Melina Mercouri
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Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and
Mercouri in 1982
Mercouri in 1962's Phaedra
Mercouri in 1985
Athens Metro Acropolis station. Melina's photograph is on the right.
Jules Dassin
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Julius "Jules" Dassin was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist, he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, where he continued
Melina Mercouri
…Zorba the Greek (1964). The motion picture received special praise at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, where she met expatriate American film director Jules Dassin, with whom she would share not only her career, but also her life. Their first professional pairing was He Who Must Die (1957). Other films by Dassin…
Dassin in 1970
Dassin with his son Joe Dassin in 1970
Joe and Jules Dassin with Beatrice Launer in Paris in 1970