Unknown Shamadan Dancer 1966 Al Zawj Al Azeb

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From the 1966 film al Zawj Al Azeb (The Bachelor Husband) starring Farid Shawki and Hind Rostum. The film is about a man who maintains four wives, and habitually divorces one of them so that he can marry a new one. In the beggining of the scene three of his wives are sitting together planning a strategy to prevent him from divorcing any of them. He has recently divorced a fourth wife and has married Hind Rostum's character instead. The husband (played by Farid Shawki) walks in and finds that his wives are quite hostile towards him because of it. One of the wives (the dark haired one in the flowered dress) is played by dancer Naemet Mokhtar. Naemet doesn't have a dancing part in this film. In the next scene the husband has gone to a sha'abi bar for a drink and to get away from his vengeful wives. The dancer with the shamadan is unamed in the film credits. The singer is Mohamed Taha. One of the men sitting at the table (played by actor Mahmoud el Melegi) happens to be in love with one of Farid Shawki's wives, so he tells his friend sitting with him to get up and pay the singer and ask the singer to start teasing Farid Shawki about his four wives. The singer quickly changes his lyrics and begins to taunt him and laugh at him, making him look like a fool for having four wives instead of one. As a result, Farid Shawki becomes angry and a bar fight quickly breaks out.