films.
In 1957, with the passage of the second anniversary of the death of Anwar Wagdy, Al-Kawakeb magazine published an article in which it indicated that the second anniversary of the death of one of the largest film producers and makers passed without anyone remembering him except for his wife, Laila Fawzi, who was at odds with his family and the rest of his heirs, so she was satisfied with commemorating the memory with some of her relatives. Ayat of the Qur’an and did not go to his grave for fear of colliding with his relatives.
Al-Kawakeb referred to what the heirs found among the possessions of Anwar Wagdy in his apartment after his death, as they found 20 cinematic stories that he bought before his death, planned to be presented within five years, with 4 films per year without being in his expectations that death will kidnap him before he fulfills his plans.
During the last years of his life, Anwar Wagdy traveled more than once to Italy and sat with Italian filmmakers and talked with them about Egyptian cinema in preparation for producing joint films, so that after his death, one of the Italian film makers visited Egypt and asked Marie Queenie about Anwar and my grandfather and collapsed in tears when he knew that he had died. , Confirming that he was planning a huge joint Italian-Egyptian movie with Italian companies.
Anwar Wagdy was also preparing to produce a color film starring Farid Al Atrash and Laila Fawzy, and he talked with Farid about the project, but he left before it was completed.
Thus, Anwar Wagdy, who presented a lot to Egyptian cinema, passed away before achieving all his dreams, and this is how the world is.
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