Katina Paxinou

Katina Paxinou

Born: December 17, 1900
Died: February 22, 1973
in Piraeus, Greece
Katina Paxinou (Greek: Κατίνα Παξινού; 17 December 1900[1]– 22 February 1973) was a Greek film and stage actress.

She started her stage career in Greece in 1928 and was one of the founding members of the National Theatre of Greece in 1932. The outbreak of World War II found her in the United Kingdom and she later moved to the United States, where she made her film debut in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in a few more Hollywood films, before returning to Greece in the early 1950s. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1951. She then focused on her stage career and appeared in a number of European films including Rocco and His Brothers (1960).

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Movies for Katina Paxinou...

A Savage Summer
Title: A Savage Summer
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
In Juan-les-Pins, Serge drops off a hitchhiker, Sylvie, who joins "Théo's gang", a group of students and workers, all young, all broke, improvising their vacations from day to day. Among them, Serge meets Helle, a discreet young girl with whom he quickly falls in love, but whom he can only win over once he's sorted out his many problems with the wrong people.
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Zita
Title: Zita
Character: Aunt Zita
Released: January 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
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The Island of Aphrodite
Title: The Island of Aphrodite
Character: Lambrini
Released: September 1, 1965
Type: Movie
In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.
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Rocco and His Brothers
Title: Rocco and His Brothers
Character: Rosaria Parondi
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: Movie
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: La Roca
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
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The Immortal Land
Title: The Immortal Land
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.
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Mr. Arkadin
Title: Mr. Arkadin
Character: Sophie
Released: August 9, 1955
Type: Movie
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Prince of Foxes
Title: Prince of Foxes
Character: Mona Zoppo
Released: November 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Christine Mannon
Released: November 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
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Uncle Silas
Title: Uncle Silas
Character: Madame de la Rougierre
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
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Confidential Agent
Title: Confidential Agent
Character: Mrs. Melandez
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Maria
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character: Pilar
Released: July 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.