As the election was attended by three film directors , the victory opened her the doors of the Egyptian cinema ; Marco de Gastyne casted her in '' The Mask of Tutankhamun '' ( 1954 ) and Niazi Mostafa for leading role in '' A Glass and a Cigarette '' ( 1954 ) , on which posters she appears with her newly adopted stage name Dalila because , as she explained in 1968 , " it was a very frequent name in Egypt and I liked it a lot . " The third offer was a longer period contract by an Egyptian film producer that she turned down after Gastyne advised her to try her luck in Paris . Thus , Dalila also decided to not represent Egypt on Miss World 1955 , but Egypt did not compete that year because of the Suez Crisis
Miss World 1955
Miss World 1955
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