Mary Boutros Younis was born in 1913 to a Lebanese Christian family in Lebanon.

[1] In 1923 Queeny moved to Cairo with her aunt, actress and film producer Assia Dagher, and started acting in 1929.

[2] Queeny became a popular actress and producer in a pioneering age of Egyptian cinema.

[2] The first films shot at the studios were Om al-Saad, Amirat al-Ahlam (Princess of Dreams) and 'Aoudat al-Gha'eb (The Return of the Departed).

After her husband's sudden death in 1947, Queeny and her son, Nader Galal, continued to run the studios.