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Article: Obituary: Melina Mercouri
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 7, 1994
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Maria Amalia Mercouris (Melina Mercouri), actress and
politician: born Athens 18 October 1920; Member of Parliament
(Pasok) for Piraeus 1977- 94; Minister of Culture and Sciences
1981-89, 1993-94; married 1942 Panayiotis Harokopos, 1966 Jules
Dassin; died New York City 6 March 1994.
MELINA MERCOURI, actress and patriot, was the child of one of
Greece's most prominent political families: her father had been a
cabinet minister; and though it was in defiance of her father's
wishes that she became an actress, she was, in the latter half of
her life, to demonstrate just how enduring had been the influence
upon her of those formative years.
Indeed, her subsequent political prominence - most ...
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