A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
سعاد عبد الله
Birthplace:
Basra, Iraq
Born:
March 7, 1944
Died:
March 23, 2014
Saad Abdallah, born in Basra in 1944, gained fame in the mid-1970s. One of her most famous songs is "Ana Al-Masekina." In addition to being a singer, she is an actress who participated in numerous TV series and films in the 1970s and 1980s. She was married to the artist Hussein Nama, but they separated. Later, she married the artist Riad Ahmed, from whom she also separated. She had a son and a daughter from her second marriage. She passed away after a battle with cancer on Sunday, March 23, 2014, in Baghdad.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.