“The Last Minute of Anwar Wagdy: A Painful End to a Great Artist’s Life”

Written by Fouad

Sunday, May 14, 2023 11:47 AM

A painful end wrote the last line in the artist’s life Anwar Wagdywho departed outside the Egyptian lands on a treatment trip after discovering that he had kidney disease, and dialysis was a recent invention at that time. Anwar Wajdi traveled to Sweden in order to undergo it, and he left the world there, but the last hour magazine accompanied his body and documented his trip to Cairo with pictures and was published in May 25, 1955 issue.

The issue includes farewell phrases for a great artist to perpetuate his memory, and it came under the title “The Last Minute of Anwar Wagdy”.“

And it came in the text of the news: The end of the long road, in which Anwar and Jedi traveled on thorns in order to take glory, and Anwar presented his health, youth and happiness in order to reach the summit, and the struggling young man arrived, but he stood at the top without health, youth, or happiness, and the star fell and settled in a wooden coffin away from his homeland !

The pictures were attached to descriptive comments, including: “Anwar and Jedi traveled with vitality and youth in his heart, and he finally returned, but in a wooden box and inside a layer of aluminum and a corpse without a soul.

Dr. Al-Wal, the doctor who tried to save Anwar with an artificial kidney, but it was too late and you see him here next to the machine that failed to save Anwar and Jedi’s life.

As for the legacy of Anwar Wajdi, the magazine revealed that his fortune amounted to:

– A building next to the Egyptian Broadcasting House, which cost 220,000 pounds, and the rent for a two-room apartment is 15 pounds per month, and its monthly income is not less than 1,500 pounds. .

14Films, the most important of which are Laila, the daughter of the poor, Laila, the daughter of the rich, My heart is my guide, Anbar, Isolation of the girls, Jasmine, Fayrouz Hanim, The Night of Henna, The Night of Eid, Qatar dew, and Habib al-Rooh, all of which cost 150,000 pounds. .

– Balance in banks not less than 120 thousand pounds.

– Film factories worth about 40,000 pounds.

Anwar left after he fulfilled his wish to marry the artist, Laila Fawzi, but he lived with her for only 9 months, of which they spent 4 months as a honeymoon in London, Paris and Italy, after which his pain increased from a disease that affected the kidneys, and about the nature of his illness, Laila spoke on the Safa Hour program with the star Safa Abu Al-Saud “was tired of kidneys at a grocery store for a long time. A well-known disease that has a name. His father died from it and all his sisters died from it. Something that arises in the kidneys does not appear on a person except when he grows up. He has 30 or 35. He gets tired and starts to be treated, but the result is that the kidneys are wasting.” And the person cannot live and in those days there is still no dialysis. We traveled to Sweden. There was someone who invented dialysis. He started doing it and died there. I was alone. I got on the plane. I am above and he is below in the coffin.“.