- Directed by her husband Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, she appeared in "On ne badine pas avec l'amour" at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, in "Les Caprices de Marianne" at the Baden-Baden Theater and in Purcell's opera Fairy Queen at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.
- From 1951 she appeared in leading and supporting roles in many German and Austrian films. Again and again she embodied the mysterious, exotic beauty.
- In 1982 she directed her first television film "Abenteuer aus dem Englischen Garten", based on Marieluise Fleißer. As a television director, she made sophisticated literary adaptations. In 1982 she staged the German premiere of Catherine Hayes' "I will always long for you, my mother", at the Studiotheater in Munich and in Bern "Biografie" - a play by Max Frisch.
- She was the daughter of a Lebanese linguist father and a German-language-teaching mother from Düsseldorf.
- Saad appeared in an early 1966 episode of the American television espionage series Blue Light. It was edited together with three other episodes later in 1966 to create the American theatrical film I Deal in Danger, which includes her appearance.
- Saad played Irma La Douce in 1961 in the German premiere of the musical of the same name alongside Harald Juhnke at the Theater Baden-Baden and in the same role in 1962 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.
- Margit Saad was a German actress who worked largely in German film and television, with occasional English language appearances.
- Saad worked as a journalist, conducted interviews with the writer Grete Weil and Bob Wilson, among others, and wrote portraits of Simone Jürgens, the French singer Suzy Solidor and Marieluise Fleißer.
- From a young age she played the piano and harmonium, later taking violin lessons. After graduating from high school in 1947, she began an apprenticeship in ceramics, which she gave up after a year and a half to attend the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich from 1949 to 1951.
- In 1960 she starred in the British drama film The Criminal and followed it up with appearances in other British films and television programmes such as The Rebel (US Call Me Genius, 1961) with Tony Hancock, Playback (1962), an entry in the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series of second features, The Saint in The Saint Sees It Through (1964), and The Magnificent Two (1967) supporting Morecambe and Wise.
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