The Egyptian cinema provided a number of stars who influenced the artistic life with their immortal works, but they died penniless. Those stars include the great actor Ismael Yassin, who was one of the richest Egyptians. In the sixties, tax authority confiscated his money to became bankrupt and went to Syria. In Syria, he earned a lot of money and returned to Egypt to form a new theater group, but did not succeed and returned to bankruptcy again, and died with no money and a grave to be buried in it.

 

The great actor Emad Hamdi, the screen boy in the fifties, was earning large sums of art. The great actress Faten Hamama advised him to save some money, but he did not listen to her. In his late days, he was filming scenes for 20 pounds so that he can live, and died in the case of depression.

For actress Fatima Rushdi, the heroine of "Al-Azima" film, lived in the late days in a popular locanda in the center of the country. When the late actor Farid Shawqi learned of this, he cried and went to her and before her hand and was able to allocate an apartment to her from the state, but she died before living in it.

 

While actress Zinat Sadqi lived in an old house and no one knew that she was alive. When the late President Sadat decided to honor her, a journalist in Rose Al Yousuf searched for her and she rented clothes for the party. When President Sadat learned of her condition, he ordered to allocate a pension for her.

 

Furthermore, actress Mimi Shakib, which in her late days, she did not find money to eat and lived difficult days.