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Word: mercouris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...average Hollywood feature, Sunday has been playing to packed houses in Paris since last May. The title song of the picture is one of Europe's top tunes these days, and for her work as the leading lady-of-the-evening Greece's Melina (Stella) Mercouri was proclaimed 1960"s best cinemactress at the Cannes Film Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1960 | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...afford to pay an actor to play the part") is an intellectual Boy Scout from Middletown, U.S.A., who takes a trip to Greece in the wide-eyed expectation that in the cradle of Western philosophy he will "find the truth." He finds instead a warmhearted, disrespectful prostitute (Actress Mercouri) who tumbles only for the men she likes, charges only what they are willing or able to pay, and never does business on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1960 | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

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