The miserable childhood and the difficult life - which the late Egyptian actor Ismail Yassin lived in his early days - makes it difficult to expect that he is the very popular star in the world of monologue and cinema, and his reputation reached kings and presidents as well. Charlie Chaplin the Arabs, "Abu Dhakah Jinan" and "His Excellency".

parade theater

Comedy was not the choice of Ismail Yassin, whose birthday today falls on September 15, as he was born in the city of Suez in 1912.

His difficult childhood after the death of his mother and the cruelty of his stepmother, who was imprisoned for accumulating debts on him after that, leaving Ismail Yassin without money or education;

It prompted him to work as a caller in a textile store, after that he started thinking about professional singing because of his passion and his influence on the musician of generations, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, and indeed he went to Cairo, where his relationship with art began through the theater performance with Badia Masabni, and then worked as a monologist, actor and singer in the Ali Kassar band. His first screen appearance was in 1932 through the movie "Juha and Abu Lawless", but the real breakthrough was in 1939, when Fouad Al-Jazairli nominated him to participate in a small role in the movie "Khalaf Al-Habayeb" in 1939.

Banning his first tournament

In 1942, Ismail Yassin's first opportunity in the absolute championship was through the movie "Omar Wahed", which was renamed "Timrah 6" with director Salah Abu Seif, a film about the repercussions of the Second World War, which produced swindlers and rich fools through 4 People carrying out scams, and Ismail Yassin sang in the movie “Ah Yanny” monologue. At the time, Studio Egypt objected to showing the movie because of the filming period in less than a month, and it also angered the doctors for appearing to participate in the scam operations, which led to the censorship’s refusal to show it, and even In 1991, it was shown for the first time on the occasion of the opening of the National Egyptian Film Festival, after 50 years of filming.

comic hero friend

Ismail Yassin moved to another stage, as he participated in a number of small roles that highlighted his comedic talent, which made him the success partner of a number of heroes, so he presented with Anwar Wagdy "Long Live Sixes", "Friday Night", "The Heart Has One" and "My Heart Is My Guide". And “Oh Ya Harami”, and with Mohamed Fawzy in “Sahaba Al-Amarah”, “Love and Majnun”, “Fatima, Marika and Rachel” and “Saheba Al-Malayem”, and he also formed a successful duo in front of Farid Al-Atrash in 7 films, including “Bulbul Effendi” and “Akher”. A lie", "Come Salim" and "The Melody of My Love".

The late comedian did not enjoy the handsomeness and stereotypical standards of window stars at that time, but he managed to become the most important window star and attract audiences to him. With a strong smile, such as Ahmed Ramzy in "Ibn Hamido", Farid Shawqi in "The Illusion of Ismail Yassin" and Shukri Sarhan in "Al-Satat Ma'arfush Liqubwa".

Abdel Halim guest of honor

Abdel Halim Hafez also appeared as a guest of honor in his movie "Ismail Yassin Police Harbi" with Ahmed Mazhar, and Ismail Yassin sang the song "One Day" so that Abdel Halim and the audience fell into a wave of laughter.

Bold ideas in a comic frame

Although Ismail Yassin did not complete his education;

In his instinct and his artistic intelligence, he was aware of the value of the works in which he participated, so he did not hesitate to present films bearing a progressive intellectual value. In 1950 - and at that time the name of Ismail Yassin was as the first hero in many films - he presented the movie "The Night of Dakhla", which discussed the marriage crisis without Choice, through the character of "Ballabio", who falls in love and uses a matchmaker to discover that he has fallen into the trap of marrying a girl other than his lover.

Ismail Yassin and director Fateen Abdel Wahab were the first to present the issue of male-to-female gender transition in the movie "Miss Hanafi", which discusses in a satirical way the crisis of young people who practice their wrong ideas on women in their family, to turn into a female and live the experience of women and search for their freedom in Life, marriage and other simple feminist demands.

Women's roles

In "The Night of the Dakhla", "Miss Hanafi" and "The Kingdom of Women", Ismail Yassin excelled in embodying the role of women on the screen by performing movement, clothing and accessories, and he succeeded in presenting them without vulgarity in many films, including "Al-Sat Al-Nawa'im" and "Fael Khair", “In a way that made the producers accept to offer these roles to him, but in 1958 the censorship of artistic works warned the producers that it would reject any story in which Ismail appears as a woman, so that the matter would not become apparent, which prompted them to nominate Abdel Moneim Ibrahim instead in the movie “Sugar.” Hanim".

experimentation

The stage of the fifties of the last twentieth century, was the most luminous in the journey of Ismail Yassin, but he did not give up his love for experimentation and presenting various works, so he agreed to present the movie “Journey to the Moon” in 1959, and it was one of the first science fiction films in Egyptian cinema, through A young man and his friend go on a trip to the moon, to precede Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon;

But cinematically.

King Farouk angered

The great fame that Ismail Yassin enjoyed in the forties, fifties and even the sixties made him close to the rulers. One is crazy like your majesty,” which angered the king, and to get him out of the situation, the king’s doctor claimed that Ismail Yassin was suffering from a nervous condition that prompted him to say this and was detained in a mental hospital for a while, but he insisted on leaving after 10 days.

He also angered the king again because of the monologue "My eyes are on us, people of war."

exploit his popularity politically

Contrary to his relationship with King Farouk, Ismail Yassin supported the July Revolution of 1952 from the first day, and donated two thousand Egyptian pounds to support the war effort, and at that time received a letter of thanks from Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Prime Minister at the time, and decided to exploit Ismail Yassin’s great popularity among the various classes The Egyptian people in presenting films that encourage citizens to join the army, through the series of Ismail films “Yassin in the Army” in 1955, whose opening was attended by Gamal Abdel Nasser himself, as well as the film Ismail Yassin in the Police, Ismail Yassin in Damascus, Ismail Yassin Military Police, and others One of the films that bore his name to be the third artist in the history of the Arab world to present a series of films in his name after Shalom and Laila Murad, at the request of the Presidency of the Republic.

Scan his theatrical archive

Ismail Yassin's work in the cinema did not distance him from the theater;

He was one of the most important pioneers of the Egyptian theater, and formed his theater group that bore his name in 1954 with his friend, author Abu Al-Saud Al-Abyari, during which they presented 61 plays, all of which were completely deleted by mistake except for some paragraphs of the play "All the men like this".

Glow out

In the mid-sixties, Ismail Yassin's stardom had begun to decline, especially with his age, and the emergence of a new generation of "comedians" such as the Three Lights Theater Troupes and Fouad Al-Muhandis, and the production of different types of films.

After he was presenting more than 10 works in one year, he became presenting only one or two works per year, and he no longer achieved the same mass success in films such as “The King of Petroleum”, “The Torgoman” and “The Mind and Money”, and at that time he began to suffer from Heart disease, so taxes accumulated on him, and the building he built for himself was seized, and he had to dissolve his theater group in 1966, and he went to Lebanon, where he worked in some films there, with small roles, including “Karam Al-Hawa”, “Knights of Love” and “Meeting Strangers”, and was assigned Sabah has a small role in her Lebanese movie "The Women's League".

Heart attack

Ismail Yassin returned to Egypt again and was tired, and he suffered for a period of paraplegia, and then participated in another small role in the movie “Desire and Loss” to write on “Al-Afish” after Nour Al-Sharif and Hayatem, but the film was shown after his death, as it ended the crisis His long artistic and human journey passed away on May 24, 1972, leaving his only son, director Yassin Ismail Yassin.