Melina Mercouri

Cacoyannis launched his international film career with Stella 1955, which won him a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and launched the film career of Melina Mercouri as femme fatale and symbol of resistance to the patriarchal code.

Katerina Zacharia: Remembering Michael Cacoyannis Katerina Zacharia 2011

In the meantime, down the road in Piraeus where Melina Mercouri was filmed in 1960 singing a song about her sacred day off from work called Never On A Sunday, the Chinese last June took over full control of the major container dock, pledging to spend $700 million to construct a new pier and upgrade existing docks.

Vanessa Andris: Greece: Never on a Sunday But Bail Us Out on Monday? Defeat or Development Vanessa Andris 2011

In the meantime, down the road in Piraeus where Melina Mercouri was filmed in 1960 singing a song about her sacred day off from work called Never On A Sunday, the Chinese last June took over full control of the major container dock, pledging to spend $700 million to construct a new pier and upgrade existing docks.

Vanessa Andris: Greece: Never on a Sunday But Bail Us Out on Monday? Defeat or Development Vanessa Andris 2011

In the meantime, down the road in Piraeus where Melina Mercouri was filmed in 1960 singing a song about her sacred day off from work called Never On A Sunday, the Chinese last June took over full control of the major container dock, pledging to spend $700 million to construct a new pier and upgrade existing docks.

Vanessa Andris: Greece: Never on a Sunday But Bail Us Out on Monday? Defeat or Development Vanessa Andris 2011

He was married to Melina Mercouri, so you can't feel too sorry for him.

Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2009

If I may say so, Melina Mercouri was as great a global figure representing a revolution in the arts as was Jane Fonda -- and Mikis Theodorakis as great as Pete Seeger, and Costa-Gavras as great as Stanley Kubrick.

Tom Hayden: Greece and the Global Sixties 2009

Instead, the regnant spirit of the New Acropolis Museum's opening turned out to be a departed diva of the silver screen, Melina Mercouri, the actress-turned-politician whose name was repeatedly invoked at the ceremony, and over whose grave in Athens's First Cemetery prayers were said as part of the consecratory observances.

Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 2009

He made some top noirs stateside -- check out Brute Force (1947) and Naked City (1948) -- followed by more great work overseas, after the blacklist forced him out of the country - notably two first-rate vehicles with his real-life spouse, Greek actress Melina Mercouri: Never On Sunday (1960), for which both husband and wife were Oscar-nominated, and the breezy, scenic heist spoof, Topkapi (1964).

John Farr: Why Should Brad and Britney's Issues Dwarf the Legacy of Richard Widmark and Jules Dassin? 2008

Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician, Oxford Union, June 1986.

Restore the Parthenon Marbles 2008

Troy looks like some shattered Balkan country, the women all in black, Cassandra played by Melina Mercouri.

If You Were Gilbert Kaplan... Lisa Hirsch 2008