2023-05-14 07:00:00
Saeed Al Shahat
Sunday, May 14, 2023 10:00 AM
The writer and poet Kamel El-Shennawy was on his way to one of his friends, and with him the artist, Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab. He pointed to an elegant villa and said to him: “This villa was bought by the late Anwar Wajdi before his death, and he prepared it for his home and died before he set foot on it,” as he mentions in his book “Leaders and Artists.” And writers.”
Al-Shennawy adds that in the evening he met the writer, critic and author Jalil Al-Bandary, and learned from him that he was collecting information about Anwar and Jedi, and “Al-Bandary” told him that the building in which Anwar and Jedi paid most of his wealth, and attracted the eyes of envious people to him, he did not enter it, and it is a complete building. Despite the building and the villa, however, when he died, his body remained on the sidewalk under the guard of an employee of his named “Leon”, after he went to his office and found it closed, and he went to his house and found it also closed, and in the morning “Leon” rode a cart carrying the body to the graves, and he hardly The family of the deceased arrived at the cemetery until someone came to them saying that the representative of the estates had arrived at Anwar’s office, so his family left the cemetery and returned to his office to meet him.
The artist Anwar Wagdy died on May 14, this day, 1955, at the age of 51, “born in 1904.” His death was in Stockholm, Sweden, to which he traveled for treatment at a doctor who invented a dialysis device, and was the first of its kind in the world, but there his condition worsened and he lost his sight. And he returned a body accompanied by his wife, the artist, Laila Fawzy, and according to Al-Ahram on May 5, 1955: “He offered three quarters of his wealth to the doctor if he saved his life.”
“His endings were a deep drama for an artist who did not live long, but he was an exceptional filmmaker, composing, directing, producing, acting, designing propaganda, and discovering new faces,” according to Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan in his book “A Picture with Anwar and Jedi,” and “he lived poverty, deprivation, hunger, and then the deprivation of play.” With gold, and his life was the story of the struggle of an adventurous young man who landed on Imad El-Din Street while he did not possess anything from the wreckage of the world, neither the name nor fame nor money nor anything else but a strong will, patience and a specific goal that he tried to reach, and whenever he was able to reach a goal, he sought an even greater goal He achieved all his goals, money, fame and everything,” according to Jalil Al-Bandari in his article “Anwar Wajdi… Comparisons of Imad Al-Din Street..and how did he become a millionaire?”, in “Akher Sa’a” magazine – May 18, 1955.
In his article, Al-Bandari reveals the artist’s journey through his own confessions: “He told me memories of the delicious black days he spent on Imad El-Din Street. One of his fellow extras in the Ramses Theater, and if he does not find anyone among them who can lend him, he is forced to lock his jacket buttons and politely click on Hussein Riad, or Ahmed Allam, to ask for the tram fare.
Al-Bandari mentions: “The first goal he set for himself was to stand on stage, even in the role of extras, so he joined the Ramses Theater, he was standing behind the scenes to monitor the movements and residences of Youssef Wehbe, Aziz Eid, Abbas Fares, Fattouh Nashati and other giants of the stage, he used to borrow Al-Qarsh was drafted to invite one of his senior teachers to the café, and he deliberately sat with the great actor on the sidewalk of the café, so that his fellow extras would see him while he was sitting with one of the gods of Imad El-Din Street.
He spent a long time before Youssef Wahbi allowed him to stand on stage in the role of the silent extra, and he was able, with his lightness, to penetrate the hearts of the gods of the Ramesses theater. Next to one of the doors, he does not speak, does not move, and cannot scratch. Then, in the next play, he was assigned a more dangerous and greater role, which is the role of the servant who says: “Who is at the door, O feared one?”
A monthly salary of three pounds was decided for him, and he kept climbing the ladder step by step until Youssef Wehbe assigned him a short role in a movie, so he drew attention to him, then he began to play the role of the evil boy who plots pranks for the hero of the movie, and he succeeded in playing these roles with unparalleled success. And his wages continued to increase from ten pounds to twenty to fifty, until he reached one thousand pounds per role.
Cinema has become his world in which he travels and wanders, he became its first girl for many years, and during his glow in it he married three times, the first to Ilham Hussein, the second to Laila Murad, and the last to Laila Fawzi, and with his artistic successes his financial wealth was rising to put it in building a building, mentions Al-Bandari said that the last time he met him, he asked him about the date of filming his next movie, and he replied: “I want to live. I spent half my life searching for a living, and a quarter of my life producing films, and now I want to work in building production. ».
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