Melina Mercouri
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| Name: | Melina Mercouri | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 73 (October 18, 1920 -March 6, 1994) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 2.859 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Melina Mercouri (Greek: Μελίνα Μερκούρη), born as Maria Amalia Mercouri (October 18, 1920, Athens, Greece – March 6, 1994, New York City, New York) was a Greek actress, singer and politician. As an actress she made her film debut in Stella (1955) and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, and she was also nominated for an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two BAFTA Awards. A political activist during the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, she became a member of the Hellenic Parliament in 1977 and the first female Minister for Culture of Greece in 1981. Mercouri was the person who, in 1983, conceived and proposed the programme of the European Capital of Culture, which has been established by the European Union since 1985. She was a strong advocate for the return of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Parthenon and are now displayed in the British Museum, to Athens. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melina Mercouri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. |
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Movies
A Man Could Get Killed
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smokingsides
Lights a cigarette and passes it to her co-star. |
Pote tin Kyriaki
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smokingsides
Smokes in three scenes. In the first, she asks her hesitant would-be lover for a cigarette, accepts a light with a double pump and then places it to his lips for him to take a puff before taking two more drags herself. She takes a single drag before flicking her cigarette away in a harbour scene. The third scene shows a drag and exhale, then a 40-second dangle with no-hands puffing, followed by a drag with a deep open mouth inhale. There is more dangling, then she holds as she sings the title song and dangles and puffs as she dances |
The Victors
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smokingsides
0:57 - JM lights, holds nicely, takes two little drags. 1:15 - RS, 5-6 nice drag-exhales at table. 1:24 - RS places cig in mouth; later, a drag-exhale and stubout. Also in this scene, a woman in the bar, cig dangling, vainly awaits a light from George Peppard. 1:38 - MM holds in longshot. 1:40 - MM accepts light, stubout a min later. 1:43 - MM accepts light, small exhale. 1:47 - MM lights, but puts it down. 2:18 - SB declines a light with a shake of her head and lights herself; later a couple little drag-exhales and a stubout. |
Topkapi
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smokingsides
Two drags about 20 minutes in. Later seen taking a cigarette from her cigarette case. |
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