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An Egyptian actress who was described as ugly and supervised the upbringing of 12 orphans

Ragawat Mansour is an Egyptian actress, born in 1914, from a wealthy family in the city of Aswan.

All her siblings got married and moved away, leaving her alone. She did not get married and people described her as ugly, so she decided to move to Cairo, where she worked cleaning in some shops and homes. She met a film director who was looking for a girl whose beauty level was below average to work with him in a film in the role of an ugly girl. I was happy and agreed and participated in my first work and succeeded in embodying the role of the ugly girl with great success, so the directors took advantage of her and assigned her only the roles of the ugly and unwanted girl. She participated in 14 films, which left her in a bad psychological state and suffered from people complaining about her appearance. She lived next to a religious man who lived with 8 siblings and was married to a widow who had 4 orphans. He was helping his wife raise her children with his siblings, but his wife died, so he proposed to Rajwat, she agreed, and they got married. Shortly after, her husband died, leaving Rajawat with the responsibility of raising 12 orphans. She took responsibility and devoted her life to their upbringing and education. They graduated as teachers, engineers, and doctors, and they did good to her, and every month she stayed with one of her children. In 1993, Rajawat asked her children to visit Mecca to perform the Hajj. She traveled with one of her sons and performed the Hajj, but she died in Al-Haram Al-Madani and was buried in Medina.

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