As the election was attended by three film directors, the victory opened her the doors of the Egyptian cinema; Marco de Gastyne cast 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.