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Melina Mercouri: Academy Award
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Mercouri's energetic performance took it to greater heights than it deserved. She won Best Actress honors at the Cannes Film Festival. Despite being condemned by the Catholic Church's Legion of Decency for its positive view on prostitution, the low budget, black and white shot film made for a mere $125,000 made millions. Perhaps back then the film seemed more relevant than when viewed today, for it now seems too tame for all the controversy it caused during the Academy Awards for receiving five Oscar nominations for what critics of it said was such a questionable subject matter and they ... resented that a foreign made film received so much attention over the Hollywood films.
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A dense American with delusions of being an intellectual travels to Greece, where he meets a pragmatic prostitute (Melina Mercouri) whom he attempts to transform into a cultured lady. Greek diva Mercouri won a Best Actress Award at Cannes for her saucy role. Read More
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It's hard to resist the charms of Mercouri's Cannes award-winning performance when her smile and laughter light up the screen. The film is steeped in Greek culture and nowhere more so than in Manos Hadjidakis' evocative score.
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