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4 days ago · Melina Mercouri. At the Cannes Film Festival in May 1955 he met Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and wife of Panos Harokopos. At about the same time, he discovered the literary works of Nikos Kazantzakis; these two elements created a bond with Greece.
Jun 28, 2024 · 2025 marks the 40 th anniversary of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) programme. It was in 1985 that the Greek singer, actor, activist and politician Melina Mercouri, who was then Greece’s Minister of Culture, and her French counterpart Jack Lang came up with the idea to unite Europeans through culture by designating an annual City of Culture, the first being held in Athens that year ...
Jun 16, 2024 · Never on Sunday (1960) This Greek film stars Melina Mercouri as Ilya, a free-spirited woman of the night who finds her way of life challenged by classical scholar Homer (Jules Dassin, who also wrote and directed the film).
3 days ago · Greek film actress (1925-1994)
18 hours ago · Also emerging in this period were artistically avant-garde films of ancient myths or dramas retold in modernized settings. These include American director Jules Dassin’s Phaedra (1962) (trailer here), and A Dream of Passion (1978) (images here), both updates of Greek tragedies starring his wife, Melina Mercouri; Russ Meyer’s Faster ...
Jun 29, 2024 · The Westerns Duel at Diablo (1966) with Sidney Poitier and Hour of the Gun (1967) with Garner as Wyatt Earp and Jason Robards Jr. as Doc Holliday followed, as well as the comedy A Man Could Get Killed (1966) with Melina Mercouri and Tony Franciosa.
3 days ago · Beautiful thief Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) and criminal genius Walter Harper (Maximilian Schell) put together a plan to steal an emerald-encrusted dagger from Istanbul's Topkapi Palace. As part of their crew, they hire small-time hustler Arthur Simon Simpson (Peter Ustinov) to act as their fall guy.
