Never on Sunday is a 1960 Greek romantic comedy film starring, written by, and directed by Jules Dassin.
Melina Mercouri plays Ilya, a free spirit seeing life through an idiosyncratic perspective, won by the lover who accepts her as she is.
Jules Dassin as Homer Thrace, classical Greek scholar, who sees Ilya as Galatea and attempts to be her Pygmalion, failing miserably.
Eliza Doolittle by George Luks 1908
Phaedra is a 1962 American-Greek drama film directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his partner Melina Mercouri, after her worldwide hit Never on Sunday.