Haydée Tamzali

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Haydee Tamzali

Haydée Samama Chikly Tamzali (23 August 1906 – 20 August 1998) was a Tunisian actress, writer, and filmmaker.

Early life

Haydée Chikly was born in 1906, the daughter of Tunisian Jewish filmmaker Albert Samama Chikly.[1] Her mother was Bianca Ferrero, an Italian-born woman from Savoy.[2] Tamzali's paternal grandfather, David Samama, was a banker of the Bey who established a banking institution that would later become the Bank of Tunisia.[3]

Career

Albert Samama Chikli, father of Haydée Tamzali

Haydée Chikly worked with her father from girlhood.

fiction film made in Tunisia. They followed this work with another silent drama in 1924, Ain el-Ghezal (The Girl from Carthage), also starring Haydée Chikly, in a story she wrote "to show how badly women were treated when they were just sold off with an arranged marriage into a man's world."[5]
The younger Chikly also took a turn at film editing and hand-coloring in her father's employ.

Haydée Chikly also appeared in Rex Ingram's The Arab (1924), but her father did not permit her to relocate to Hollywood to pursue an acting career.[6][7]

In 1996, Haydée Tamzali appeared in the film A Summer in La Goulette, by Férid Boughedir.[8]

Private life

As an adult, Haydée Tamzali married, raised two children, lived in Algiers and Paris, and wrote a cookbook of North African cuisine, La Cuisine en Afrique du Nord.[9][10]

In 1929, Haydée married the Algerian Khellil Tamzali and became Haydée Chikly Tamzali. She left Tunisia for Algeria where she continued to write. She was active in the civil society, becoming President of Social Works, Secretary of the Red Cross, and President of the League Against Cancer. She wrote many short stories and articles for the Tunisian national newspaper La Presse, as well a book in 1992 composed of true stories about the past called Lost Images.[11]

Filmography

  • Zohra (1922)
  • Aïn el Ghazal/La Fille de Carthage (1923)
  • The Arab (1924)
  • Un été à La Goulette (1996)

Works

  • Images retrouvées, 1992
  • La cuisine en Afrique du Nord : 444 recettes tunisiennes, algériennes et marocaines dont 33 couscous, 1999

References

  1. ^ Luke McKernan, "Albert Samama Chikly" Who's Who of Victorian Cinema (revised July 2015).
  2. ^ Giulia Echites, "Visionario Chikly, portò il cinema (e la bicicletta) agli africani" la Repubblica (July 11, 2015).
  3. ^ "Haydée Chikly". Columbia University. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  4. Newspapers.com Open access icon
  5. ^ Lyn Julius, "Pining for La Goulette" Jewish Quarterly 199(Autumn 2005).
  6. ^ Grace Kirschenbaum, "Reading Food: Eating in Tongues" Los Angeles Times (November 8, 1990).
  7. ^ "Profile of Haydée Chikly". Women Film Pioneers Project. Retrieved 2020-02-29.

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