But if you take an American husband, you make the wife rich." "It feels better to care about other people's interests -- to be involved." Among her successes were the impetus given to cultural activity in the provinces, while she most regretted her inability to win a greater share of state budget for the arts. She joined forces with Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), and three years later was elected MP in the working-class port city of Piraeus. |  Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1991. Through the 1980's, Miss Mercouri often made headlines because of her obsessive effort to regain for Greece the Elgin Marbles of the Acropolis.

Melina's greatest dream as a politician was the return of the marbles of the Parthenon, known as the Elgin marbles, back in Greece. Are you sure you want to submit this vote?

Later Miss Mercouri was to become the first woman to hold a Senior cabinet post "Minister of Culture" in the Greek government. comment to show the world that Melina is remembered. His disappearance was reported to the police on September 3rd - almost a month later.

"I like myself better now," she said in 1978.

It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss Community Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Academy Awards nominees who were nominated for a performance in a foreign language. The most famous Greek producer Filopoimin Finos had never accepted her as a film star, because of her big mouth. The main goal of the foundation was to push for the creation of …
Melina Mercouri died of lung cancer in New York City, on March 6, 1994. By chance Mercouri was playing in a musical on Broadway when that infamous band of colonels staged their coup d'etat against Greek democracy in April 1967. No hype, just the advice and analysis you need, Register with your social account or click here to log in. He had been inspired by President Kennedy's inaugural address to apply for admission. After three years of preparation, she went on the Athens stage, won increasingly big parts and was acclaimed in the leading roles in "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." She co-starred with the excellent Ellen Burstyn in Jules Dassin's A Dream of Passion (1978), but as Melina's biography by Frida Bioumpi notes Melina did not enjoy her collaboration with the Oscar winner actress.

His gallantry, however, became ever more tight-lipped as Mercouri's campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles (she contemptuously rejected the term 'Elgin Marbles') gathered pace, even though she insisted her quarrel was with the British government, not the British Museum. Ran for mayor of Athens in 1990, but was defeated. A member of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist movement. 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.