Pictured is a 32" x 44.75" Egyptian poster designed by Marcel to
promote the 1958 Abbas Kamel 126-minute black-and-white film A Gift
from Heaven [rahma min al-sama'] starring Hind Rostom based on
screenplay and dialogue by Abbas Kamel with cinematography by Alvisy
Orphanily. Plot summary: Nabila, the wife of a wealthy man named Megdi
[Imad Hamdi (1909-1984)], died, leaving him alone with his young
daughter. While he was shopping one day he met a woman named Nawal
[Hind Rostom (1931-2011)] who looked and acted like his late
wife. Nawal was a nightclub dancer. His daughter and Nawal became
like mother and daughter, and Magdi's relationship with Nawal helped
him forget his sorrow because of the loss of his wife. As the story
develops Megdi's friend Dr. Monir [Mahmoud El-Meliguy (1910-1933)]
also formed a close relationship with Nawal, who was in fact the
film's "gift from heaven."
