Word: mercouris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Summer. As the faithful friend, longtime Svengali, and now the husband of Melina Mercouri (they were married last May), Director Jules Dassin periodically attempts to trap some of her wild Greek energy on film. His tempestuous Trilby, in her sixth Dassin movie, proves just one thing: the family that plays together does not alway make a Never on Sunday...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). The dramatic changes in human personality brought about by the stress of war are vividly portrayed in Carl Foreman's 1963 epic, The Victors. The cast: Vincent Edwards, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, George Hamilton, Elke Sommer, Peter Fonda, James Mitchum and Senta Berger...
Other 1966-67 marquee names that will ring a bell and, as the producers calculate, the cash registers: John Raitt in A Joyful Noise; Vivien Leigh in Love and Other Games; Melina Mercouri in Never on Sunday; and Menasha Skulnik and Molly Picon in Chu Chem, a cynically commercial concoction billed as "a Zen Buddhist-Hebrew musical...
Despite doggedly second-line direction, A Man Could Get Killed is almost salvaged by the gravelly glamour of Melina Mercouri, the resident adventuress who somehow plays every role as though she has just been ordered to quit port on the next steamer. Melina first appears in funeral garb, crying into her former paramour's bier while one black-olive eye winks out a thinly coded message to Garner. When her friends are in trouble, Melina growls: "Try the harbor master; he is in love with my aunt." When a search party orders her to take everything off, she starts...
Married. Melina Mercouri, 40, who makes a virtue out of vice (Never on Sunday, Topkapi); and Director Jules Dassin, 54, her constant companion for ten years; both for the second time; in Lausanne, Switzerland...