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Wife from the Street (1960)

Wife from the Street poster
Original title
زوجة من الشارع
Directed by
Hassan el-Imam
Genre
drama film
Country
Egypt
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A singer working in a nightclub wants to marry a doctor but he refuses. She then marries another man and moves to his village home, leaving her job. Her new mother-in-law had hoped for a different bride, and the doctor who rejected her later becomes involved with the family again.

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What happens

زوجة من الشارع فيلم مصري عرض عام 1960، إخراج حسن الإمام وبطولة هدى سلطان وعماد حمدي وكمال الشناوي. دلال مطربة تعمل في كباريه، يرفض الطبيب حسين الزواج منها إلا أنها تتزوج من مصطفى الذي يعرض عليها الزواج، تترك عملها لتقيم معه في العزبة، يكون زواجهما مفاجأة لوالدته التي كانت تمني نفسها بزواجه من ابنة خالته، تحدث لوالدة مصطفى حادثة ويتولى علاجها حسين الذي كان عشيقًا لدلال، يتقدم حسين لخطبة ابنة خالة مصطفى..وتتوالى الأحداث (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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