Word: samia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign fellow is scragged in due time, but not until the screen has been traversed by sandstorms, scorpions, Tuaregs and an epic cooch in which Samia Gamal, the unfrocked Texan-by-marriage, gongs it around pretty effectively...
Texas Playboy Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, "tired of playing cat and mouse" with his Egyptian belly-dancing wife, Samia Gamal, announced that he was throwing her over for another torso-tosser named Nejla Ates, a 21-year-old Turk. After sparking Nejla between the acts in a Manhattan nightspot, Shep brayed happily: "She has everything-plus castanets." They would marry as soon as he could divorce Samia, who, he predicted, would "flip her lid" at the news. In far off Cairo, Samia got the news but played it cool: "He may want to know that I had a very disdainful smile...
Authorities blocked all ports and airfields in Egypt to stop Dancer Samia ("The Virgin of the Nile") Gamal from leaving the country before she ponies up Egyptian income taxes on the money she earned in the U.S. Reaction came swiftly from her real-estate-rich husband Sheppard ("Abdullah") King in Houston. "I knew they would nab her," he told reporters. "If she's not back by October, I'll fly over and lay siege to Egypt...
Because of "all the things he did to me," Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia ("The Virgin of the Nile") Gamal, a onetime favorite of ex-King Farouk, chucked her husband of 18 months, Houston Real-Estate Heir Sheppard ("Abdullah") King III, and flew back to Cairo. Abdullah, flourishing a telegram ("I shall be praying for you") from Evangelist Billy Graham, followed. After truce talks in her lawyer's office, Abdullah emerged to announce their reconciliation. He had made "concessions," because "show business is in Samia's blood." From now on, he said, it would be all right...
Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, who risked his Texas cotton-fortune inheritance by marrying Egyptian Shimmy Dancer Samia Gamal, brought his bride home to Houston to meet Mama for the first time. All went well. Nervous Samia got a hearty hug from her mother-in-law, who said, "I think she's charming...