Word: mercouris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high black stockings, she began work in Carl Foreman's The Victors as a cabaret violinist turned whore, playfully kicking up her heels and pulling her tights smooth over her alert backside. Spurred by competition, she may create the greatest whore since the fall of the Ptolomies. Mercouri and Moreau are in The Victors as well...
Silence & Ambivalence. The professional transition that prepared her to bat in the same boudoir with Mercouri and Moreau began with the part of the pretty young wife of the dissolute count in Luchino Visconti's segment of Boccaccio '70. But the role still had a touch of the old sentimentality in it, since Director Visconti had her cry while she was collecting money from her husband for granting him his marital consortium. Orson Welles has presumably buffed her up further as the nymphomaniac Leni in his still unreleased version of Franz Kafka's The Trial...
Phaedra. Melina Mercouri purrs, snarls and shrieks in this modern-day version of an old Greek myth. Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism. Only Tony Perkins seems somewhat less than believable as Vallone's stepson...
Phaedra. Melina Mercouri purrs, snarls and shrieks in the title role of this modern-day version of an old Greek myth. Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onassisism. Only Tony Perkins, as Vallone's stepson over whom all the trouble brews, seems not quite believable. Director Jules Dassin has sought to bring off cinematic high tragedy in a contemporary setting...
...Scene: Vallone, already torn with grief over the ship disaster, hears Mercouri's declaration, summons Perkins into his office. In a rage he sweeps the objects on his desk to the floor, slaps him viciously again and again, slashing Perkins' face with his ring. Vallone: ''Get out of Greece! Carry my curse wherever you go!'' Perkins, leaving, with blood covering his face: "I loved...