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Bernard Brumberg " Melina
Mercouri "
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Melina Merkouri or Melina Mercouri
(Greek: Μελίνα Μερκούρη, born in Athens October 18, 1920 and
died in New York March 6, 1994), is an actress, singer and wife
Greek politics.
Maria Amalia Mercouri was born into a family of the great
Athenian bourgeoisie. His grandfather, Spyridon Merkouris, was
mayor of Athens and his father, MP.
She met the American director Jules Dassin in exile she became
the muse. Dassin made the turn in eight films and they married
in 1966. The film Never on Sunday (1960) gives couples a great
international reputation.
For this film, Melina Mercouri was awarded the prize for Best
Actress at Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar.
She began a political career that led him to gradually stop the
film. It was successively MP, Minister of Culture until his
death. She struggled in particular, but without success, for the
return of the Parthenon frieze, in the British Museum.
"Here, hold on a television show in 1972"
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