Acting
Nov 9, 1927
Wadi Chahrour, Lebanon
Sabah
Acting
Biography
Sabah was a Lebanese film actress and singer. Sabah was among the first Arabic singers to perform at the Olympia, Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. She is considered one of three Lebanese icons, along with Fairuz and Wadih El Safi. She was an actress and producer, known for Wahabtak Hayati (1956), Sharia el hub (1958), and The Temple of Love (1961). She was previously married to Rushdi Abazah, Wassim Tabbara, Anwar Mansi, Baligh Hamdy, Nagib Shammas, Ahmed Farag, Joe Hammoud, Fadi Lebnan, Prince Khaled Bin Saud Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, and Youssef Chaban. She died on November 26, 2014 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Feature Films (84)
A naive man Mahrous from Upper Egypt arrives in Cairo meets a fraudster. The fraudster feels that Mahrous has reassured him that he can sell him the famous green threshold square
The Green Doorstep
Featuring a tour-de-force performance by sour-faced Abd us-Salim in-Nabulsy as the puffed-up Professor Hamdi, 'the greatest of all scientists, a modern-day Edison, and the overlooked inventor of nasal batteries and youth elixir', whose latest scheme involves projecting the mind beyond the body.
Welcome to Love
Dr. Raafat does not care about his young wife, Samiha, as much as he cares about reading and following the works of the famous novelist, the monk of thought. So the wife decides to search for the monk himself for the secret of his popularity and his possession of all her husband’s senses, but soon she, in turn, becomes one of his enthusiastic students, and when she fails to flirt with him and seduce him, she decides to start... To write a story inspired by her life.
Alribat Almuqadas
Salim is a simple farmer who loves Bedour and wants to marry her. He comes across a letter that he thinks is written to his lover, but it turns out that it's written by Bedour whom Ghawar loves and he returns from overseas with a pearl necklace for her.
The Pearl Necklace
Souad is in love with the daughter of one of the merchants (Ahmed), who works for her father, but her father forces her to marry the teacher (Sayed), so she marries him, but she suffers a lot in her married life, but as fate would have it, her husband is involved in an accident while he is travelling.
Qalby Yahwak
A swindler and dancer plans to steal the necklace of the artist Sabah by making an Ad for an international band roaming the East to get to her. Hassan is drawn to the Ad and claims to know Sabah so he join the band.
Oriental Nights
Wajih Bey (Abdul Salam al-Nabulsi) is a very rich man who has everything, but he lacks happiness. His assistants try to make him happy in any way by bringing in great singers (Fahad Ballan - Najah Salam - Sabah) or dancing parties. He goes out to the street dressed as a Roman, so he is suspected of his mental faculties and imprisoned in a prison. So he hopes for poverty for the sake of happiness. He lavishes his assistant's fiancé, Amal Al-Faqir, with money and appoints him with him in the company. He meets Suhair, and and she changes his life.
