The Lumiere Film Festival paid homage to Greek actress, singer and politician Melina Mercouri this week with a mini-retrospective on what would have been the centenary of her birth. The centerpiece ...

To tens of millions of people, Melina Mercouri was the exuberant star of “Never on Sunday,” the 1960 film that painted such an adoring picture of Greece that it launched a tourist boom. For a long ...

Melina Mercouri, the Greek actress who gained fame in the film Never on Sunday and became a crusader for the arts as her nation's culture minister, died Sunday of complications from lung cancer.