Muhterem Nur
Muhterem Nur | |
|---|---|
| Born | Aysel Muhterem Kısa December 31, 1932 |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, pop singer |
| Years active | 1951-present |
| Spouse(s) | Işın Kaan (1961-1963) Müslüm Gürses (1986-2013) |
| Awards | |
Muhterem Nur, née Aysel Muhterem Kısa (December 31, 1932 Manastır, Yugoslavia, today Bitola in Republic of Macedonia) is a Turkish movie actress and pop music singer.
Personal life
She was born as Aysel Kısa on December 31, 1932 in Manastır, then Yugoslavia, today Republic of Macedonia.[1] She lost her 16-year-old mother at her birth, and never knew her father. She was raised by her maternal aunt, whom she called "mother". She was renamed "Olga" as a result of Yugoslavian regime's assimilation campaign. All ethnic Turks and other Muslims in Yugoslavia were forced to adopt Christian names and renounce all Muslim customs.[2]
In her infancy, she emigrated with her family members to Turkey and settled in Tekirdağ, northwestern Turkey. Later, due to financial problems, the family moved in 1942 to Istanbul to live in a small house at Eyüp district.[2]
In the new identity card issued by the Turkish Government, she was named Aysel Muhterem Kısa. She spent her childhood in Eyüp, where she attended the primary school. After finishing the school, she began to work in a factory. Then, she got to know by chance Suzan Yakar Rutkay, a notable female singer and partner of that time's biggest film production company Halk Film. She helped Muhterem Nur step into cinema.[2]
Muhterem Nur made her first marriage in 1961 with Işın Kaan (1937-1992), a journalist and actor. The couple divorced in 1963. She dated with celebrities such as movie directors Memduh Ün and Ümit Utku, violinist Cihat Aşkın, actors Yılmaz Duru and Efkan Efekan.[2]
In 1982, she met Müslüm Gürses (1953-2013), a talented folk singer at that time, during a concert tour in Malatya, where she shared the stage with him. They started a quarrel in the first evening. This became also the beginning of an ever-lasting deep love between the two. The couple got married in privacy following a four-year togetherness on May 5, 1986. Her husband died on March 3, 2013 following a heart bypass surgery he underwent in November 2012.[2][3]
Career
Muhterem Nur debuted in cinema as a background actress in the 1951-movie Yıldızlar Revüsü ("Revue of Stars"). She continued to play in movies as extra earning five times more than she received in the factory. She played as supporting actress in more than twenty movies before she got a lead role in the 1958 movie, Üç Arkadaş, in which she featured a blind girl. In the film directed by Memduh Ün, which became very successful, she shared the lead role with Fikret Hakan (born 1934). Thanks to her baby like face and naive acting artistry, she was rooted suddenly in the hearts of cinema fans, and climbed so the ladders up very quickly.[2]
Despite rising up to main actress roles in a very short time and playing in many movies, Muhterem Nur had difficulties to continue in cinema due to change of the era in movie themes during the period between 1965 and 1967. From 1965 on, she avocationally performed dancing, and from 1967 on took the stage as a singer in low-priced music halls. In 1967, she was jailed for ten days because of unpaid bills. She confessed that once in 1972 she was so destitute, even unable to buy a simit, Turkish bagel.[2]
Returned to cinema, she starred sparsely in movies until 2002. Muhterem Nur is considered as the first and real star of Turkish cinema. She portrayed the ignored and discriminated woman digressing from role of the bourgeoisie woman. She was known as the Yeşilçam's most weeping actress, who at the same time drew tears and made spectators tear handkerchiefs. Even though it is not documented, she is one of the most important female figures of Turkish cinema due to the box office record of her films shot in the 1950s and 1960s.[2]
Works
Television series
- Yuva (1990)
- Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu (1985)
- Denizin Kanı (1978)
Television films
- Bir Akıllı Bir Deli (2002)
- Kuşlu Çorap (1988)
Cinema films
References
- ^ a b "Muhterem Nur" (in Turkish). Sinema Türk. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Muhterem Nur" (in Turkish). Biyografi. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
- ^ "Müslüm Gürses Bir Yaşam Öyküsü". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
External links
- Muhterem Nur at IMDb