This blog is about photos and images taken or related to the Iranian film Marjan (1956). It was the first film made by an Iranian filmmaker Shahla Riahi. She was a theater and cinema actress who strated her professional career as an artist a decade earlier.
She was encouraged by her husband Ismail Riahi to join the world of theater in Tehran since he thought that Shahla was an exceptionally attractive and talented woman.
I found this photo in a film magazine published in early 1950s in Tehran together with an interview.
In Iran we know Shahla Riahi mostly as an actress. Marjan was the only film she directed and because the producer imposed scenes of song-and-dance from a cabaret dancer on her film, she abandoned film-making.
In Iran we had seen her mostly as an elderly woman , so this kind of image from her youth is very rare and surprising :)
