Mary Queeny

Mary Queeny (; 1913–2003) is the stage name of Mary Boutros Younis, was a Lebanese-born Egyptian actress and film producer.

Early life Mary Boutros Younis was born in 1913 to a Lebanese Christian family in Lebanon. Her mother's cousin was Asaad Dagher, a writer and journalist at the Al-Ahram newspaper. Her first role was in 1929 in the film Ghadat al-sahara (The Desert Beauty), and she went on to star in all of her aunt's subsequent films. (1897-1947) in 1940. Until her retirement in 1982, she produced all of the films he directed. The first films shot at the studios were Om al-Saad, Amirat al-Ahlam (Princess of Dreams) and 'Aoudat al-Gha'eb (The Return of the Departed). After her husband's sudden death in 1947, Queeny and her son, Nader Galal, continued to run the studios. The studios were later nationalised by the Nasser government.

In 1958 she established a film colour processing laboratory, which in 1963 she sold to the Misr Company (later Misr International), which was later acquired by Youssef Chahine and his niece, Marianne Khoury.

Personal life and death Film director Nader Galal is the son of Queeny and Ahmad Galal. Their grandson Ahmed Nader Galal is also a director.

Queeny died on 23 November 2003 in Cairo of a heart attack. She was 90.

Selected filmography Actress Ghadat al-sahara (1929) Pangs Of Conscience (1931) When A Woman Loves (1933) Rebellious Girl (1940)(in which she took her first leading role) Prisoner No 17 (1949) The Seventh Wife (1950) Sacrificing My Love (1951). Women Without Men (1953), the last in which she acted, directed by Youssef Chahine

Producer Dawn of a New Day (1965)